All in Love Is Fair (album)

{{short description|1974 album by Nancy Wilson}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{Infobox album

| name = All in Love Is Fair

| type = studio

| artist = Nancy Wilson

| cover = Wilson_All_in_Love_Is_Fair_Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 1974

| recorded = 1974

| venue = Hollywood

| studio = The Sound Factory

| genre = R&B, Soul

| length =

| label = Capitol

| producer = Gene Page

| prev_title = I Know I Love Him

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = Come Get to This

| next_year = 1975

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000842617|first=Jason|last=Ankeny}}

| rev2 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|chapter= Nancy Wilson |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz|edition=Rev Upd|year=2004|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=1852271833| page=941}}

}}

All in Love Is Fair is a studio album by American singer Nancy Wilson, released by Capitol Records in August 1974. It was her first album with producer Gene Page, who also did the arrangements and conducting and gave the album a more R&B-oriented sound. Musicians on the album include Ray Parker Jr., Wah Wah Watson, and Tom Scott. Marvin Gaye is also listed on the back cover as "The Phantom," with "warmest thanks."{{Cite AV media notes|title=All in Love Is Fair|title-link=All in Love Is Fair (Nancy Wilson album)|others=Nancy Wilson|year=1974|type=liner notes|publisher=Capitol Records|id= ST 11317}} All in Love Is Fair includes one of the few songs co-written by Wilson.

Jason Ankeny at AllMusic hails Wilson's "sultriness and soulfulness. Page swaddles the singer in billowing strings and slow-burn funk rhythms, weaving a series of luminously sensual backdrops that wouldn't be out of place on Motown or Philadelphia International." He also notes that "the music never veers so far into the mainstream that Wilson abandons her jazz roots entirely, and she brings to the songs the intelligence and articulateness one would expect."

All in Love Is Fair peaked at No. 11 on Billboard's Soul LPs chart{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nancy-wilson/chart-history/blp/|title=Nancy Wilson All in Love Is Fair Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=11 December 2018}} and No. 97 on the Billboard 200.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nancy-wilson/chart-history/tlp/|title=Nancy Wilson All in Love Is Fair Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=11 December 2018}} The song "Streetrunner" reached No. 46 on Billboard's Best Selling Soul Singles.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nancy-wilson/chart-history/bsi/|title=Nancy Wilson Streetrunner Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=11 December 2018}}

In 2011, SoulMusic Records released a digitally remastered version of the album, paired with Come Get to This, Wilson's next album, which was also produced by Gene Page.{{cite web |url=http://www.soulmusic.info/main.asp?S=3&T=36&ART=1384 |title=NANCY WILSON: ALL IN LOVE IS FAIR/COME GET TO THIS (SMCR 25010) |last=Nathan |first=David |author-link=David Nathan (music writer)| access-date=7 December 2018}}