I've Got So Much to Give

"I've Got So Much to Give" is an R&B contemporary romantic ballad composed and recorded by popular soul artist Barry White and released in 1973. It was originally conceived by White as a single but then featured on the album of the same name (released in 1973), that peaked at number one on the Hot R&B Albums Chart. The song peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and charted for 11 weeks. It also reached number five on the US Billboard R&B chart and #46 Adult Contemporary. White composed and arranged both the instrumentals and vocals.

This article is about the song. For for the album, see I've Got So Much to Give (album).
"I've Got So Much to Give"
Single by Barry White
from the album I've Got So Much to Give
A-side"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby"
Released1973
RecordedNovember 1972
GenreR&B, soul
Length8:17
Label20th Century
Songwriter(s)Barry White
Barry White singles chronology
"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby"
(1973)		 "I've Got So Much to Give"
(1973)		 "Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up"
(1973)

Song information

The song begins with a brief instrumental solo performed by The Love Unlimited Orchestra, the instrumentals are repeated while White speaks romantic words to his apparent love interest, this style is also used in his version of "Just the Way You Are" and Barry's other contemporary ballads. White then begins the song's first verse, after completing his vocals he repeats the title as a chorus. The song then ends with an extended instrumental set consisting of a flute, drums, violin, a bass guitar, and White's own piano playing as White continues to speak romantic words and later improvising vocals towards the end of the song. The song ends with a fade similar to traditional ballads of the same type.

Influence and reception

The romantic lyrics used in the song helped craft White's sexual persona, and the unusual orchestral combination of instruments in an R&B song influenced the disco sound along with White's other mainly instrumental songs. I've Got So Much To Give was heavily acclaimed by Allmusic who felt it was obvious why the album reached the top of the R&B charts, despite the fact I've Got So Much To Give followed a formula similar to White's past songs they stated "the novelty of White's approach, coupled with the universality of his subject matter, ensured that there was no sense of having heard it all before." In a play written by Mark Frank (included in the book A Collection of Plays Written by Mark Frank), one of the main protagonist transforms himself into Barry White and performs the song.[1] The song is often used in romantic novels and films.[1]

Credits
  • Arrangements by Gene Page and Barry White
  • Composition and Vocals by Barry White
  • Instrumentals and Background Vocals Performed by The Love Unlimited Orchestra
gollark: ?tag blub
gollark: ?tag create blub Graham considers a hypothetical Blub programmer. When the programmer looks down the "power continuum", he considers the lower languages to be less powerful because they miss some feature that a Blub programmer is used to. But when he looks up, he fails to realise that he is looking up: he merely sees "weird languages" with unnecessary features and assumes they are equivalent in power, but with "other hairy stuff thrown in as well". When Graham considers the point of view of a programmer using a language higher than Blub, he describes that programmer as looking down on Blub and noting its "missing" features from the point of view of the higher language.
gollark: ?tag blub Graham considers a hypothetical Blub programmer. When the programmer looks down the "power continuum", he considers the lower languages to be less powerful because they miss some feature that a Blub programmer is used to. But when he looks up, he fails to realise that he is looking up: he merely sees "weird languages" with unnecessary features and assumes they are equivalent in power, but with "other hairy stuff thrown in as well". When Graham considers the point of view of a programmer using a language higher than Blub, he describes that programmer as looking down on Blub and noting its "missing" features from the point of view of the higher language.
gollark: > As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.
gollark: Imagine YOU are a BLUB programmer.

References

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

  1. Mark Frank. A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank. Books.google.com. p. 169. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  2. "AOL Radio Stations | Free Internet Radio | AOL Radio". Music.aol.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  3. "YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  4. "Barry White - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  5. Marissa Monteilh. May December Souls. Books.google.com. p. 16. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  6. Dave Thompson. Funk. Books.google.com. p. 199. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  7. "Barry White - I've Got So Much To Give (Vinyl, LP, Album)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.