Barry White - Gold

Title: Gold Artist: Barry White Release Date: 3/11/2008 Label: Hip-O Records Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 602517581043 Genre: Rhythm & Blues Styles: Soul, Disco, Urban, Smooth Soul Moods: Elegant, Passionate, Romantic, Sensual, Confident, Lush, Sexual, Sexy, Stylish, Joyous, Party/Celebratory Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. I'm Gonna Love You, Just a Little More Baby
2. I've Got So Much to Give
3. Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
4. Honey Please, Can't Ya See
5. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
6. Baby Blues
7. You're the First, The Last, My Everything
8. What Am I Gonna Do with You
9. I'll Do for You Anything You Want Me To
10. Let the Music Play
11. You See the Trouble with Me
12. My Sweet Summer Suite
13. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long
14. I'm Qualified to Satisfy You
15. Midnight and You

1. Love's Theme
2. Baby, We Better Try to Get It Together
3. It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me
4. Oh What a Night for Dancing
5. Playing Your Game, Baby
6. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
7. Just the Way You Are
8. Love Serenade, Pts. 1 & 2
9. Satin Soul
10. It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It)
11. Sho' You Right
12. Put Me in Your Mix
13. Practice What You Preach
14. Come On
15. Staying Power

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Hip-O Records 001063102

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Gold follows a handful of major Barry White compilations released since the '70s, including Casablanca's two-volume Greatest Hits (released in 1975 and 1981, then on CD), the three-disc 1992 box set Just for You, 1995's All-Time Greatest Hits, and 2002's two-disc The Ultimate Collection. Many of the sets in Hip-O/Universal's Gold series amount to reissues of two-disc anthologies released during the early 2000s through labels distributed by Universal, and this one is not an exception -- it's exactly like The Ultimate Collection, albeit with different visual presentation. As any Barry White fan would be quick to tell you, White was so much more than a large, oversexed, deep-voiced novelty. He was a tremendously prolific and gifted songwriter, arranger, and producer. Even without all the albums released under his own name, he'd have quite a legacy with Love Unlimited and the Love Unlimited Orchestra, not to mention his stint in A&R and behind the scenes work with Gene Page, Gloria Scott, Danny Pearson, and Webster Lewis. Gold includes five Love Unlimited Orchestra tracks -- the big guns, like the number one pop single "Love's Theme" and the number one club single "My Suite Summer Suite," as well as the pleasant surprise of "Midnight and You" -- but otherwise concentrates on Barry White's solo-in-name releases, ranging from 1973's "I'm Gonna Love You, Just a Little More Baby" (number one r&b, number three pop) to 1979's "It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It)" before picking back up with 1987's "Sho' You Right." (White released albums during the intervening years that are not represented, and Universal would've had to license roughly ten charting singles from them to be thorough). The extensive back catalog of his other ventures could use a whole lot of love, but Gold offers about as much lush and exquisitely arranged soul music as one could hope to get in two and a half hours. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Name Credits Barry White String Arrangements, Producer, Horn Arrangements, Rhythm Arrangements, Arranger, Vocal Arrangement Brian Chin Liner Notes Emily Cagan Product Manager Gene Page Arranger, String Arrangements, Horn Arrangements Gerald LeVert Producer Harry Weinger Compilation Producer Jack Perry Conductor, Orchestration, Arranger, Producer, Rhythm Arrangements Jimmy Jam Arranger, Vocal Arrangement, Producer John Casado Photography, Inlay Photography, Cover Photo John Roberts Conductor, Horn Arrangements, Arranger, Orchestration, String Arrangements Kevin Reeves Digital Remastering Mathieu Bitton Design Ryan Null Photo Coordination Terry Lewis Producer, Arranger, Vocal Arrangement Tony Nicholas Producer Ute Friesleben Production Coordination