''I'll Give All My Love to You'' is the second

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by the American R&B recording artist

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. It was released on June 12, 1990, and went to number one on the

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chart and number 6 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It spawned Sweat's second and third number 1 R&B hits: " Make You Sweat" and the title track (both Top 20 pop hits), while "Merry Go Round" and "Your Love Part 2" were Top 5 R&B hits. This was the last Keith Sweat album under Vincent Davis' Vintertainment label, which severed ties with Elektra soon after the release of this album. On March 7, 1991, ''I'll Give All My Love to You'' was certified

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by the

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, for shipments of two million copies in the United States.RIAA - Gold & Platinum: Keith Sweat

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. Retrieved on April 18, 2011. The single "Make You Sweat" was certified gold by the RIAA on October 4, 1990, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.

Critical reception

In a review upon the album's release, ''

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'' gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars and commented that "this album discusses love, lost, found and reclaimed, and lust over grinding, pounding

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grooves".Keith Sweat - I'll Give All My Love To You CD Album
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'', the critic

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gave the album a "dud" rating,Christgau, Robert (1990)
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'' writer Connie Johnson wrote, "Sweat's debut album '' Make It Last Forever'' caught fire largely because of producer Teddy Riley, and his absence is strongly felt on this Sweat-produced follow-up".Johnson, Connie (July 15, 1990)
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'' complimented Sweat's vocals and singing style, but wrote that "despite all this passion, there's no obvious pop hit on the record ..Most of the tracks sound interchangeably slow and steamy".Sandow, Greg (June 15, 1990)
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editor Alex Henderson called the album "a respectable disc that sounds consistently heartfelt and sincere", writing that "For all its high-tech production gloss and use of

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elements, this self-produced CD reminds you that Sweat is quite aware of the great soul music of the 1970s".Henderson, Alex (August 1, 2003)
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Track listing

Personnel

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– lead vocals, background vocals, keyboards (tracks 5 and 6), producer, mixing *

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– keyboards, producer, drum programming, mixing *Jacci McGhee – vocals (track 8), background vocals *

Gerald Levert Gerald Edward Levert (July 13, 1966 – November 10, 2006) was an Americans, American singer-songwriter and Music Producer, producer. Levert performed with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon with the R&B vocal group, LeVert. Le ...

– performer *John Adams – keyboards *

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– keyboards, saxophone, drum programming *Charles "Poogie" Bell, Jr. – drum programming *Bobby Douglas – keyboards *Bobby Wooten – keyboards, producer, engineer, mixingKeith Sweat - ''I'll Give All My Love to You''
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Charts

Weekly charts

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Certifications

References

External links

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