There's an abundance of 1970s love songs, and many of them are emotionally rawer, more overtly sexual, and more narcissistic than love songs from earlier decades. the submittal of the Equal Rights Amendment to state legislatures for ratification.rising unemployment and inflation brought about by the oil crisis and.the Watergate scandal, impeachment, and resignation of Pres.They searched for identity, meaning, and self-fulfillment against a backdrop of significant events: In the 1970s, Americans of the "Me" generation came of age.
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and Darrell his stepson, McKevin his companion, Catherine Denton, the mother of Barriana and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.Travel back in time to the 1970s, a time of transition when the "Me" generation came of age, to celebrate love with pop, rock, country, soul, and disco songs.Īdamkontor via Pixabay, Free Domain, modified by FlourishAnyway The "Me" Generation Falls in Love
Along with his wife, who no longer lived with him, he is survived by his daughters La nece, Deniece, Nina, Shaheara and Barriana, who was born four weeks ago his sons Barry Jr. White was hospitalized last September for kidney failure and had been undergoing dialysis. He had been working on an album of duets to be released later this year. His voice was used on episodes of ``The Simpsons,'' and he appeared on ``Ally McBeal'' and in a widely broadcast Apple Computer commercial. His ``All-Time Greatest Hits'' album, released in 1994, has also sold a million copies. In 1994, he had a two-million-selling album, ``The Icon Is Love,'' and his 1999 album, ``Staying Power,'' won two rhythm-and-blues Grammy Awards. He appeared on Quincy Jones's ``Back on the Block'' album in 1990, and with the rapper Big Daddy Kane in 1991. And in the late 1980's, he began a career resurgence. Rappers and dance-music acts including 50 Cent, the Beastie Boys and Daft Punk have sampled his music. But his songs and the image he had created proved durable. White began his solo career, starting a long string of hits with ``I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby.'' Along with his own songs, he wrote and produced hits for Love Unlimited and the Love Unlimited Orchestra, and performed at elaborate concerts, at one point leading an 80-woman orchestra.Īfter disco peaked in the late 1970's, Mr. She was his second wife he had already had four children with his first. He produced their 1972 hit, ``Walking in the Rain with the One I Love,'' and went on to marry one of them, Glodean James, who survives him. White worked as a talent scout for Mustang Records, where he signed a trio of female singers, Love Unlimited.
Moments later, the police pulled up next to his phone booth and threatened him with jail if he did it again. During a stop in Alabama, he called a white operator ``baby'' while phoning home. He toured with the rhythm-and-blues singer Jackie Lee. He became a singer and pianist with a Los Angeles rhythm-and-blues group, the Upfronts, and helped arrange Bob and Earl's 1963 hit, ``The Harlem Shuffle,'' later remade by the Rolling Stones. His brother Darryl was shot and killed in a dispute over small change in 1983. White's 1999 autobiography, ``Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love'' (Broadway Books), while in jail he heard Elvis Presley's hit ``It's Now or Never,'' and decided to give up crime.
After his family moved to Los Angeles, he made his recording debut at 11, playing piano on the Jesse Belvin hit ``Goodnight My Love.'' But living in the poor neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, he was also in and out of trouble, and in 1960 spent seven months in jail for stealing tires.Īccording to Mr. He was born in Galveston, Tex., where he learned gospel singing from his mother and taught himself to play piano and organ. White's childhood was as rough as his songs were smooth.