THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

560-Barry White-You See the Trouble With Me.

1976-Number 2 single.

Best Bit- At 2.28. Barry White was affectionately nicknamed ‘The Walrus of Love.’ I would imagine he had at least 20 master bedrooms, and 10 refrigerators in his love nest.

Barry Eugene Carter was born on September 12th, 1944, in Galveston, Texas, United States, he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on July 4th, 2003. Barry White had been overweight for all of his adult life, and suffered from related health problems.While undergoing dialysis, and waiting for a kidney transplant, he suffered a severe stroke, which he never recovered from.

Having a career as a singer was not White’s intention when he started out in music. His first ventures were in songwriting, and producing, with his co-write with Paul Politi of the song ‘I Feel Love Comin’ On,’ reaching Number 11 in the UK in 1967 when recorded by Felice Taylor (1944-2017.) In 1972 he took over the handling of the female vocal trio ‘Love Unlimited,’ and in 1973 White created the 40 piece orchestral group’The Love Unlimited Orchestra.’ His next task was to find a male singer to perform his songs, but after recording demos, he was persuaded to release the songs himself, although reluctant at that time to perform on stage.

Barry White (see also best songs 560 and 476) would go on to sell in excess of 100 million records, making him one of the worlds best selling artists.In total he recorded 19 solo studio Albums between 1973-1999, and achieved 16 UK top 40 singles, including the 1974 Number 1 ‘You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.’ On Billboard he topped the singles chart also in 1974 with ‘Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Babe.’ There were five studio Album releases by ‘Love Unlimited,’ and a further 10 recorded with ‘The Love Unlimited Orchestra.’

‘You See the Trouble With Me’ was taken from Barry White’s fifth solo studio Album ‘Let the Music Play’ from 1976, and was co-written by White and Ray Parker Jr. Parker Jr. was born on May 1st, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. After starting out as member of Hamilton Bohannon’s house band in the late 1960’s, he would go on top write and produce, and do session work for many of the worlds biggest artists. He also had a solo career as a singer, and will always be best known for his 1984 Billboard Number 1 single ‘Ghostbusters.’

This is one of three songs on this countdown that appear twice in recordings by different artists (see also best songs 931-863-214-145 and 112.) In the year 2000 the Dance Music producer ‘Black Legend’ took his version of this song to Number 1 in the UK, and like the Barry White original it too sold around 200,000 copies (see also best songs 931.)

‘I’m like a blind man who lost his way, I can’t see nothin,’I’m like a deaf man who can’t relay, yeah, I can’t hear nothin.”