<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Greatest Love of All" (1) </Td> <Td> "I Always Knew I Had It in Me" (2) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Greatest Love of All" (1) </Td> <Td> "I Always Knew I Had It in Me" (2) </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Greatest Love of All" is a song written by composers Michael Masser (music) and Linda Creed (lyrics). It was originally recorded in 1977 by American singer and guitarist George Benson, who made the song a substantial hit, peaking at number 2 on the R&B chart that year, the first R&B chart Top Ten hit for Arista Records . The song was written and recorded to be the main theme of the 1977 film The Greatest, a biopic of the boxer Muhammad Ali . Eight years after Benson's original recording, the song became even more well known for a version by Whitney Houston, whose 1985 cover (with the slightly amended title "Greatest Love of All") eventually topped the charts, peaking at number 1 in Australia, Canada, U.S. and on the R&B chart in 1986 . </P> <P> The original recording by Benson was released in 1977 in the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Brazil, Netherlands, U.K. and in Thailand, on an extended play (EP). </P>

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