''All Our Love'' is an album by the
soul
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quartet
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips were an American R&B, soul and funk family music group from Atlanta, Georgia, that remained active on the music charts and performing circuit for over three decades starting from the early 1950s.
Starting out as simply ...
, released in 1987.
[ It was the group's last studio album before the Pips retired and ]Knight
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embarked on a solo career.[
The album peaked at No. 39 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It became the quartet's sixth gold album.
]
Production
Carole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born Carol Bayer on March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, singer, and songwriter.
Early life and career
Bayer Sager was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. Her family was Jewish. She grad ...
and Burt Bacharach wrote and produced two tracks on the album.[
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Critical reception
AllMusic
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wrote that "most of the time, ''All Our Love'' sounds fairly organic rather than forced or contrived ... Sometimes excellent and sometimes merely decent, the album falls short of essential."Ebony
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'' wrote that "soaring above all that modern production is the unmistakable Gladys Knight alto."The New York Times
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'' wrote: "Having landed on MCA, the venerable pop-soul vocal group has made an album that subtly updates its sound without tampering with a basic recipe in which the Pips' voices punctuate and curl around Gladys Knight's warm dusky alto."
Track listing
#" Love Overboard" (Reggie Calloway
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)5:26
#"Lovin' on Next to Nothin'" (Jeff Pescetto
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, Howie Rice, Alan Rich
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)6:09
#"Thief in Paradise" (Nan O'Byrne, Tom Snow
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Biography
Snow has written songs for Gayle McCormick "(Even a Fool Would Let Go" with Kerry Chater – a song covered by a number of artists including Kenny ...
)5:05
#"You" (Alex Brown, Ron Kersey
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)5:00
#"Let Me Be the One" (Joe Jefferson, Rosa Jefferson)4:39
#"Complete Recovery" (Anne Godwin, Ian Prince)4:35
#"Say What You Mean" (Michael Gaffey, Peter Glenister)5:19
#"It's Gonna Take All Our Love" (Sam Dees
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Ea ...
)5:24
#"Love Is Fire (Love Is Ice)" ( Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born Carol Bayer on March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, singer, and songwriter.
Early life and career
Bayer Sager was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. Her family was Jewish. She grad ...
)4:37
#"Point of View" (Alan Brown, Robin Smith)4:19
#"Overnight Success" (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager)4:56
References
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Gladys Knight & the Pips albums
1987 albums