Saving All My Love for You Vocal Performance in 1986. She also won the American Music Award for Favorite R&B/Soul Video for "Saving All My Love for You". The song also entered the list of her best songs. While listing her "25 Best Songs", editors from "Entertainment Weekly" placed the song at number 21, writing that, "The stuff that's been piped into thousands of dentist offices, it was also her first No. 1 hit." BET placed the song at number 7 on their "40 Best Whitney Houston Songs", writing that, "The song has it all: her breathy come-ons, her trademark epic high notes, her delicate runs."
Saving All My Love for You take from Houston, the producer guaranteed her that it would become "a woman's song", meaning that women will feel a special affinity for the song. After the success of her previous single, "You Give Good Love", the label initially didn't think about releasing "Saving All My Love for You" as the next single. When Masser heard that another single besides the song was being considered for the next single, he made a friendly wager with Davis during one of Houston's performance at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. He proposed that if all the women get on their feet when