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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony Bmg Europe
Salesrank: 156249
Released: July 27, 1999 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Staying Power Track Listing:
1. Staying Power
2. Don't Play Games - (featuring Wa Wa Watson)
3. The Longer We Make Love (Duet with Chaka Khan)
4. I Get Off On You - (featuring Gerald Albright)
5. Which Way Is Up
6. Get Up
7. Sometimes
8. Low Rider
9. Thank You
10. Slow Your Roll
11. Bonus Track: The Longer We Make Love (Duet with Lisa Stansfield)
Editorial Review:
Barry White kicks off Staying Power, his first album since 1994's The Icon Is Love, with a title track that boasts of his long-running stamina, both in bed and in terms of his career. Indeed, the mood here is often as reflective as it is seductive. While sticking close to the machine-tooled groove that helped make Icon's "Practice What You Preach" such a memorable single, the disc also finds White putting his low-register stamp on War's "Low Rider" and Sly Stone's "Thank You" (the latter in a version that, intriguingly, recalls the slow There's a Riot Goin' On take more than the better-known hit). Staying power? Hey, if you've got it, flaunt it. --Rickey Wright
Staying Power Reviews:
My Mentor's Final Album 
2007-04-26 - This album was released on the day I turned 25, and didn't hesitate in buying it. I wasn't disappointed either. "Staying Power" is aptly named; for it's what he continues to have even though he's physically no longer with us. He even won a non-televised Grammy for this album. Heck with or without a Grammy win, he's won me over as his eternal student/fan. It was cool of him to give Chaka Khan and Lisa Stansfield the opportunity to put their own respective/individual spins on their respective duets with him on the same song. Although I was thrown of a little by his Sly & the Family Stone remake (Thank You) with a rap verse included, I never get disappointed when it comes to him.
Fabulous final album he made! 
2005-01-25 - I've heard Barry White's Staying Power several times. It has to be one of his best albums since his series of hits in the '70s. White continues to come out with some sexy ballads like I Get Off On You and the 7-minute plus second song. I love Staying Power and was pleased that it won a Grammy award! The smooth Get Up has a very powerful message. But what also stands out are some funky songs from Barry like Which Way Is Up, his bass heavy remake of War's Low Rider, and the funkier P Diddy remix of Thank You, a Sly and the Family Stone remake. The Longer We Make Love with Lisa Stansfield is so creamy smooth--they both sound good together. This is such a fabulous last album that he made long before his passing in 2003. It shows Barry going out on top again!
The Man is back for the second act (no pun intended) 
2002-02-18 - Having survived his second career as a self-parody (crooning over Arby's sandwiches, saving the snakes of Springfield, etc.), Barry has earned the right to take a moment and reflect on what it all means. The result is this mildly entertaining, oddly Republican record.
The centerpiece is a bizarre little tune called "Get Up" which, contrary to one's expectations, is not an exhortation to phallic prowess but rather ye old-fashioned Protestant Work Ethic - i.e. "Get up off your ass and do something." A worthy sentiment, to be sure, but somewhat distracting when attempting to get close to the very special lady of one's choice.
There are the requisite number of make-out soundtracks (featuring lyrics like "You're so precious and cute / You're very very sensitive / You like flowers...") but they all lack the purple-satin plushness of his classic stuff. Mostly this is due to the brittle crispness of the contemporary production (i.e. the famous Barry White orchestration, always the most important part of his sound, is reduced to occasional, repetitive, thin, and probably synthesized strings). But one must also acknowledge the unstayable hands of Time. (There's some wisdom Barry didn't get around to.) His duet with the great Chaka Khan finds the lady in reasonably good voice but as they pant and moan about "turning out the lights", "making it right", and so on, I can never help thinking, "These people are old to be my parents."
So maybe what F. Scott Fitzgerald meant to say was that there *are* second acts in American lives; they're just never as good as the first.
Barry White has Staying Power
2000-08-19 - I personally feel that Staying Power was Barry White's best recording. The title track, " Staying Power" is a modern R and B track that proves Barry White is with the times and still a current and ground breaking performer. His version of " Low Rider" has a roots rock feel to it and is my personal favorite on the CD. The funk influenced " Thank You" is another excellant piece on this CD. This CD features guest performances by Chaka Khan and Lisa Stansfield. Barry is back and better than ever.
'Staying' for good.
2000-07-04 - Contrasted to Mr. Smokey Robinson, who on his "Intimate" release treads the same schmaltzy-quiet-storm slush that worked as late in the 1980s, Barry White's recent studio album is tailor-made for the Viagra set that was once able to make babies to his music. On "Staying Power"- a quiet-storm release that could be more aptly described as Barry White's reflections on life and love- the Maestro is adeptly showing that a strong physical prowess and healthy conjugal relations are mere extensions of his philosophies about life, love, and his career. "Staying Power" with its double-entendre,opens the set and frames the attitude for the opus, but more relevantly, for his comeback as well. "I've got staying power/just when you think its over/I'm right back again..."Barry assures his fans and his lover to expect the unexpected-both in bed and out-of-bed even at his age; White was always gifted at cheap wordplay-but cheap only in the sense of sexual. Here, his use of irony and his delivery are used to full effect; sexuality once again seems a sublimely ageless experience for those who once used his music to "get it on". White is able to shirk current slow-jam I wanna get nasty trends, but not eschew his overall "I still wanna please you" philosophy-even at his age. "Sometimes" intro evokes Terence Trent D'Arby's "Wishing Well", and finds White espousing the virtues of his tenacity yet again, but this time in life. "Which is Way is Up" is tailor-made for Smooth Jazz radio-if not straight-ahead Urban. It has all the smooth moves: all the jazzy horns, that insinuatingly propulsive smooth-funk, and that seasoned veteran at the helm.
