"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

History

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

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, and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, helping its parent album of the same name reach gold status by the summer of 1983.

Personnel

Cover versions

Samples

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts