"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 albumGems. A video for her version was also filmed.
Overview
History
In 1982, having released one album that did not go anywhere, DeBarge went into recording their follow-up with their own songs, chiefly handled by El DeBarge, who was also the main lead singer and focal point of the group, including the song, "All This Love", in which DeBarge sung in a high tenor and had written it in a year earlier in hopes 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. By the following year, Gaye had left the label and DeBarge ended up recording it themselves. Producing this song with Berry Gordy's niece Iris, the single was issued as the third release from All This Love. The song was featured in a 1983 episode of the US daytime soap operaDays of Our Lives.
Reception
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 BillboardR&B chart, number 17 on the BillboardHot 100, and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, helping its parent album of the same name reach gold status by the summer of 1983.
The song was re-recorded by R&B legend Patti LaBelle on her 1994 album, Gems. LaBelle's version, produced by Teddy Riley, was released as a single and peaked at #42 on the Billboard R&B chart. DeBarge and LaBelle later sung the song together as a duet live in concert.
Detroit-based guitarist Calvin Brooks recorded an instrumental version of it on his 1992 album My Favorite Thing.
Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Bill Cantos recorded a Latin jazz-oriented version on his 2000 album Movie in the Night Sky.
Mexican-American percussionist Pete Escovedo, along with saxophonist Gerald Albright did an instrumental version of "All This Love" for Escovedo's 1995 album Flying South, which had considerable air time on smooth jazz radio stations.
The song was covered by Boyz II Men and released on their 2007 compilation album of Motown hits.
In 1996 R&B group Xscape covered the song on the Americanpolice dramaNew York Undercover episode 44 "Sympathy for the Devil" and it also appears on the 1998.
Samples
West side rapper Skee-lo sampled "All This Love" in the "I Wish " 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 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 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.
