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Stone Gon'

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Barry Hit paydirt with this album. The hit songs Never Gonna Give You Up and Honey Please are not the only hot songs. My sentimental favorite is Girl its true. A must for The Barry White Fan.

Stone Gon' is Barry White's first top twenty hit on the pop charts and it contained his first top ten pop single "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up". Mr. White is of course best known for that honey-dipped, velvet baritone voice of his which has almost taken on a life of its own. The voice is his calling card, but there is so much more to him as an artist. He incorporated an orchestra into his music and this sound laid down the blueprint for disco with the use of strings and horns. He is a crisp and efficient writer who can get at your soul. Stone Gon' is still a bit of a work in progress (he would perfect the formula on Can't Get Enough) as he is feeling out his sound, but the songs are lush and beautiful.

One Barry's earlier recordings. Soft, sensual music to love by :)

The best of the best this is it!.from never gonna give you up to girl it,s true. this is and will always be barry at his best rip. enjoy!

No one could tell a woman how much he loves her like Barry White. This album is proof of that. My Mom bought this album shortly after its release, and she still plays it all the time. These songs are beautiful, and Barry's words at intervals throughout the songs are gorgeous. They brighten the album all the more, and now that it's on CD, it sounds better than ever. Each sound is crystal clear and flawless. This is Barry at his best!

There was no sophmore slump to be heard on Barry White's second album,following up his classic debut Ive Got So Much to Give with another album of elongated,romantic slow funk symphonies that even further bettered those featured on his previous outing. From "Girl It's True,Yes I'll Always Love You" on you'll realize that not only has White really beefed up his sense of rhythm but on the crawling,implicitly sexual "Honey Please,Can't Ya See See","You're My Baby" and "Hard To Believe That I Found You" that he'd officially mastered the James Brown derived technique of spinning off melodic,rhythmic and harmonic ideas from one song and spinning them off into another,for all intents and purposes creating new moods and flavors from different ones. One of the most fascinating aspects of this album are his extended monologues. Here Barry White comes off as a reflective yet plain talking kind of guy who wishes to let the lady he's speaking to that he not only loves them but respects their love as well. Sure there's plenty of sexual machismo behind it all but there's a mildly unrehersed quality to these monologues that totally erases any possible corniness that could've easily derived from yet. Yes I realize over the years that's become one of his signitures and is often lovingly spoofed but no matter how you cut it Barry White delivers make out funk that not only gets you in the mood but also think about the many twists and turns of love before you pull back the sheets. This is all reflect in his honeyed baritone voice,the honeyed strings and.....even the honeyed rhyhtms if you can imagine such a thing. Again in the spirit of spinning off songs into new ones "Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up" completely re-harmonizes and re-arranges the layored midtempo funk of "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Baby" from his debut and makes a terrific follow up. There are many people who cound this and his debut as sort of two halfs of his masterpiece and taken apart they're both masterpieces of the genre. This along with that newly reissued debut would also be the perfect albums to pick up together and listen to back to back if your just getting into Barry White's music.

what is there to say? a classic of a album!! barry open the bedroom,living room and kitchen!!

i bought this on vinyl back in the day. it opened up like a huge greeting card full of love for barry's wife. the songs on there are long lush beautiful odes to love. NEVER NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP in its unedited version is just the pinnacle of his career to me. HONEY PLEASE CANT YA SEE while not a big hit just shines and is also extended on this issue. not a bad song in the bunch. theres only a few songs because they are so long. a masterpiece by the maestro of love. so happy to finally have it on cd. i wish i didnt give my vinyl to my sister but she loved him so.

The single "Hard To Believe That I Found You" is one of the best songs performed by Barry. I would rate it in the top 10 of all the songs Barry released. This single alone is worth the price of the CD. The single "Girl It's True, Yes I'll Always Love You" is also a noteworthy song.