All Our Love

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = All Our Love | type = [[Album]] | artist = [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]] | cover = All Our Love.jpg | alt = | released = 1987 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Soul music|Soul]] | length = | label = [[MCA Records|MCA]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA6-PA2013|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=September 8, 2009|publisher=Penguin}}</ref> | producer = * [[Calloway (band)|Reggie Calloway and Vincent Calloway]] (Track 1) * Howie Rice (Tracks 2, 3 & 7) * Alex Brown (Tracks 4 & 10) * [[Ron Kersey]] (Tracks 4, 8 & 10) * [[Nick Martinelli]] (Tracks 5 & 6) * [[Sam Dees]] (Track 8) * [[Burt Bacharach]] and [[Carole Bayer Sager]] (Tracks 9 & 11) | prev_title = Life | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = | next_year = }} '''''All Our Love''''' is an album by the [[soul music|soul]] quartet [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]], released in 1987.<ref name=RS/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilker |first1=Deborah |title=Knight and Pips Spread All Their Love |work=Sun Sentinel |date=6 May 1988 |department=Features Showtime |page=3}}</ref> It was the group's last studio album before the Pips retired and [[Gladys Knight|Knight]] embarked on a solo career.<ref name=CL/>

The album peaked at No. 39 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/gladys-knight-and-the-pips/chart-history/tlp/|title=Gladys Knight And The Pips|website=Billboard}}</ref> It was the quartet's sixth gold album.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones IV |first1=James T. |title=Gladys Knight's new day on the top of the charts |work=USA Today |date=28 June 1988 |page=6D}}</ref>

==Production== [[Carole Bayer Sager]] and [[Burt Bacharach]] wrote and produced two tracks on the album.<ref name=NY/>

==Critical reception== {{music ratings |rev1 = [[AllMusic]] |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-our-love-mw0000193282|title=All Our Love Gladys Knight & the Pips|website=AllMusic}}</ref> |rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]] |rev2score = B+<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Gladys+Knight+&+the+Pips|title=Gladys Knight|website=Robert Christgau}}</ref> |rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |pages=891–892}}</ref> |rev4 = ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' |rev4score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tucker |first1=Ken |title=The Latest Offering by Knight and Pips |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=3 Jan 1988 |page=F8}}</ref> |rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' |rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=405}}</ref> }} [[AllMusic]] 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."<ref name="auto"/> [[Robert Christgau]] thought that "Knight has one of those burgundy voices, designed to age, and since her albums have rarely done it justice, the edgy writing and overall strength of this multiproducer soul-dance-pop-whatever comeback is a gift."<ref name="auto1"/> ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' wrote that "soaring above all that modern production is the unmistakable Gladys Knight alto."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Sounding Off |magazine=Ebony |date=Apr 1988 |volume=43 |issue=6 |page=29}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' 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."<ref name="NY">{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=Pop Album of the Week |work=The New York Times |date=18 Dec 1987 |page=C31}}</ref>

==Track listing== #"[[Love Overboard]]" ([[Reginald Calloway|Reggie Calloway]]) – 5:26 #"Lovin' on Next to Nothin'" ([[Jeff Pescetto]], Howie Rice, [[Alan Rich]]) – 6:09 #"Thief in Paradise" (Nan O'Byrne, [[Tom Snow (songwriter)|Tom Snow]]) – 5:05 #"You" (Alex Brown, [[Ron Kersey]]) – 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]]) – 5:24 #"Love Is Fire (Love Is Ice)" ([[Burt Bacharach]], [[Carole Bayer Sager]]) – 4:37 #"Point of View" (Alan Brown, Robin Smith) – 4:19 #"Overnight Success" (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager) – 4:56

== Personnel ==

'''The Pips''' * [[Gladys Knight]] – lead vocals * [[William Guest (singer)|William Guest]] – vocals * [[Bubba Knight]] – vocals * [[Edward Patten]] – vocals

