Make It Last Forever (song)

"Make It Last Forever"
Single by Keith Sweat featuring Jacci McGhee
from the album Make It Last Forever
Released	January 9, 1988
Format	12" single, cassette single
Genre	R&B, quiet storm, new jack swing
Length	4:56
Label	Vintertainment/Elektra
Writer(s)	Teddy Riley, Keith Sweat
Producer(s)	Keith Sweat Teddy Riley
Keith Sweat featuring Jacci McGhee singles chronology
"Something Just Ain't Right" (1988) "Make It Last Forever" (1988) "Don't Stop Your Love" (1988)
Make It Last Forever track listing "I Want Her" (4) "Make It Last Forever" (5) "In The Rain" (6) Live track listing "Freak Me(Interlude)" (3) "Make It Last Forever" (where the Roland D-50 preset Fantasia and the high pitched and echoing Roland TR-808 cowbell were heard and that was recorded in 1987) (4) "Right and Wrong Way" (5)

"Make It Last Forever" is a 1988 single by Keith Sweat and Jacci McGhee. Taken as the second single and the title track from Sweat's debut album, the single peaked at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a hit on the Hot Black Singles chart, where it peaked at #2.

Covers

Years later, the song would be covered by Chanté Moore and her husband, Kenny Lattimore. Large portions of the song would be interpolated in the 2000 "Make It Last Remix" of Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You". It was also covered in Hip-Hop as well with the song "Makin' Cash Forever" by Houston, Texas hip-hop group Botany Boyz and "Collect Call" by T.I. on his album Paper Trail. In the fall of 2011, the song was sampled in the remix of the Jacob Latimore song "Like 'Em All" featuring rapper Issa Thompson.

Charts

Chart (1988-1989)	Peak position
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)	66
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	59
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	2

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