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“It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be,” the duet recorded between Whitney and Aretha Franklin, peaked at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100 30 years ago today (it reached the Top 10 on the R&B/Hip Hop chart). The song appeared on Aretha’s album Through The Storm. Narada Michael Walden produced the album cut and Teddy Riley produced the remix.