You're the First, the Last, My Everything

Single infobox |
Name = You're the First, the Last, My Everything


Artist = Barry White
from Album = Can't Get Enough
Released = 1974
Recorded =
Genre = R&B, Disco
Length = 4:33
Label = 20th Century Records
Writer = Peter Radcliffe, Tony Sepe, Barry White
Producer =
Last single = "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"
(1974)
This single = "You're the First, the Last, My Everything"
(1974)
Next single = "What Am I Gonna Do With You"
(1975)

"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. 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.

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.

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:39fqxqlrldfe Song Review] from Allmusic