This blog becomes not only a place to share memories/ideas/information, but opinions and even confessions. This post falls into the latter category. I am not a fan of music invented for the sole purpose of dancing. Maybe it's my fundamentalist Christian background, or more likely the fact that I have no sense of rhythm from the waist down. However, I dig Barry White. His voice, the music, the persona is so over the top and so late-70's that criticism is difficult....especially while getting into the music. Besides there are probably few people in rock/pop history to claim that his songs became the background music to the siring of a generation's worth of children. In 1973 he put together the 40-piece "Love Unlimited Orchestra", mainly for backing this female trio, "Love Unlimited". He later put this idea to even better use for his own recordings in the mid to late 70's. Today in 1974, "Love's Theme" hit #1 in the US....this version is taken from "The Midnight Special".
