Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and musician Barry
White (September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003) had a long career in the music
business that was enormously influential in the R&B, soul, and disco genres. In
the 1960s, he worked as a songwriter, producer and arranger for many records
including – surprisingly – a track by Saturday morning bubblegum pop band The
Banana Splits (“Doin’ the Banana Split”). In the 1970s, he became a solo star
and wrote and produced many other soul/R&B artists. One of the first acts he was
associated with was the female vocal tr...