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Marvin Gaye (song) "Marvin Gaye" is the debut single recorded by American singer Charlie Puth featuring American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Atlantic Records released it on February 10, 2015, as the lead single from Puth's debut album, "Nine Track Mind" (2016), which first appeared on his third EP, "Some Type of Love" (2015). Puth co-wrote it with Julie Frost, Jacob Luttrell and Nick Seeley, and produced it alone. "Marvin Gaye" topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and New Zealand, and peaked within the top 5 in Australia. Marc Klasfeld directed the music video, which was released on April
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Marvin Gaye (song) "Marvin Gaye" is the debut single recorded by American singer Charlie Puth featuring American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Atlantic Records released it on February 10, 2015, as the lead single from Puth's debut album, "Nine Track Mind" (2016), which first appeared on his third EP, "Some Type of Love" (2015). Puth co-wrote it with Julie Frost, Jacob Luttrell and Nick Seeley, and produced it alone. "Marvin Gaye" topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and New Zealand, and peaked within the top 5 in Australia. Marc Klasfeld directed the music video, which was released on April
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I'm sure some of the other dancers were making out. I think that's it though". An alternate version of "Marvin Gaye" was released replacing Meghan Trainor with rapper Wale. The remix is featured on the Japanese edition of Puth's album "Nine Track Mind". Marvin Gaye (song) "Marvin Gaye" is the debut single recorded by American singer Charlie Puth featuring American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Atlantic Records released it on February 10, 2015, as the lead single from Puth's debut album, "Nine Track Mind" (2016), which first appeared on his third EP, "Some Type of Love" (2015). Puth co-wrote it with Julie
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previous album, 1973's "Let's Get It On". Feel All My Love Inside "Feel All My Love Inside" is an album track issued by Marvin Gaye on his 1976 album, "I Want You". The song was co-written by Gaye and collaborators Leon Ware and Arthur "T-Boy" Ross. The erotic tune, much like "Come Live with Me Angel" and "Since I Had You", featured sexual moans by an unidentified female voice while Gaye sings seductively through. The song's personal nature related to Marvin's relationship with girlfriend Janis Hunter, then nineteen at the time of recording of the song. Much of the album
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spanning from his 1962's "Stubborn" to material from his "What's Going On" album, while a 1986 re-issue featured songs from "Let's Get It On", "I Want You" and duets with Diana Ross. The 1995 re-issue deleted some of the duets from the other two releases and included material from Gaye's later period (1978–1981). The set has since been out of stock for some time. Anthology (Marvin Gaye album) Anthology: The Best of Marvin Gaye is a double CD chronology of American singer Marvin Gaye's career throughout his twenty-year tenure with Motown Records from his first big hit, 1962's "Stubborn Kind
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Puth signed with Atlantic Records in January 2015. Puth and Meghan Trainor announced a duet, and "Marvin Gaye" was released as Puth's debut single on February 10, 2015. Puth said during an interview with "Billboard" that he had come up with the drumbeat for "Marvin Gaye" while sitting at a cafe in Hollywood, adding that he and Trainor "were at a party one night, and we were exchanging the new music, and she heard "Marvin Gaye" and asked, "Who else is singing on this? It should be a duet. Let me sing on it!" So I'm like ... OK, Meghan
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1975, Marvin Gaye had come off of the commercial and critical success of his landmark studio album "Let's Get It On" (1973), its successful supporting tour following the album's release, and "Diana & Marvin" (1973), a duet project with Diana Ross. However, similar to the conception and recording of "Let's Get It On", Gaye had struggled to come up with an album as an appropriate follow-up. And much like "Let's Get It On" Gaye reached for outside help, this time seeking the assistance of Leon Ware, a singer and songwriter who had found previous success writing hits for fellow Motown
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tribute album, "". In the years since his death, Motown has issued "You're the Man" on several compilations. For decades, the original monophonic single and the 1974 Marvin Gaye Anthology were the only available versions. Some compilations, such as 1995's "The Best of Marvin Gaye" and 2001's "The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" include a version of this, sourced from the original 45 but with the two parts edited back together to create a single 5:47 track. The 2001 Deluxe Edition of "Let's Get It On" included two further contemporaneous versions. The so-called "Alternate Version 1" (7:24) is a radically
