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All This Love (DeBarge song)

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"All This Love"
Single by DeBarge
from the album All This Love
B-side"I'm In Love With You"
ReleasedOctober 17, 1982
Genre
Length4:09 (Single Version)
5:52 (Album Version)
LabelGordy
Songwriter(s)El DeBarge
Producer(s)
DeBarge singles chronology
"I Like It"
(1982)
"All This Love"
(1982)
"Time Will Reveal"
(1983)
Music video
"All This Love" on YouTube

"All This Love" is a single by DeBarge, released on October 17, 1982. The song was released as the third and final single from their second studio album of the same title on the Gordy label. The single would help DeBarge rise to R&B stardom. A cover version of the song was recorded by Patti LaBelle on her 1994 gold album Gems. A video for her version was also filmed.

Overview

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History

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DeBarge had released one album that performed poorly on the charts, and they recorded their second album with their own songs, chiefly written by El DeBarge, the main lead singer and focal point of the group. "All This Love" was one of the songs, a song with a high tenor part; El DeBarge had written it a year earlier in the hopes that then-label mate and longtime idol Marvin Gaye would record it.

Gaye had served as El's inspiration for the song, hinted in the group's vocal harmonizing in the final part of the song, which was similar to Gaye's "I Want You" vocal style period. But by the following year, Gaye had left the label. Debarge recorded the song, produced by Berry Gordy's niece Iris. It was the third single from the album, also called All This Love.

The song was featured in a 1983 episode of the US daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Reception

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Much like their first hit, "I Like It", "All This Love" was immediately embraced by the R&B community while the group gained a pop fan base. In the US, The single reached number 5 on the Billboard R&B chart, number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart,[2] helping its parent album of the same name reach gold status by the summer of 1983.

Personnel

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  • Lead vocals, keyboards and rhythm arrangement - El DeBarge
  • Background vocals - DeBarge
  • Keyboards - James DeBarge
  • Guitar solo - José Feliciano
  • Drums - Ricky Lawson
  • Bass - Freddie Washington
  • Percussion by Nathan Hughes and Richard Heath
  • Guitars - Charles F. Fearing, Curtis A. Nolen, and Robben Ford
  • Rhythm, string and horn arrangements by Benjamin F. Wright, Jr.
  • Horns - Clarence Lawrey, George Bohanon, John Ervin, Cliff Ervin, Nolan A. Smith, Jr., Raymond L. Brown, Roy Poper and Mark DeBarge
  • Flute by Gerald A. Albright
  • Produced by El DeBarge and Iris Gordy
  • Written by El DeBarge
  • Engineering - Barney Perkins
  • Executive Producer - Berry Gordy

Cover versions

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Samples

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  • In 1988, rapper MC Shy D sampled the song for "Atlanta, That's Where I Stay".
  • West side rapper Skee-lo sampled "All This Love" in the "I Wish (Street Mix)" remix of his hit song "I Wish" from his 1995 debut album I Wish.
  • In 1996, Rapper Da Brat sampled the track for "Ghetto Love" on her second album Anuthatantrum.
  • In 1996, Tha Mexakinz sampled the track for "Problems" on their second album Tha Mexakinz.
  • Tionne Watkins (a.k.a. T-Boz) of TLC sung an interpolation of the first verse of the "Debarge" track as the opening and the same chorus.
  • In 2000, Master P sampled the beat for the song "Life I Live" featuring Short Circuit & Slay Sean off his album Ghetto Postage.
  • In 2001, AZ (rapper) sampled the track for his song called "Problems" off his album 9 Lives.
  • In 2004, Angie Stone sang an interpolation of the outro as the chorus to her song "I Wanna Thank Ya" from her album Stone Love.

Charts

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 150.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 74.
  3. ^ John Blake - Adventures of the Heart (1987) album releases & credits at Discogs
  4. ^ Calvin Brooks - My Favorite Thing (1992) album credits & releases at AllMusic
  5. ^ Pete Escovedo - Flying South (1995) album review by Gregg Juke, credits & releases at AllMusic
  6. ^ Original TV Soundtrack - New York Undercover: A Night at Natalie's (1998) album review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, credits & releases at AllMusic
  7. ^ Bill Cantos - Movie in the Night Sky (2000) album credits & releases at AllMusic
  8. ^ "Debarge Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  9. ^ "Debarge Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  10. ^ "Debarge Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  11. ^ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 6253." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 6, 1983. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  12. ^ "Talent Almanac 1984: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 52. December 24, 1983. p. TA-18.
  13. ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1983". Billboard. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  14. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 1983". Billboard. Retrieved March 27, 2021.