How Will I Know (original mix)

~ Recording by Whitney Houston

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.1How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum
  • JP1985-04-01
Arista32RD-31
1.3How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonClub Top 13: 16 Top Hits Mai/Juni ’86Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Top 13 Music-Club42 714 6
1.3How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe BestWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
Arista Records, LLCpem 0122
2.13How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe Greatest HitsWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2000-05-15
  • GB2000-05-15
Arista74321-75739-2
2.13How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe Greatest HitsWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2000-05-15
Arista
2.13How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe Greatest HitsWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • JP2000-05-20
AristaBVCA‐27003, BVCA‐27004
2.13How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe Greatest HitsWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
Arista19075881232
1.6How Will I Know4:34Whitney HoustonThe Ultimate CollectionWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2007-10-29
Arista88697 17701 2
1.6How Will I Know4:34Whitney HoustonThe Ultimate CollectionWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2007-11-05
Arista, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 - Oct 1, 2008)88697188982
1.6How Will I Know4:34Whitney HoustonThe Ultimate CollectionWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
Arista, Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)88697 17701 2
1.1How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum
  • JP2008-03-26
AristaBVCM-35267
1.2How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonNOW That’s What I Call the 80s, Vol. 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2009-06-30
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”), Zomba (imprint)88697 45347 2
1.10How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonP4 FeriefavoritterVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
EMI Norway
2.13How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe Essential Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)88697 82980 2
1.6How Will I Know4:34Whitney HoustonAll Time Best (Reclam Musik Edition)Whitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2011-08-26
Arista88697935202
1.3How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)
1.3How Will I Know4:34Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • US2012-11-13
Arista, RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)
1.3How Will I Know4:35Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • JP2012-12-26
RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)SICP-3762
1.3How Will I Know4:35Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
Arista, RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)88765-41393-2
1.3How Will I Know4:35Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
Arista, RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)88765 41393 2
2.5How Will I Know4:35Whitney HoustonNo.1 80s Billboard HitsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • JP2016-08-10
SICP-4940, SICP-4941
2.1How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonThe Very Best of the Breeze Playlist 2017Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • NZ2017-09-22
1.7How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonClassic 80s Vol. 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)88985486572
2.2How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonNOW That’s What I Call 80s PartyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)CDNNNOW64
2.2How Will I Know4:32Whitney HoustonThe Very Best of the Breeze: Playlist 2017Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), The Breeze (New Zealand radio station)88985487012
1.3How Will I Know4:34Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • US2021-10-29
Arista, RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)19439880601
1.3How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonI Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2021-10-29
Arista, Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)
2.19How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonNOW Yearbook ’86Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2023-02-24
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)CDYBNOW86
2.19How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonNOW Yearbook ’86 (special edition with booklet)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2023-02-24
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)CDYBXNOW86
Promotion
1.1How Will I Know4:36Whitney HoustonWhitney - The Greatest Hits SamplerWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
BMG (the former Bertelsmann Music Group, defunct since 2004-08-05; for releases dated 2008 and later, see annotation)PROCD21131
Bootleg
1.1How Will I Know4:33Whitney HoustonThe Ultimate Best From MeWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation
  • -2011
Pseudo-Release
1.3恋は手さぐり4:35Whitney Houstonオールウェイズ・ラヴ・ユー~ベスト・オブ・ホイットニー・ヒューストンWhitney HoustonAlbum + Compilation

Relationships

engineer and mixer:Michael Barbiero (producer, mixer, engineer, songwriter, collaborator with Steve Thompson)
producer:Narada Michael Walden
bass:Randy Jackson (brother of Michael and Janet)
guitar synthesizer:Corrado Rustici
keyboard:Mary Canty
Yvonne Lewis (keyboard)
saxophone:Premik Russell Tubbs
synthesizer:Preston Glass
background vocals:Cissy Houston
lead vocals:Whitney Houston
arranger:Narada Michael Walden
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Arista Records, Inc. (manufacturing and distribution company, do not add releases here) (in 1985)
recording of:How Will I Know

Related works

How Will I Know

writer:Narada Michael Walden
composer:George Merrill
Shannon Rubicam
publisher:Irving Music, Inc.
later translated versions:心願
is the basis for:Take Me to the Clouds Above