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Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" is the debuting single for singer Marvin Gaye, released as Tamla 54041, in May 1961. It was also the first release off Gaye's debut album, "The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye", in which most of the material was the singer's failed attempt at making an 'adult' record compared to Motown's younger R&B sound. In 1960, Marvin Gaye moved to Detroit with his mentor Harvey Fuqua, who had first booked him as a co-lead singer of "Harvey & the Moonglows", a splinter version of the popular fifties doo-wop group,
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album to Motown-CEO Berry Gordy, the mogul was appreciative of the songs, including a rough version of "I Want You". But after hearing it, he convinced Ware to give some of the songs to Marvin Gaye, who was coming off the release of his acclaimed 1973 record, "Let's Get It On", his final duet recording with Diana Ross and a commercially successful live album and was coming off a US tour at the time. Marvin, who called himself a perfectionist, had struggled with creating a follow-up album to "Let's Get It On". When Ware played Gaye the rough draft of
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Marvin Gaye Live! Marvin Gaye Live! is the second live album issued by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released on June 19, 1974 by Tamla Records. In 1973, Gaye released his greatest-selling album, "Let's Get It On", which made him the biggest-selling Motown artist during his lifetime. Motown Records, Gaye's label for over a decade, had long wanted Gaye to promote his recordings with a national tour but the rebellious singer, who had begun suffering from stage fright after the collapse of his beloved singing duet partner Tammi Terrell in October 1967 and whom later died of a brain tumor two
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Wanna Get to Know You "Wanna Get to Know You" is a song recorded by G-Unit. It was released in January 2004 as the third single from their 2003 debut album, "Beg for Mercy". It was released to radios on January 13, 2004. The song features R&B singer, Joe, who sings the chorus. The first verse of the song is rapped by Young Buck, followed by Lloyd Banks, third verse followed by Tony Yayo and the final verse is rapped by 50 Cent. The song is produced by Red Spyda and samples heavily from a Marvin Gaye song, "Come Live
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with synths similar to Ego Tripping Out. Praise (Marvin Gaye song) "Praise" is a 1981 gospel-inspired disco number released by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. The song, written by Gaye, is a tribute to not only his church upbringing but also to the sound of then-label mate Stevie Wonder, who is given a shout out on the song by Gaye. In the song, he persuades a lady to be positive in difficult times and let her "love come shining through". He then moves forward to praise God, similar to how a preacher would recite such passages from The Bible. The
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Praise (Marvin Gaye song) "Praise" is a 1981 gospel-inspired disco number released by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. The song, written by Gaye, is a tribute to not only his church upbringing but also to the sound of then-label mate Stevie Wonder, who is given a shout out on the song by Gaye. In the song, he persuades a lady to be positive in difficult times and let her "love come shining through". He then moves forward to praise God, similar to how a preacher would recite such passages from The Bible. The song, equipped with horns, a propulsive drum
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before, to sixties Motown classics such as "I'll Be Doggone", "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It through the Grapevine", to seventies standards such as "What's Going On", "Trouble Man" and "Let's Get It On". The Montreux set was later released as a CD/DVD in 2003. Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 is a taped performance of singer Marvin Gaye's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded on July 17, 1980. Gaye included this performance as part of a European tour. Gaye performs a majority
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album chart for two weeks while resting at #8 on the pop album chart. The live version of "Distant Lover" created such a frenetic response that Motown issued the live song as a single where it reached #28 on the pop chart and #15 on the R&B charts in the late summer of 1974. The album would go on to sell over a million copies. Marvin Gaye Live! Marvin Gaye Live! is the second live album issued by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released on June 19, 1974 by Tamla Records. In 1973, Gaye released his greatest-selling album, "Let's Get It
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While the majority of the album's songs were conceived by Ware, "I Want You" was transformed into a biographical centerpiece for Gaye, who was then in a volatile marriage with Anna Gordy, sister to Berry Gordy, and also in a long-standing affair with Janis Hunter, who would later become the mother of his two youngest children. Gaye and Hunter were introduced to each other by producer Ed Townsend in 1973 at Hitsville West, while Townsend and Gaye were recording "Let's Get It On". In his book "Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, and Demons of Marvin Gaye", the author and
