The Message Is Love

Studio album by Barry White

Released

October 16, 1979

Genre

Disco, Soul, R&B

Length

35:53

Label

Unlimited Gold

Producer

Barry White

Barry White chronology

I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing
(1979)

The Message Is Love
(1979)

Sheet Music
(1980)

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The Message Is Love is the self-produced tenth album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1979. It was White's first release on his own CBS-affiliated custom label, Unlimited Gold, following his departure from long-time label 20th Century-Fox Records, and advance interest was high. The album however proved a disappointment both critically and commercially. Lacking an obvious hit single to provide sales impetus, it stalled outside the R&B top 10 (peaking at #14) and could only reach #67 on the pop chart. The poor performance of the album set the pattern for White's career slump in the early 1980s, which saw him fail to place any other album on the Billboard top 100 during the decade.

Track listing

Tracks written by Barry White and Paul Politi unless stated

"It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It)" - 4:22
"Hung Up In Your Love" - 4:11
"You're the One I Need" (Barry White, Smead Hudman) - 4:23
"Any Fool Could See (You Were Meant for Me)" - 4:45
"Love Ain't Easy" - 5:36
"I'm on Fire" (Robert Jason) - 5:39
"I Found Love" - 6:57

Singles

"Any Fool Could See (You Were Meant for Me)" (US R&B #37)
"It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It)" (US R&B #58)
"Love Ain't Easy" (US R&B #75)

Barry White

Studio albums	I've Got So Much to Give (1973) Stone Gon' (1973) Can't Get Enough (1974) Just Another Way to Say I Love You (1975) Let the Music Play (1976) Is This Whatcha Wont? (1976) Barry White Sings for Someone You Love (1977) The Man (1978) I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing (1979) The Message Is Love (1979) Sheet Music (1980) Barry & Glodean (with Glodean White) (1981) Beware! (1981) Change (1982) Dedicated (1983) The Right Night & Barry White (1987) The Man Is Back! (1989) Put Me in Your Mix (1991) The Icon Is Love (1994) Staying Power (1999)

Compilations	Barry White's Greatest Hits (1975) Barry White's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1977) Heart and Soul (1985) The Collection (1988) Just for You (1992) All-Time Greatest Hits (1994) The Ultimate Collection (2000) Love Songs (2003) The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barry White (2003) White Gold: The Very Best of Barry White (2005) Gold (2006) Number Ones (2009) Unlimited (2009) Icon (2010) Icon 2 (2010)

Singles	"Man Ain't Nothin" "All in the Run of a Day" "In the Ghetto" "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" "I've Got So Much to Give" "Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up" "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" "What Am I Gonna Do with You" "I'll Do for You Anything You Want Me To" "Let the Music Play" "You See the Trouble with Me" "Baby, We Better Try to Get It Together" "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" "I'm Qualified to Satisfy You" "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" "Playing Your Game, Baby" "Oh, What a Night for Dancing" "Your Sweetness Is My Weakness" "Just the Way You Are" "Sha La La Means I Love You" "It's Only Love Doing Its Thing" "Any Fool Can See (You Were Meant for Me)" "It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It)" "I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing" "How Did You Know It Was Me?" "Love Ain't Easy" "Sheet Music" "Love Makin' Music" "I Believe in Love" "Didn't We Make It Happen, Baby" (with Glodean White) "I Want You" (with Glodean White) "You're the Only One for Me" (with Glodean White) "Louie Louie" "Beware" "Change" "Passion" "America" "Don't Let Them Blow Your Mind" "Sho' You Right" "For Your Love (I'll Do Most Anything)" "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" (Paul Hardcastle Remix) "Super Lover" "Follow That and See (Where It Leads Y'All)" "I Wanna Do It Good to Ya" "When Will I See You Again" "Put Me in Your Mix" "Dark and Lovely (You Over There)" (with Isaac Hayes) "Practice What You Preach" "Love Is the Icon" "Come On" "I Only Want to Be with You" "There It Is" "Staying Power" "The Longer We Make Love" (with Lisa Stansfield & Chaka Khan) "Let the Music Play" (Funkstar Deluxe Remixes)

Featured singles	"The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" (with Quincy Jones, Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, & El DeBarge) "All of Me" (with Big Daddy Kane) "Slow Jams" (with Quincy Jones, Babyface, Tamia, & Portrait) "In Your Wildest Dreams" (with Tina Turner)

Related articles	Discography Love Unlimited The Love Unlimited Orchestra

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