Let's celebrate Barry's first masterpiece '' I've Got So Much To Give ''
The 50th Anniversary Celebration 1973-2023
He’d been working on becoming an overnight sensation for years, and suddenly he was. The dues-paying of Barry White on the fringes of soul music throughout the 1960s all started to pay off, as he started to become a solo star after March, 1973 release, and April 21 chart entry, of I’ve Got So Much To Give. “From 1960 to 1971, I struggled,” he once said. “I was the kid they saw coming, the kid with holes in the soles of his shoes. You could hear me coming two blocks away. That’s how badly my shoes flopped.” But by 1973, R&B fans, and especially female ones, were responding to the bold promise of his new US chart single “I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby.” Next, the album that it was on, I’ve Got So Much To Give, made its, and Barry’s, first showing on the Billboard Top LPs countdown for April 21 that year. Ironically, for an artist who was usually a one-stop-shop in terms of writing, producing and arranging his own material, the album started with a Motown cover. Track 1 on Side 1 was White’s eight-minute version of one of Holland-Dozier-Holland’s classic compositions for the Four Tops, “Standing In The Shadows Of Love.” But after that, it was all White, all of the time, on four new songs, including the full-length version of that new “Little Bit More” hit, which lived up to its name with a running time of over seven minutes. “I’ve Got So Much To Give” itself came in at more than eight minutes. After the first single had run its course, hitting the top of the R&B chart and No.3 pop, that title song gave Barry a No.5 soul hit, and went to No.32 on the Hot 100. The album, meanwhile, was a soul chart-topper, and reached No.16 for Barry in the pop market.
Outstanding spoken intro Bring Back My Yesterday:
What am I supposed to do now?
You're going, I know you're going
You're leaving me, baby - I know, I can tell
What did I do? What did I say?
Why are you doing this?
Baby, I love you - my life is nothing without you
Before, we were so happy together, so much together
I'm not lying, I'm totally mixed up
I'm so damn mixed up
I just can't figure out what went wrong
Won't you give us a chance
Won't you think it over
Baby, please, won't you change your mind
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Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Bring Back My Yesterday
I've Found Someone
I've Got So Much To Give
I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
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A Soul Unlimited Production
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Produced by:
Barry White
Produced and Arranged by:
Barry White and Gene Page
Music by:
Love Unlimited Orchestra
Background Vocals by:
Love Unlimited
℗ 1973 20th Century-Fox Record Corporation lp T-407
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Re-Recorded and Cleaned from vinyl by FM
WAVE 44100Hz HQ Stereo Recording
Funkerman's Hard to Find Beats Netherlands
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WW protected: LPBW1973HTFB
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