Cissy Houston. Emily Drinkard. Gospel royalty. She founded the Sweet Inspirations, sang behind everyone from Aretha to Elvis to Jimi Hendrix, and won Grammys in both gospel and r&b categories. But her greatest work might have been raising Whitney -- a daughter who took everything Cissy taught her about phrasing, about control, about the space between notes, and turned it into something the world had never heard. Cissy's solo records -- Think It Over, Be My Baby -- prove the mother had the goods long before the daughter.