You're the First, the Last, My Everything

"You're the First, the Last, My Everything" is a popular song recorded by Barry White. Written by White, Tony Sepe and Peter Radcliffe and produced by White, "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" was White's fourth top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #2; it spent a week at #1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.^[1] The early disco classic made it to number two on the disco/dance charts.^[2] In the UK it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top in December 1974. It appeared on White's 1974 album Can't Get Enough.

Radcliffe originally wrote "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" as a country song with the title "You're My First, You're My Last, My In-Between", which went unrecorded for 21 years. White recorded it as a disco song, keeping most of the structure and two-thirds of the title, but he rewrote the lyrics.

In popular culture

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• The song is featured in the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).
• The song also features in the movie Money Talks with Charlie Sheen and Chris Tucker
• The song is also featured in several Ally McBeal episodes, accompanying John Cage during his life most of the time. Whenever he gets into a difficult situation, he withdraws and concentrates on the song, hearing it and dancing to it, to regain strength and concentrate on whatever comes along.
• The song is featured in an Indonesian Bebelac 3 commercial.

Chart positions

Other notable recordings

A cover version of the song performed by Howard Brown was released in 2005 in the UK as a charity single. It peaked at #13 in the UK singles chart. Prior to its release it had been adapted for a popular television commercial for Halifax Bank in which Brown could be seen singing and dancing.

References

External links

• Song Review from Allmusic