Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything (Bass cover with tabs)

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...and today to something completely different: it's disco time :-)
But wait a minute. Can you imagine that this song was originally written as a country song named "You're My First, You're My Last, My In-Between"?

That's how the story goes: Barry White's friend Peter Sterling Radcliffe wrote that song actually back in the 1950's, but couldn't get it on record for 21 years.
When White was down on his luck, Radcliffe stepped up and bought his children toys for Christmas - a kindness White didn't forget when he became famous. So when Radcliffe offered him the song, he didn't hesitate to hear it.

Tony Sepe, another songwriter who was in the room (and whose name ended up on the tune), laughed when he heard the country song with the clip-clop of horses' hooves keeping the rhythm. He was shocked by White's positive reaction. The singer recalled to Billboard: "I said, 'Sterling, that song is a smash.' Tony's face actually changed. I said, 'Sterling, I want you to stay out of my face for the next two or three weeks. When you come back, you're going to be part of a smash.'"
Changing the genre from country to disco, he kept the chord changes and part of Radcliffe's melody but also added his own melody and nearly all new lyrics. "I heard what was inside that song," White explained.

Most of the changes came to him during a rough recording session when it didn't seem like the song was going to pan out. "I went into the studio and made up my own melody all the way through. Half of the words in it I changed right in front of the microphone." When Radcliffe heard the final result, he cried.
However on December 7th 1974 the song hit the UK single charts at No.1.

Great story, cool song, nice bassline!
Have fun!

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