"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 that year. The song is perhaps even more well-known for a later version by
Whitney Houston, whose 1985 cover (with the slightly amended title "Greatest Love of All") eventually topped the charts in Australia, Canada and the U.S. in 1986.