Barry White

Barry White took a page out of Issac Hayes' book and made the transition from being an ace arranger and studio musician into a deep-throated solo star. This was White's first No.1 pop smash and featured such chart-topping singles as "You're The First, The Last, The Everything," and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe." White's marriage of sweeping faux cinematic strings, dance-floor (and bedroom) grooves and his should-be-cheesy but is just incredibly cool vocal style all come together for an effort that is supremely joy inducing.

"We got it together, didn't we?" Barry White asks in that husky bedroom voice of his at the
beginning of this newest album. "We've definitely got our thing together, don't we baby?
Isn't it nice? I mean, really, when you really sit and think about it, isn't it really, really
nice?" Well, no, really. White's lush compositions have become dance and make-out
standards -- here, he has turned out five more in what is now an overly familiar... More >

Inspirational Clichés: "doin' our own thing," "different strokes for different folks," "rather fight than switch." Inspirational Emphases: "very important," "very very very very true," "truly truly." Inspirational Epithet: "hope-to-die woman." Inspirational Drum Sound: "thwop." (Grade: B-)