<P> In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie in the original Broadway production, released the song as a single . It was her first single release and it met with great success, topping the Billboard R&B charts and attaining top forty positions on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart . In 1983, Holliday won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for the single . </P> <P> "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" was designed as the closing number of Dreamgirls' first act . Holliday's performance of the song, in a style owing much to gospel music singing traditions, was regularly staged to thunderous applause; it was hailed as the highlight of the show in several printed reviews of the musical . In his review of Dreamgirls' opening night performance, New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich referred to Holliday's "And I Am Telling You" as "one of the most powerful theatrical coups to be found in a Broadway musical since Ethel Merman sang "Everything's Coming Up Roses" at the end of Act I of Gypsy" "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" remains Holliday's signature song . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Single by Jennifer Hudson </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> from the album Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture and Jennifer Hudson </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Released </Th> <Td> December 5, 2006 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Format </Th> <Td> Music download CD Single </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Recorded </Th> <Td> The Underlab, Los Angeles: March 2006 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Rhythm and blues, soul </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Length </Th> <Td> 4: 45 (highlights version) 5: 06 (soundtrack version) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Label </Th> <Td> Music World / Columbia </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Tom Eyen, Henry Krieger </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> The Underdogs </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Jennifer Hudson singles chronology </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (2006) </Td> <Td> "Spotlight" (2008) </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (2006) </Td> <Td> "Spotlight" (2008) </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" </Th> </Tr>

Jennifer holliday and jennifer hudson and i am telling you