Give Me Your Love is a 1973 album by Barbara Mason. Buddha Records' decision to record an album was due to the success of Mason's version of the Curtis Mayfield title song.[1][2] The album included mature subject matter such as "Bed and Board", and "You Can Be With the One You Don't Love", expressing the desire for a lover outside of marriage. She was the first soul singer to record in the heavy breathing disco style later adopted by Donna Summer among others.[3]
^David Freeland Ladies of Soul 2001 Page 120 ""Give Me Your Love" became a Top to R&B hit, spurring Buddah to issue an eponymous follow-up album, the bulk of which (aside from the two songs done in Chicago with Mayfield) was recorded in Philadelphia at Sigma Sound. The cover featured Mason in a provocative outfit and pose designed to capitalize upon her new image. Soul magazine described it in the following way: "Barbara, in pearlized nail polish and oversized men's shirt tails from which .. "
^Dave Marsh, John Swenson -The new Rolling stone record guide 1983- Page 318 "Barbara Mason is Philadelphia's true first lady of soul. ... Give Me Your Love, Mason's best album, is mostly ballads (the title song is seductive, but uptempo), some with neat hook lines and titles ("Bed and Board," "You Can Be with the One You Don't Love."
^Michael Awkward Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity 2007 "... hers is truly one of soul's great voices— prompts Mason (who'd revived her career after her teenaged success with "Are You Ready," a song of sexual initiation, with a series of mature takes on the challenges of romantic love, including "Bed and Board," "Who Will You Hurt Next," ... "You Can Be With the One You Don't Love") to declare her persona's pity for the woman who perceives nothing wrong with trying in essence to purchase devotion. "
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