Just For You [Box]

Performer: Barry White
Artist: Quincy Jones; Al B. Sure!; James Ingram; El DeBarge; Big Daddy Kane; Lisa Stansfield; Isaac Hayes; Gerald Albright
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: This 3-CD box set contains a 32-page booklet with a biographical essay by David Ritz, track-by-track annotations, complete personnel listings, a discography and rare photos. Personnel includes: Barry White (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, bass, drums); David T. Walker, Dean Parks, Lee Ritenour (guitar); Stella Castalucci (harp); Ernie Watts, Bill Green (flute, saxophone); Gerald Albright (saxophone); Jerry Hey, Gary Grant (trumpet); George Bohanon (trombone); Vince DaRosa (French horn); Gene Page, Jack Perry, Chuckii Booker (piano, keyboards); Wilton Felder, Nathan East, Willie Sistrunk (bass); Ed Greene, Delacy White (drums); Paulinho Da Costa, Bobby Hall (percussion); Vella Cameron, Sheila Chambers, Cindy Davis, Stephanie Fletcher, Jermaine Jackson (background vocals); Quincy Jones, Al B. Sure, James Ingram, El DeBarge, Big Daddy Kane, Lisa Stansfield, Isaac Hayes. The Love Unlimited Orchestra includes: Glodean James, Linda James, Diane Taylor. Producers include: Barry White, Ian Devaney, Andy Morris, Quincy Jones, Andre Booth. Compilation producers: Barry White, Harry Weinger. Engineers include: Frank Kejmar. Principally recorded at Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California. Includes liner notes by Barry White and David Ritz. Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).

Q (5/93, p.109) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the definitive Barry White..." NME (Magazine) (3/13/93, p.32) - 8 - Excellent - "...chock to brim with chunky, happy, sunshine riffs and grooves--evidence enough that the man is a legend on the dancefloor as well as the bedroom..."

A giant both artistically and physically, Barry White had a basso profundo voice and lusty, soulful songs that are probably responsible for more procreation than a thousand fertility clinics. Songs like "Never Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" brought an epic, orchestral sensibility to R&B, and White was one of the musical bridges between soul and disco in the 1970s. While he had considerable chart success, White was not much of a critics' favorite. In subsequent decades, however, he came to be taken more seriously, and respected as a soul music giant. He even managed a comeback in the '90s before his death in 2003.

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