Barry White’s 20th Century Catalogue For Box Set, 180g Reissues

Soul giant Barry White will have his nine original albums for 20th Century Records reissued as remastered 9CD and 9LP, 180-gram vinyl box sets by Mercury/UMe on 26 October. Barry White: The 20th Century Records Albums (1973-1979) will be released worldwide in the box set collections and, on the same day, as individual 180-gram LP packages. The albums have all long been out of print as vinyl discs,and will come with sleeve and label artwork faithfully reproduced from the originals.

The new initiative comes 45 years after the release of White’s debut solo album, I’ve Got So Much To Give, and follows the release of two retrospectives in April. That debut set contained the chart-topping ‘I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby’ and was itself an R&B No. 1. Stone Gon’ followed just seven months later, repeating the No. 1 R&B achievement and containing two top ten soul hits.

Can’t Get Enough followed in the summer of 1974, topping both the pop and soul charts and featuring the signature ‘Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe’ and ‘You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.’ Just Another Way To Say I Love You was White’s fourth solo album and kept his run of major singles going with ‘What Am I Gonna Do with You’ and ‘I’ll Do For You Anything You Want Me To.’

Early in 1976, Let The Music Play included such White trademarks as the title track and ‘You See the Trouble with Me.’ His sixth album Is This Whatcha Wont? came late that year  and offered further hits in ‘Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long’ and ‘I’m Qualified to Satisfy You.’ 1977’s Sings For Someone You Love was another R&B No. 1, featuring ‘It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me’ and other singles.

The Man arrived in October 1978 on the renamed 20th Century-Fox Records label, delivering his sixth No. 1 album and  the  lead single ‘Your Sweetness Is My Weakness’ and Barry’s much-loved cover of Billy Joel’s ‘Just the Way You Are.’ His final 20th Century release was 1979’s I Love To Sing The Songs I Sing,  after which his new material appeared on his own Unlimited Gold imprint.

Barry White: The 20th Century Records Albums (1973-1979) is released on 26 October. Scroll down to see the tracklisting and buy it here.

I’ve Got So Much To Give (20th Century T-407; 1973)

SIDE ONE

1. Standing In The Shadows Of Love

2. Bring Back My Yesterday

SIDE TWO

1.  I’ve Found Someone

2. I’ve Got So Much To Give

3. I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby

Stone Gon’ (20th Century T-423; 1973)

SIDE ONE

1. Girl It’s True, Yes I’ll Always Love You

2. Honey Please, Can’t Ya See

3. You’re My Baby

SIDE TWO

1. Hard To Believe That I Found You

2. Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up

Can’t Get Enough (20th Century T-444; 1974)

SIDE ONE

1. Mellow Mood (Pt. I)

2. You’re The First, The Last, My Everything

3. I Can’t Believe You Love Me

SIDE TWO

1. Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe

2. Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It

3. I Love You More Than Anything (In This World Girl)

4. Mellow Mood (Pt. II)

Just Another Way To Say I Love You (20th Century T-466; 1975)

SIDE ONE

1. Heavenly, That’s What You Are To Me

2. I’ll Do For You Anything You Want Me To

3. All Because Of You

4. Love Serenade (Part I)

SIDE TWO

1. What Am I Gonna Do With You

2. Let Me Live My Life Lovin’ You Babe

3. Love Serenade (Part II)

Let The Music Play (20th Century T-502; 1976)

SIDE ONE

1. I Don’t Know Where Love Has Gone

2. If You Know, Won’t You Tell Me

3. I’m So Blue And You Are Too

SIDE TWO

1. Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together

2. You See The Trouble With Me

3. Let The Music Play

Is This Whatcha Wont? (20th Century T-516; 1976)

SIDE ONE

1. Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long

2. Your Love – So Good I Can Taste It

SIDE TWO

1. I’m Qualified To Satisfy You

2. I Wanna Lay Down With You Baby

3. Now I’m Gonna Make Love To You

Barry White Sings For Someone You Love (20th Century T-543; 1977)

SIDE ONE

1. Playing Your Game, Baby

2. It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me

3. You’re So Good, You’re Bad

SIDE TWO

1. I Never Thought I’d Fall In Love With You

2. You Turned My Whole World Around

3. Oh, What A Night For Dancing

4. Of All The Guys In The World

The Man (20th Century T-571; 1978)

SIDE ONE

1. Look At Her

2. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness

3. Sha La La Means I Love You

SIDE TWO

1. September When I First Met You

2. It’s Only Love Doing Its Thing

3. Just The Way You Are

4. Early Years

I Love To Sing the Songs I Sing (20th Century T-590; 1979)

SIDE ONE

1. I Love To Sing The Songs I Sing

2. Girl, What’s Your Name

3. Once Upon A Time (You Were A Friend Of Mine)

4. Oh Me, Oh My (I’m Such A Lucky Guy)

SIDE TWO

1. I Can’t Leave You Alone

2. Call Me, Baby

3. How Did You Know It Was Me?

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Format: UK English