I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby

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"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby"
I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby by Barry White US vinyl.png
Side A of US vinyl single
Single by Barry White
from the album I've Got So Much to Give
B-side "Just a Little More Baby"
"Standing in the Shadows of Love" (France)
"I've Got So Much to Give" (Germany)
ReleasedApril 1973
Genre Soul, R&B
Length3:58 (single edit)
7:11 (album version)
Label 20th Century Records
Songwriter(s) Barry White
Producer(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)

"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" is a song written, produced and recorded by Barry White.

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Released in the spring of 1973 as the first single from his 1973 debut album I've Got So Much to Give , the song was a number-one hit on the US R&B chart for two weeks, peaked at number three on the Billboard Pop Singles chart [1] and reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was also certified gold by the RIAA for sales of one million copies.

Background

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Barry White in 1974

White recorded three song demos of himself singing and playing the piano, and he told his business partner Larry Nunes about the song, who convinced White to re-record and release it. Appearing with White on the recording session for the song were guitarists Ray Parker Jr., Wah Wah Watson, Dean Parks, and David T. Walker; drummer Ed Greene; bassists Wilton Felder and Nathan East; and vibes player Gary Coleman. [2]

Reception

The single earned the gold certification (1,000,000 units sold) from the Recording Industry Association of America on June 6, 1973. [3] Food writer Adrian Miller in his 2013 book Soul Food declared the song as his "personal choice" of songs by Barry White whenever a hot sauce, which Miller said "is about seduction", would come to mind. [4]

Usage in the media

In 2020, Summer Walker recorded a cover of the song for Birds of Prey: The Album . [5] Additionally, the Barry White version appears in the film. The song also appears in an episode of Friends and has appeared in many films and comedy sketches involving seductive or sexual scenes.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [6] 26
Canada (RPM) [7] 10
France (SNEP) [8] 37
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [9] 21
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [10] 14
New Zealand ( Listener ) [11] 17
UK Singles (OCC) [12] 23
US Billboard Hot 100 [13] 3
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [14] 27
US Best Selling Soul Singles (Billboard) [15] 1
US Cash Box Top 100 [16] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)Rank
Australia182
Canada [17] 97
US Billboard Hot 100 [18] 33
US Cash Box [19] 93

Other versions

In 1974, reggae artist Lloyd Charmers released a cover version in the UK on Trojan Records' subsidiary label Harry J (catalogue number HJ6662). [20]

In 2009, saxophonist Boney James covered the song for his album Send One Your Love.

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