Barry White's voice was a geological formation. He didn't sing so much as rumble, and he built the Love Unlimited Orchestra -- 40 pieces of strings, horns, and rhythm -- to make seduction sound like a Hollywood production. A kid from Galveston, Texas who grew up in South Central LA, joined a gang, did time, and then heard his own voice on tape and realized he'd been given something nobody else had.

He wrote, produced, and arranged. He discovered the female vocal trio Love Unlimited and built an entire sonic universe around his bass-baritone. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe. You're the First, the Last, My Everything. Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up. The man sold over 100 million records worldwide.

In his later years, his health declined -- hypertension, kidney failure, a stroke in 2003. But the voice, even in those final years, could still make a room vibrate. The Walrus of Love. The velvet-voiced architect of romance. Nobody has sounded like him since.

Barry White -- a voice so deep it registered on seismic equipment. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe. 100 million records. The Walrus of Love.