Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe

"Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"
Single by Barry White
from the album Can't Get Enough
B-side "Just Not Enough"
Released July 25, 1974
Format 7 inch vinyl
Recorded 1974
Genre Soul, disco, pop soul
Length

3:28 (single version)

4:31 (album version)
Label Philips, 20th Century
Writer(s) Barry White
Producer(s) Barry White
Barry White singles chronology
"Honey Please, Can't Ya See"
(1974)
"Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"
(1974)
"You're the First, the Last, My Everything"
(1974)
Music sample
Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
"Can't Get Enough of Your Love"

CD Single Cover
Single by Taylor Dayne
from the album Soul Dancing
B-side "Let's Spend the Night Together"
Released June 10, 1993
Format Cassette single
CD single
12" vinyl
Recorded 1993
Genre Pop
Length 4:25
Label Arista
Writer(s) Barry White
Producer(s) David Cole, Robert Clivillés
Taylor Dayne singles chronology
"Heart of Stone"
(1990)
"Can't Get Enough of Your Love"
(1993)
"Send Me a Lover"
(1993)

"Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" is a song written, recorded, and produced by Barry White. Released as the first single from his album Can't Get Enough in 1974, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and U.S. R&B charts[1] and has since become one of his signature tunes. It was his second U.S. chart-topper, after "Love's Theme".

The song is a pop-soul track with lush string arrangements and a disco-influenced beat behind it. The single differs from the LP version in that White sings solo during the intro whereas on the LP version he performs background vocals. The single is also an edit and is mixed differently.

White performed this song live on The Midnight Special in 1974, and on Soul Train on May 24, 1975.[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1974) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1
UK Singles Chart 8

Taylor Dayne version

In 1993 the song was covered – as "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" – by Taylor Dayne. When Dayne submitted her planned third album to Arista Records, label president Clive Davis strongly suggested that she remake the Barry White classic to serve as the album's lead single (replacing Dayne's choice, the self-penned "I'll Wait" which was the planned title cut; the album's title was amended to Soul Dancing).

Produced by David Cole and Robert Clivillés of C+C Music Factory, Dayne's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" became a smash dance club hit peaking at #2.[3] However, the track evinced a sharp drop in Dayne's profile on the Billboard Hot 100 with a #20 peak; Dayne's first seven singles had all reached the Top Ten but her eighth single "Heart of Stone" peaked at #12. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" was her final Top 40 hit with the follow-up single, "Send Me a Lover", being her last Hot 100 entry.

The track had more impact for Dayne internationally; in Australia, it spent three weeks at #2 in August 1993.

Track listing

  1. Album Version 4:25
  2. C+C Extended Club Mix I 6:05
  3. C+C Extended Club Mix II 6:46
  4. C+C Special Edition Mix 6:12
  5. "Let's Spend the Night Together" 5:35

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1993) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 20
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 14
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 2
UK Singles Chart 14
Australian Singles Chart 2
Japanese Orican Singles Chart 6
Swiss Singles Chart 17
Austrian Singles Chart 29
Dutch Singles Chart 9
Swedish Singles Chart 34
German Singles Chart 56

Year-end charts

Chart (1993) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 99

In popular culture

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 620.
  2. The Best of Soul Train Live (booklet). Time Life. 2011.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 71.
  4. "Billboard Top 100 – 1993". Retrieved 2010-08-27.

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Preceded by
"I Shot the Sheriff" by Eric Clapton
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single (Barry White version)
September 21, 1974 (one week)
Succeeded by
"Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim
Preceded by
"Feel Like Makin' Love" by Roberta Flack
Billboard Hot Soul Singles number-one single (Barry White version)
September 7, 1974 (three weeks)
Succeeded by
"You Haven't Done Nothin'" by Stevie Wonder