Saving All My Love for You Kelley L. Carter of MTV also listed the track on their "Whitney Houston's Top 10 Songs", complimenting the singer for taking an already-recorded song and giving it new life." 'On "The New York Daily News"'s "The 100 Greatest Love Songs", "Saving All My Love for You" was placed at number 79. The song was also on "The Telegraph",s "The 50 Best Love Songs of the 80's", with the authors wrote that, "The song that launched Whitney, invented a newly minted variety of globe-storming soul diva", picking the line, "Though I try to resist, being last on your list/But no other
Saving All My Love for You 'Saving All My Love for You', 'Greatest Love Of All' and 'Hold Me In Your Arms' "are some of the loveliest pop singing on vinyl since the glory days of Dionne Warwick." Sputnikmusic called it "the sexiest, most romantic song on the record." Brad Wete of "Vibe" called it "goliath", writing that the song "was a fresh serving of precocious talent compared to 1985's mildly flavored R&B bluffet." "Los Angeles Times" praised her vocal performance, writing that, "it should mean a cinch Grammy nomination." "Saving All My Love for You" earned Whitney her first Grammy Award for Best Female Pop