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	1974
Format	7 inch vinyl
Recorded	1974
Genre	Soul, disco
Length	4:36
Label	20th Century Records
Writer(s)	Barry White
Producer	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 [1]
Format	Cassette single CD single 12" vinyl
Recorded	1993
Genre	Pop
Length	4:25
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Barry White
Producer	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 White's album Can't Get Enough in 1974, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and U.S. R&B chart and has since become one of White's 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 - Barry sings solo during the intro of the single whereas on the LP version, he performs background vocals. The single is also an edit and is mixed differently.

Barry White performed this song live on The Midnight Special in 1974.

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 had submitted her planned third album to Arista Records, label president Clive Davis strongly suggested that Dayne 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. 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 with her eighth single "Heart of Stone" rising as high as #12. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" has proven to be Dayne's final Top 40 hit to date with the followup single "Send Me a Lover" being her last Hot 100 entry.

The track had more impact for Dayne internationally notably in Australia where with three weeks at #2 in August 1993 "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" became Dayne's career record.

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	99

In popular culture

• The song David Tyler CKBE-FM
• It was covered by the Belgian act Big Tony in 1983.
• The Barry White recording features in the film Cookie (1989).
• The song appears in several The Simpsons episodes, such as "Whacking Day and "The Last Temptation of Homer". Barry White was a big fan of the comedy. He recorded a version specially for the episode "Whacking Day", in which he also appeared as a guest star. The song also appeared in the 1994 clip show episode in one of the clips at the end.
• The song also appears on the original motion picture soundtrack for the movie "Beautiful Girls" (1996). This version, by the band Afghan Whigs, has a distinctly rock sound while maintaining the underlying soul influence of the original.
• The song also features in the soundtrack to the 2006 film 16 Blocks, kicking in as the credits roll.
• The song also appeared in the Nickelodeon show Angry Beavers in the episode "Beaver Fever". One of the characters sang a slight variation of the song called "Oh Baby".
• It was also featured in the comedy film, Down to You (2000) as a song that Al sang to Imogen when they got back together.
• In 2004, Ricki-Lee Coulter performed this song in the semi-finals of the second season of Australian Idol and progressed to the Top 12 the following night.
• In 2007, the song was performed on the fifth season of Australian Idol by Tarisai Vushe on the Top 6 performance night.

Preceded by "I Shot the Sheriff" by Eric Clapton	Billboard Hot 100 number-one single (Barry White version) September 21, 1974	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 - September 28, 1974	Succeeded by "You Haven't Done Nothin'" by Stevie Wonder