Michael Masser

Songwriter/producer Michael Masser first came to fame with “Touch Me in the Morning,” the hit power ballad that he wrote and produced for Diana Ross in 1973. With Gerry Goffin he then wrote the Oscar-nominated Ross movie “Theme from ‘Mahogany’ (Do You Know Where You’re Going To?).” He later wrote for George Benson (the original version of “The Greatest Love of All”) and Neil Diamond (“First You Have to Say You Love Me”) and also wrote the Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson hit “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love.” After Teddy Pendergrass scored in the Masser-penned “Hold Me” duet with newcomer Whitney Houston, he co-wrote three Houston chart-toppers, “Saving All My Love for You,” “The Greatest Love of All,” and “Didn’t We Almost Have It All.”

Key songs in the Masser catalog include “Didn’t We Almost Have It All?,” “Do You Know Where You’re Going To? (Theme From ‘Mahogany’),” “The Greatest Love Of All,” “Saving All My Love For You” and “Touch Me In The Morning.”