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
Genre	New jack swing
Length	4:56
Label	Vintertainment/Elektra
Songwriter(s)	Teddy Riley, Keith Sweat
Producer(s)	Keith Sweat Teddy Riley
Keith Sweat singles chronology
"Something Just Ain't Right" (1988) "Make It Last Forever" (1988) "Don't Stop Your Love" (1988)

"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 then-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" (Carey had also previously sampled the song on her 1991 single "Can't Let Go"). 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. Portions of it can also be heard in the chorus of the song "Walk me Home" by Mandy Moore. Jazz musician Paul Jackson, Jr. covered the song with background vocals from Luther Vandross from his 1990 album Out of the Shadows.

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