BARRY WHITE - MY FIRST, MY LAST, MY EVERYTHING

MY FIRST MY LAST MY EVERYTHING

BARRY WHITE

SONGWRITERS: TONY SEPE; BARRY WHITE & PETER STERLING RADCLIFFE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: C’ANT GET ENOUGH

LABEL: 20^TH CENTURY FOX RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1974

Can't Get Enough is the third studio album by American R&B/disco singer Barry White, released on August 6, 1974 by the 20th Century label.

The album topped the R&B albums chart, his third album to do so. It also topped the Billboard 200 and peaked at #4 on the UK Albums Chart. The album included two Billboard R&B number-one singles, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything". Both were also successful on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #1 and #2 respectively. Both singles were also hits on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8 and #1 respectively. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD on March 19, 1996 by Island/Mercury Records.

Village Voice critic Robert Christgau mockingly wrote: "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.'"

In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 281 the magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and in 283 in a 2012 revised list.

Barry Eugene Carter (born September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003), better known by his stage name Barry White, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and composer.

A two-time Grammy Award–winner known for his distinctive bass-baritone voice and romantic image, his greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with The Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk, and disco songs such as his two biggest hits: "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe".

During the course of his career in the music business, White achieved 112 gold albums worldwide, 41 of which also attained platinum status. White had 20 gold and 10 platinum singles, with worldwide record sales in excess of 100 million records, and is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His influences included James Cleveland, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and Marvin Gaye.

We got it together didn't we

We definitely got our thing together don't we baby

Isn't that nice

I mean really when you really sit and think about it

Isn't it really really nice

I can easily feel myself slipping more and more away to

That simple world of our own

Nobody but you and me

We got it together baby

My first, my last, my everything.

And the answer to all my dreams.

You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star.

My kind of wonderful, that's what you are

I know there's only, only one like you.

There's no way, they could have made two

You're all I'm living for,

Your love I'll keep for evermore,

You're the first, you're the last, my everything.

In you I've found so many things

A love so new only you could bring

Can't you see if you,

You'll make me feel this way.

You're like a first morning dew

on a brand new day.

I see so many way that I can love you,

Till the day I die.

You're my reality, yet I'm lost in a dream.

You're the first, the last, my everything

I know there's only, only one like you.

There's no way they could have made two.

Girl you're my reality

But I'm lost in a dream

You're the first, you're the last, my everything.