Before all the drugs and self destruction. It honestly hurts my heart to know what the future held for them
I Like It


All This Love

EL had written "All This Love", for Marvin Gaye to sing. By the time they had he had finished writing the song, Marvin had left the label leaving El, to record it himself.

Can't imagine Marvin singing that song. So glad El did it instead.

I like these songs but both performances were lip synced and no extras (dancing)

Well, welcome to the 80s and the no frills world of soul train

scriptgirl said:

Oh I can. Marvin would have don't a great job. If you listen to Marvin's "After the Dance", which El did with FourPlay, you can here the similarities.

shorttrini said:

Those were the days...

WTF? Did you see his up to date "drug" arrest photo Makes a person not want to try drugs!

I didn't know that Randy DeBarge sang 'I Like It'. I always thought that was El.

violator said:

Randy also plays bass on the song also,Debarge was the truth they wrote wrote and arranged their material.

El does sing I like it-the bridge and the chorus and the high notes
Also, A few people on this board went to see el and family in chicago a few months ago and says he looked a lot better than in his mug shot

scriptgirl said:

I can...I can hear Marvin KILLING it. Especially the riffs where he emphasizes "All my love" and the "wooh's".

daPrettyman said:

Marvin would've taken "All This Love" somewhere the fuckin' else!

Timmy84 said:

Off topic and I still say El sang it best. I have never been able to stand Marvin Gaye

scriptgirl said:

Offcourse El sings it best,it's his signature song, through the years i heard and saw many great singers tackled trying to cover All this love.
It's one off those songs nobody should touch,

shorttrini said:

Nah he didn't write that song for Marvin, btw the storie goes Marvin let his family send DeBarge albums to Belgium, when he was living there.

scriptgirl said:

You can't stand Marvin wow, never expect to hear that from an DeBarge fan

Never was a fan.
Yes, All This Love and Stay with Me are signature El tunes. There is a video of Chico singing Stay With Me and although the arrangements are nice and Chico can sing, he can't really do it justice. His voice is lower and rougher than El's.

Chico doing Stay With Me

newsoul08 said:

Yes Randy is one of the lead vocals on I Like It, IMO Randy never got a chance to showcase his vocal because he has a nice vocal style i like, also he kills it on BASS, totally AWESOME!

marzellus said:

I beg to differ,he has said so on many occassions. Below is an excerpt from a from an old Rolling Stone article about the group.

In 1982, having released one album that didn't go anywhere, DeBarge went into recording their follow-up with their own songs, chiefly handled by El DeBarge, who was also the main lead singer and focal point of the group, including the song, "All This Love", in which DeBarge sung in a high tenor and had written it in a year earlier in hopes then-label mate and longtime idol Marvin Gaye would record it. Gaye had served as El's inspiration for the song, hinted in the group's harmonizing in the final part of the song, which was similar to Gaye's "I Want You" vocal style period. By the following year, Gaye had left the label and DeBarge ended up recording it themselves. Producing this song with Berry Gordy's niece Iris, the single was issued as the third release from All This Love.

marzellus said:

The entire DeBarge family, if they ever read this, will be like "this girl's crazy!"

s'alright, I don't mind being different. The Debarges have a lot more to worry about than my musical tastes.

scriptgirl said:

I know, I don't take it personal though I'm a big fan of Marvin.

Now El needs to get his shit together.
[Edited 11/11/08 19:45pm]

I hate to say it and I hope I am wrong, but El may never get it together

scriptgirl said:

bboy87 said:

I had the full episode from it's original broadcast. They wore the same outfits that they had on the album cover

shorttrini said:

That would have been PERFECT for Marvin

bboy, you mean when Debarge was singing Time Will Reveal. On this appearance, the didn't wear their album cover outfits