Barry White, Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 21^st edition of Throwback Vibez (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” by Barry White. 

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 21^st edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe”, performed by Barry White.

“My darling, I / Can’t get enough of your love, babe.” Word! Throughout his illustrious career, the late, great, Grammy-winning soul artist Barry White (1944 – 2023) landed six top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.  Only one of those top-10s reached no. 1: “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe”.  “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” appeared as the fourth track from White’s 1974 LP, Can’t Get Enough. It goes without saying that this is one of White’s most beloved songs.  It’s closest competition? Probably “You’re the First, The Last, My Everything”.

With love featured in its title, and the fact that Barry White is renowned for his magnificent baritone, delivering love songs, “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” is sexy as… you know! It begins with a spoken word intro, where White sets the tone over lush, picturesque production work. “As many times as we’ve loved and / We’ve shared love and made love /… It doesn’t seem to me like it’s enough…” Noted, Barry! Of course, that leads into the unforgettable chorus, excerpted at the top, where White adds, “Girl, I don’t know, I don’t know why / Can’t get enough of your love, babe.”  White goes onto drop two verses, dedicating his love to her. “What am I gonna do? / How should I feel when everything is you?” he sings in the first verse, adding in the second, “Girl, what am I gonna do / Because you’re blowin’ my mind.” Ooh-wee! Superbly penned by and produced by White, marvelously arranged by him and Gene Page, and backed by the epic The Love Unlimited Orchestra, “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” will forever be one of the truly great disco/soul songs of the 1970s.

🎙 Barry White • 💿 Can’t Get Enough • 🏷 UMG Recordings Inc. • 📅 1974

Barry White, Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 21 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; UMG Recordings Inc.; OpenClipart-Vectors, Speedy McVroom via  Pixabay]