If White had only added one more song...

"Sheet Music" is the second of White's releases on his own Unlimited Gold label. I remember watching White on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" touting the new "Barry White". After making a noticeable loss of weight, a slimmer and trimmer White performed the first single from the album: the title cut.

And what a song it is: sultry strings, a pulsating bass line, and the wonders of White's vocal chords. With such a powerful release as the album's debut track, I had to have it.

The strengths of the album lie in the orchestra and "the voice". There is a cover of the chestnut "Rum and Coca-Cola" and another highlight is the street-friendly "Ghetto Letto".

But noticeably absent from the release is a "power ballad". White usually has one really strong one, a paean to a lost love or a "come on" to a new one.

Such an omission leaves one longing for a few more "sheets" of music.