Songoftheday 1/7/13 - I had some problems & no one could seem to solve them, but you found the answer you told me to take a chance...

DeBarge - "All This Love"
from the album All This Love (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is by the sibling soul quintet DeBarge, who broke through with their single "I Like It" in the beginning of 1983. For their third single, the vocal group released the title track from their sophomore album, written by El DeBarge originally for Marvin Gaye, and sung in his trademark falsetto...

"All This Love" was DeBarge's first big pop hit, reaching the top-20 on the pop chart and going all the way to #1 on the adult-contemporary (soft-rock) chart. It also became the siblings' second top-5 R&B single as well, and set them up nicely for their next record released later that year.

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...and here's the group with High Inergy performing "All This Love" as part of a medley that got them their first big TV exposure...

Jazz violinist John Blake recorded a version of the song with disco singer Gwen Guthrie...

Soul legend Patti LaBelle covered "All This Love" in 1994 and peaked right below the top-40 on the R&B chart..

The "Street Mix" of rapper Skee-Lo's 1995 Top-40 hit "I Wish" interpolated the instrumental of the record...

...as did Da Brat's "Ghetto Love" from 1995 with T-Boz rewriting the lyrics in the 1996 top-20 hit...

About the same time, jazz-funk musician and Sheila E's dad Pete Escovedo had a cool, smooth instrumental version of the track...

R&B quartet Xscape recorded "All This Love" for the movie New York Undercover in 1998...

In 2001 rapper AZ sampled the song for his minor R&B hit "Problems"...

...and in 2004 Angie Stone cribbed the classic vocal breakdown at the end of song for her hook for "I Wanna Thank Ya"...

90s soul kings Boyz II Men gave a more acoustic take on the record in 2007...

Finally, legendary vocalist Johnny Mathis took El's cue and used a "Sexual Healing"-like backdrop to his cover version...

Up tomorrow: The Davies' go out for the night.