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"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is the name of a song written by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger. It is featured in the musical Dreamgirls, in which it is sung by the character Effie White. The song is often considered the show's signature tune. The lyrics describe Effie's love, both strongly devoted and defiant. She refuses to let her man leave her behind. She boldly proclaims to him, "I'm staying and ... you're gonna love me."

In 2001, Rosabel remixed the song and released their version (credited as Rosabel with Jennifer Holliday) as a single. It performed well on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. In 2004, Star Search winner Tiffany Evans recorded the song for her debut. On the 2006 TV contest America's Got Talent, eventual winner Bianca Ryan sang this song as her audition. The song is also on Ryan's debut album. The song was recorded in 2006 by Jennifer Hudson for use in the DreamWorks/Paramaount Dreamgirls motion picture adaptation

Lyrics by TOM EYEN
Music by HENRY KRIEGER

And I am telling you
I'm not going.
You're the best man I'll ever know.
There's no way I can ever go,
No, no, no, no way,
No, no, no, no way I'm livin' without you.
I'm not livin' without you.
I don't want to be free.
I'm stayin',
I'm stayin',
And you, and you, you're gonna love me.
Ooh, you're gonna love me.

And I am telling you
I'm not going,
Even though the rough times are showing.
There's just no way,
There's no way.
We're part of the same place.
We're part of the same time.
We both share the same blood.
We both have the same mind.
And time and time we have so much to share,

No, no, no,
No, no, no,
I'm not wakin' up tomorrow mornin'
And findin' that there's nobody there.
Darling, there's no way,
No, no, no, no way I'm livin' without you.
I'm not livin' without you.
You see, there's just no way,
There's no way.

Tear down the mountains,
Yell, scream and shout.
You can say what you want,
I'm not walkin' out.
Stop all the rivers,
Push, strike, and kill.
I'm not gonna leave you,
There's no way I will.

And I am telling you
I'm not going.
You're the best man I'll ever know.
There's no way I can ever, ever go,
No, no, no, no way,
No, no, no, no way I'm livin' without you.
Oh, I'm not livin' without you,
I'm not livin' without you.
I don't wanna be free.
I'm stayin',
I'm stayin',
And you, and you,
You're gonna love me.
Oh, hey, you're gonna love me,
Yes, ah, ooh, ooh, love me,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, love me,
Love me,
Love me,
Love me,
Love me.
You're gonna love me.

JENNIFER HUDSON
Just about every Broadway musical worth its bugle beads has that one signature tune. The one that brings down the house. The one that eventually drones in doctors' offices. The one that you know the name of, or the words to, even if you don't know what show it came from.

Then there is And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going) from Dreamgirls.

Much as when musical whiz kid Michael Bennett staged the Act 1 closer on Broadway back in 1981, the movie version (which expands to 800 screens Monday) of the glitzy showbiz opera about a '60s girl group has its seminal spellbinding moment. The volcanic Effie, dismissed by her soul sisters and Curtis, the man she adores, pleads and wails in protest before she ultimately faces the audience alone and dares them not to love her.

Love her, they do. Even movie audiences regularly break into applause.

"It's so rare to see someone rip their heart out and bang it against the stage," says Paul Wontorek, editor in chief of Broadway.com. "To drop someone all alone on center stage like that shows the genius of Michael Bennett's staging."

On opening night a quarter century ago, then-21-year-old Jennifer Holliday became a theatrical legend, a gay icon of triumph over adversity and, like Effie, often a victim of her own unique gifts, demanding nature and immense presence.

Today, her one-of-a-kind performance continues to haunt: A famous clip from the 1982 Tony Awards broadcast on YouTube that captures all 8½ minutes of Holliday in her stomping Godzilla-like glory has been watched more than 340,000 times since it was posted in February.

"Theater people have always held onto that Tony Awards performance," says Wontorek of the never-equaled live sequence that has been regularly shown in gay bars for years. "Everyone obsesses over that broadcast. They've passed along copies from generation to generation."

And now another Jennifer, American Idol castoff Jennifer Hudson, is on the brink of similar success as she redefines Effie, Hollywood-style.

"I never met anyone who didn't love that song," says Hudson, 25, who first heard it when Will Smith lip-synched along to Holliday on his '90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and has since performed it herself several times.

But not as an actress navigating through And I Am Telling You's tricky hills and valleys. Hudson gets what other singers, who try to blast their way through the volatile ode, don't: "It's not about the vocal gymnastics, but the emotion."

Like athletes attempting the Ironman Triathlon, those with a similar octave range as Hudson and Holliday can't resist the challenge to stretch their vocal muscles. "I know a lot of talented singers who are frustrated they aren't overweight black women," Wontorek says.

Recent attempts that are found on YouTube include American Idol contestants Frenchie Davis and Tamyra Gray as well as Bianca Ryan, the 11-year-old winner of TV's America's Got Talent.

Jennifer Holiday, 1982 Tony Awards
In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie in the original Broadway production, released the song as a single. It was her first single release and it met with great success, topping the Billboard R&B charts and attaining top forty positions on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. In 1983, Holliday won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for the single.

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