All For You

 

Artist: Janet Jackson

Title: All For You

Album: Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 7

 

This is based on the 1980 song "The Glow Of Love," by the Funk group Change. Luther Vandross was lead singer of the group at the time.

 

Jimmy Jam, who wrote and produced this song with his partner Terry Lewis (Jackson also got a songwriting credit), told us that working with Janey was great because she was receptive to so many ideas and styles. Said Jimmy: "When we did 'All For You' and I played her the 'Glow of Love' sample from Change, she had never heard that song before. But she loved it."

 

"All For You" was used as the name of Jackson's 2001 tour. Some of the shows had to be postponed or canceled when Jackson needed emergency dental surgery. One show in Madison Square Garden was bumped for a WNBA playoff game.

 

This won the 2001 Grammy for Best Pop Dance Recording.

 

It was the longer-running #1 song of 2001, topping the US chart for 7 weeks.