This was Barry White's first bona fide success in close to two years.
It is due in part to the slight change of his music formula.
After albums such as the Love Unlimited Orchestra's Music Maestro, Please and 1976's Is This Whatcha Wont? disappeared without a trace, White ended his over the top musical extravagance and returned with a sleeker more relaxed style.
Barry White Sings for Someone You Love is often so laid back, it's almost reclining.
This album biggest hit was "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me." That song more than anything else here typified White's new and improved production style and offered one of his drollest vocals.
The amazing "Oh What a Night" has him effortlessly capturing the drama of R&B from a decade or two earlier and it is both sensual and romantic.
The sleeper of the album, "I Never Thought I'd Fall In Love With You," is lush, confident, and assured.
If it appeared on an album before this, it's doubtful White could have gotten the subtle musical nuances or the plaintive vocal.
As for pure ballads, "You Turned My Whole World Around" and "Of All the Guys in the World" are good, but with their interchangeable dirge-like paces, they practically cancel one another out.
Barry White Sings for Someone You Love in essence restarted White's career and contains some of his best work.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Playing Your Game, BabyAustin Croom Johnson | Barry White | Play | 07:13 | 16 MB | 42 MB |
| 2 | It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to MeEkundayo Paris, Nelson Pigford | Barry White | Play | 06:57 | 15 MB | 40 MB |
| 3 | You're So Good You're BadJerry Ragovoy, Aaron Schroeder | Barry White | Play | 06:03 | 13 MB | 35 MB |
| 4 | Never Thought I'd Fall in Love With You | Barry White | Play | 04:48 | 10 MB | 25 MB |
| 5 | You Turned My Whole World AroundDanny Pearson, Frank Wilson | Barry White | Play | 07:47 | 17 MB | 42 MB |
| 6 | Oh What a Night for DancingBarry White, Vance Wilson | Barry White | Play | 03:55 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 7 | Of All the Guys in the WorldDanny Pearson, Barry White | Barry White | Play | 04:00 | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| 40 mins | 93 MB | |||||
| 40 mins | 233 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austin Croom Johnson | Composer |
| 2 | Mitchell Kanner | Package Design, Package Redesign |
| 3 | Frank Kejmar | Engineer, Mixing Engineer |
| 4 | Gary N. Mayo | Digital Remastering, Remastering |
| 5 | Emmett North, Jr. | Guitar |
| 6 | Larry Nunes | Spiritual Advisor |
| 7 | Ekundayo Paris | Composer |
| 8 | Danny Pearson | Composer |
| 9 | Nelson Pigford | Composer |
| 10 | Jerry Ragovoy | Composer |
| 11 | John Roberts | Orchestration |
| 12 | Aaron Schroeder | Composer |
| 13 | Ron Slenzak | Back Cover, Photography |
| 14 | Barry White | Arranger, Artwork, Composer, Concept, Cover Design, Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 15 | Frank Wilson | Composer |
| 16 | Vance Wilson | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |