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Forty years ago today (June 23, 1983), 19-year-old Whitney appeared on The Merv Griffin Show and, as they say, the rest is history!! Introduced by Clive Davis, audiences were witness to the performance of someone who would become one of the biggest-selling and greatest voices of all time.