I Know Him So Well

I Know Him So Well is a duet from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus. It was originally sung by Elaine Paige (as Florence) and Barbara Dickson (as Svetlana). In this duet, two women – Svetlana, the Russian chess champion's estranged wife, and Florence, his mistress – express their bittersweet feelings for him and at seeing their relationships fall apart. In 1987, Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy Houston covered in her album Whitney. In 1989, Kenny Loggins and Roy Orbison released as a single called "I Know Her So Well" on the soundtrack album Chess.