Artist: Barry White
Album: All Time Greatest Hits
Genre: Easy Jazz, Soul, Funk, Disco
Label: Mercury
Released: 1994
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Love's Theme
- I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
- I've Got So Much To Give
- Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
- Honey Please, Can't Ya See
- Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
- You're The First, The Last, My Everything
- What Am I Gonna Do With You
- I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To
- Let The Music Play
- You See The Trouble With Me
- Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together
- Don't Make Me Wait Too Long
- I'm Qualified To Satisfy You
- It's Ecstacy When You Lay Down Next To Me
- Playing Your Game, Baby
- Oh! What A Night For Dancing
- Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
- Just The Way You Are
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It took quite a while for a definitive Barry White compilation to hit the market, but All-Time Greatest Hits -- part of Mercury's Funk Essentials series -- finally filled the bill in 1995. Boasting a full 20 tracks from White's heyday of 1973-1978, more than half of which made the R&B Top Ten, All-Time Greatest Hits is easily the most generous single-disc White collection on the market. It includes the edited single versions, not the full-length album tracks, which actually makes for a more digestible introduction to White's achievements. Like his forebear Isaac Hayes, White was not just a deep-voiced crooner, but a talented producer and arranger who'd spent years honing his craft behind the scenes in the industry. And like Hayes, White spent a great deal of time setting up moods on his albums, using lush, sweeping orchestrations to build very gradually to climaxes. (Actually, that probably explains a good deal of his effectiveness.) But White was not simply a Hayes disciple; his swirling productions were less complex than Hayes', but more in tune with the emerging disco sound, which certainly boosted his popularity. Plus, he took full advantage of R&B's new lyrical permissiveness in the wake of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. If his voice was limited, it was also a tremendous asset for the kind of music he recorded -- deep, resonant, caressing, but always suggestively masculine. The total package made White an R&B love-man icon not just for the disco era, but all time. For all but the most dedicated fans, All-Time Greatest Hits is one-stop shopping.
by Steve Huey