Whitney Houston at State Fair Grandstand — September 7, 1986

On September 7, 1986, Whitney Houston brought her meteoric self-titled debut to the New York State Fair Grandstand in Syracuse — a night that found the 23-year-old singer already the biggest new voice in pop, on the road behind an album chasing history. “How Will I Know,” “You Give Good Love,” and “Saving All My Love for You” rang out under the Central New York sky as part of her Greatest Love World Tour. It’s one of the great what-were-the-odds bookings in State Fair history — a generational talent playing a county fair grandstand months before “Greatest Love of All” made her a household name for good.