''All or Nothing'' is the debut studio album by dance pop duo
Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli were a German-French R&B duo from Munich. The group was founded by Frank Farian in 1988 and consisted of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. Their debut album, ''All or Nothing'' in Europe, reconfigured as ''Girl You Know It's True'' in ...
, released only in Europe on the
Hansa label in November 1988. In 1989, it was repackaged and retitled ''
Girl You Know It's True'' for release in the United States on the
Arista label, with several of the original album tracks replaced and/or remixed. After 1990, due to
lip-synching
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , the same as the word ''sink'', short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.
Audio for lip syncing is generated th ...
allegations, a disclaimer sticker was added on the cover to explicitly name the singers who provided vocals on the album.
Although ''All or Nothing'' was replaced in America with ''Girl You Know It's True'', ''All or Nothing'' is available on the American
iTunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,00 ...
.
In December 1990, singer-songwriter
David Clayton-Thomas
David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducte ...
sued Milli Vanilli for copyright infringement, alleging that the
title track
A title track is a song that has the same name as the album or film in which it appears. In the Korean music industry, the term is used to describe a promoted song on an album, akin to a single, regardless of the song's title.
Title track may a ...
used the melody from his 1968 composition "
Spinning Wheel
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning f ...
", a hit for his group
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is a jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation. In addition to original music, the group has performed popular songs by Laura N ...
.
''All or Nothing'' was included in
''Q'' magazine's 2006 list of the 50 worst albums ever made.
Track listing
Personnel
Milli Vanilli
*
Rob Pilatus
Rob or ROB may refer to:
Places
* Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia
* Roberts International Airport (IATA code ROB), in Monrovia, Liberia
People
* Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn
* Ro ...
– visual performance
*
Fab Morvan
Fabrice Maxime Sylvain Morvan (born 14 May 1966) is a French singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and model. He was half of the pop duo Milli Vanilli, along with Rob Pilatus, selling multi-platinum albums around the world. However, he was later i ...
– visual performance
Session musicians
*
Charles Shaw – lead vocals, backing vocals
*
John Davis – lead vocals
*
Brad Howell – lead vocals
*
Jens Gad
Jens Gad is a German producer, songwriter and guitarist of Danish parents. He started making music at young age.
Gad produces music for many artists (Sandra Cretu / Sandra Gambino) and was previously co-producer for the musical project, Enigma. ...
– guitars, arrangements
* Peter Weihe – guitars
* P.G. Wilder – keyboards, arrangements
*
Toby Gad – keyboards, arrangements
* Pit Loew – keyboards, arrangements
* Volker Barber – keyboards
*
Curt Cress – drums
*
Mel Collins
Melvyn Desmond Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician.
Collins has played in several progressive rock groups, having been a member of King Crimson on two occasions (the first from ...
– saxophone
* Dino Solera – horns, horn arrangements
* Felice Civitareale – horns
* Franz Weyerer – horns
* Jodie and Linda Rocco – backing vocals
* Felicia Taylor – backing vocals
* The Jackson Singers – backing vocals
* Herbert Gebhard – backing vocals
* Bimey Oberreit – backing vocals
* Peter Rishavy – backing vocals
Production
*
Frank Farian
Frank Farian (born Franz Reuther; 18 July 1941) is a German record producer, musician, singer and songwriter, who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., the Latin pop band No Mercy and the pop band Milli Vanilli. He frequently created voc ...
– producer
* Ingrid Segieth – production coordinator
* Tobias Freund – engineering
* Bernd Berwanger – engineering
* Norbert Janicke – engineering
* Jens Seekamp – engineering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Milli Vanilli albums
1988 debut albums
Albums produced by Frank Farian
Hansa Records albums
{{1980s-pop-album-stub