'''Musicians''' * [[George Duke]] – acoustic piano (1) * Joel Davis – keyboards (1) * David Ervin – additional keyboards (1) * [[Jeff Lorber]] – keyboards (2), drums (2) * Howie Rice – instruments (2, 7), keyboards (3), guitars (3), drum programming (3) * Elliot Wolff – synthesizers (3), drum programming (3) * [[Ron Kersey]] – keyboards (4, 8, 10), arrangements (4, 10) * Randy Cantor – keyboards (5, 6), synthesizers (5, 6), rhythm arrangements (5) * [[Billy Preston]] – keyboards (6), synthesizers (6) * Donald Robinson – keyboards (6), synthesizers (6) * [[Sam Dees]] – keyboards (8), backing vocals (8) * [[Burt Bacharach]] – synthesizers (9), string arrangements (11) * Robbie Buchanan – synthesizers (9, 11) * [[David Foster]] – synthesizers (9) * [[Randy Kerber]] – [[Yamaha DX7|DX7 Rhodes]] (9, 11) * Gene Robinson – guitars (1) * Spencer Bean – guitars (4, 8, 10) * Herb Smith – guitars (4) * Randy Bowland – guitars (5) * Joe Fusco – guitars (5) * Ron Jennings – guitars (6) * [[Dann Huff]] – guitars (9, 11) * [[Freddie Washington (bassist)|Freddie Washington]] – bass (1) * [[Melvin Lee Davis]] – bass (4) * Doug Grigsby – bass (5) * [[Neil Stubenhaus]] – bass (9, 11) * [[Cashmere (band)|Daryl Burgee]] – drums (5), percussion (6) * Jim Salamone – drum programming (6) * [[Paul Leim]] – drums (8) * [[John Robinson (drummer)|John Robinson]] – drums (9, 11) * [[Rose Royce|Terral Santiel]] – [[conga]]s (2) * Pablo Batista – percussion (5, 6) * [[Paulinho da Costa]] – percussion (11) * Sam Peake – saxophone solo (6) * [[Dave Koz]] – saxophone solo (7) * [[Tom Snow]] – arrangements (3) * Alex Brown – arrangements (4, 10), BGV arrangements (4, 10) * Larry Davis – horn arrangements (6) * [[Endre Granat]] – concertmaster (11) * Roy Galloway – additional backing vocals (4, 10) * Daryl Phinnessee – additional backing vocals (4, 10) * [[Oren Waters]] – additional backing vocals (4, 10)

'''Production''' * Gladys Knight – executive producer * Bubba Knight – executive producer * Frank DeCaro – production coordinator (10) * Jeff Adamoff – art direction * September – art direction, design * [[Todd Gray (artist)|Todd Gray]] – photography

'''Technical''' * Steve Hall – mastering at Future Disc (Hollywood, California) * Ron Gresham – recording (1) * Taavi Mote – mixing (1), remix engineer (2) * Kirk Ferraoli – recording (2) * [[Louil Silas Jr.]] – remixing (2) * Erik Zobler – remix engineer (3, 7) * Hill Brim Swimmer – recording (4, 10), mixing (4, 10) * Glen Barrett – recording (5, 6) * Mike Tarsia – recording (5, 6) * Bruce Weeden – mixing (5, 6) * Steve MacMillan – recording (8) * [[Mick Guzauski]] – recording (9, 11) * Craig Burbidge – additional recording (1) * Peter Arata – assistant engineer (1) * Elmer Flores – assistant engineer (1) * Scott McMinn – assistant engineer (5, 6) * Harry Mosley – assistant engineer (5, 6) * Adam Silverman – assistant engineer (5, 6) * Joe Schiff – assistant engineer (8) * Darren Klein – assistant engineer (9, 11)

==References== {{reflist}}

[[Category:Gladys Knight & the Pips albums]] [[Category:1987 albums]]