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October 4, 1997 – "The One I Gave My Heart To" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue week of October 4, 1997 at number 24.

The song was released ‎September 16, 1997. In the song's seventh week on the chart it reached its peak at number 9, making it the highest-charting single from the album.

In the same issue week of October 4, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 18.

Eventually the song reached its peaked within the top 10 ten weeks later after its first charting at number 8 on December 6, 1997.

The song also peaked within the top ten on the Rhythmic charts at number 8 on November 15, 1997. On the Billboard Dance charts the song peaked within the top 20 at number 18 on February 28, 1998.

On October 21, 1997 "The One I Gave My Heart To" was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 900,000 copies sold.

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Happy Blessed Birthday to Grammy and Emmy award winning song writer Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956).

Photos in this post are of Aaliyah (and Diane) at the December '97 UNICEF Gift of Song benefit gala was a concert held at Madison Square Garden's Z-100 Jingle Ball in New York City to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the US Committee for UNICEF.

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Rarely Posted image of Aaliyah on the set of "One I Gave My Heart To".

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Rarely Posted image of Aaliyah's beauty in between takes of her hit song "One I Gave My Heart To".

DID YOU KNOW:

Tre' Major, Aaliyah's former hair stylist, revealed during a birthday Clubhouse special that Aaliyah's hair was styled using a leave-out weave piece (from a prior stylist). During the filming of the infamous rain scene, Aaliyah's natural hair became frizzy and unmanageable, leading to difficulties in finding a solution.

Consequently, the entire scene had to be abandoned and reshot, incurring costs amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tre' Major then intervened, styling her hair in a manner that prevented it from puffing up when wet, and subsequently became her hair stylist for future projects.

Years after Aaliyah's passing, fans would be blessed to see unreleased footage of behind the scenes of Aaliyah filming a scene in front of a door. This is one of few scraped scenes - yet, the still photography fans have are from the same exact (scrapped) scene.

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December 10th, 1997

Aaliyah would perform her hit song "One I Gave My Heart To" and even get to share the stage with legendary acts like Celine Dion, Aaron Neville and Taylor Dayne later in the night.

The 1997 UNICEF Gift of Song benefit gala was a concert held at Madison Square Garden's Z-100 Jingle Ball in New York City to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the US Committee for UNICEF.

UNICEF (YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide; headquartered in New York.

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 December 10th, 1997

Aaliyah would perform her hit song "One I Gave My Heart To" and even get to share the stage with legendary acts like Celine Dion, Aaron Neville and Taylor Dayne.

The 1997 UNICEF Gift of Song benefit gala was a concert held at Madison Square Garden's Z-100 Jingle Ball in New York City to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the US Committee for UNICEF.

UNICEF (YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide; headquartered in New York.

Image of Aaliyah backstage with her singers and Diane Warren from @haleyeahmusic All other images from AaliyahPL

“I cherish the few pics I have with Aaliyah. I break them out every year on this day; this one is right before we went on stage in New York, I think."

Emmy Award winning songwriter, Diane Warren, in the background throwing up the 'Peace Sign'. Warren wrote Aaliyah's "One I Gave My Heart To".

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On October 6, 1997, Aaliyah performed “The One I Gave My Heart To”, on The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show.

“I had the pleasure to meet the amazingly talented and beautiful Aaliyah when she was on my show. RIP Aaliyah.” - Keenan Ivory Wayans | @keenenivorywayans

The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show is a late night syndicated television talk show hosted by Keenen Ivory Wayans. The show premiered August 4, 1997, and was unfortunately cancelled in March 1998. In a 2013 interview by the Television Academy Foundation, Wayans expressed displeasure working on the show as he was not given complete creative freedom. His involvement on the show is often teased by his siblings.

It was filmed at Studio 9A, Hollywood Center Studios Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

I’m sure somewhere in the archives, Keenan has a photo of him and Aaliyah behind the scenes on this night..

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October 4, 1997 – "The One I Gave My Heart To" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue week of October 4, 1997 at number 24.

The song was released ‎September 16, 1997. In the song's seventh week on the chart it reached its peak at number 9, making it the highest-charting single from the album.

In the same issue week of October 4, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 18.

Eventually the song reached its peaked within the top 10 ten weeks later after its first charting at number 8 on December 6, 1997.

The song also peaked within the top ten on the Rhythmic charts at number 8 on November 15, 1997. On the Billboard Dance charts the song peaked within the top 20 at number 18 on February 28, 1998.

On October 21, 1997 "The One I Gave My Heart To" was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 900,000 copies sold.