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into their music. On September 18, 2001, "Let's Get It On" was reissued by Motown as a two-disc deluxe edition release, featuring 24-bit digital remastering of the original album's recordings, previously unissued material and a 24-page booklet which contains the original LP liner notes by Marvin Gaye, as well as essays from Gaye biographers David Ritz and Ben Edmonds. Let's Get It On Let's Get It On is the thirteenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye. It was released on August 28, 1973, by Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during June 1970 to
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Everybody Needs Love (Marvin Gaye song) "Everybody Needs Love" is a 1977 song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye and issued on the singer's confessional 1978 album, "Here, My Dear". Though most of the songs on the album were based on a mostly antagonistic view of Marvin's first wife, Anna Gaye, a few songs like this stood out which discussed how everybody needed love. Co-composed with "Let's Get It On" co-writer Ed Townsend, the song was based on a religious theme and was switched around by Marvin in certain areas including the lyrics "And my father/he needs love/that's true,
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for inclusion by the Library of Congress to its National Recording Registry. In addition, four of his songs – "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "What's Going On", "Let's Get It On" and "Sexual Healing" – made it on the "Rolling Stone" list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 2005, Marvin Gaye was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. In 2006, a park that Gaye frequented as a teenager called Watts Branch Park in Washington was renamed Marvin Gaye Park. Three years later, the 5200 block of Foote Street NE in Deanwood,
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On." The song featured Nona Gaye in the video and later peaked at #5 on the R&B chart. At least two tribute albums of Gaye's have been released: 1995's "" and 1999's "". Starting in 1985, there have been annual Marvin Gaye Day celebrations in the city of Washington, D.C., Gaye's hometown. The day was officiated by then-mayor Marion Barry on the day of Gaye's 46th birthday. Since then, a non-profit organization has helped to organize Marvin Gaye Day celebrations in the city. In 1986, Marvin's mother Alberta founded the Marvin P. Gaye Jr. Memorial Foundation, which is dedicated to
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Marvin's 22nd birthday. Before its release, however, Marvin sought to begin his solo career with a new name. Inspired by Sam Cooke, Marvin added an "e" to his last name therefore becoming forever known as Marvin Gaye. Despite regional success in Detroit, the song failed to enter either the pop or R&B chart on the national "Billboard" magazine. Mary Wells later covered the song for her own debut Motown release, "Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance". Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" is the debuting single for singer Marvin Gaye,
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Together (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells album) Together is the first and only studio album released by the duo team of American Motown artists Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells. It was released on the Motown label on April 15, 1964. The album brought together the rising star Gaye with Wells, an established star with a number-one pop hit to her name (1964's "My Guy"), singing mostly standards and show tunes, in the hopes that Gaye would benefit from the exposure. This album became the first charted album credited to Gaye, peaking at number forty-two on the "Billboard" Pop Albums chart
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Divided Soul Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye is a 1985 biography of American soul singer Marvin Gaye. The biography was written by music reviewer David Ritz including conversations he had with the singer, who put the biography together shortly after Gaye's death at the hands of his father Marvin Gay, Sr. in 1984. The book came together after Gaye had contacted Ritz shortly after seeing a review Ritz had given on "Rolling Stone" about the album, "Here, My Dear", criticizing critics who he felt didn't get Marvin's message in the album, which was panned at the time of
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early mentor of Gaye who assisted him in production of the song and its parent album, "Midnight Love". Fuqua whispers, "get up, wake up", four times before the sounds of a rhythmic keyboard. Afterwards, Gaye sings an ad-lib before the first verse. As Gaye sings the verses, background vocals (provided by Gaye and Gordon Banks) are heard singing, "heal me, my darlin'," while Gaye sings the lyrics. During the chorus, sounds of a harmonious synthesizer are heard before Gaye reaches a vocal bridge, that is led by Gaye and Gordon Banks providing a rhythm guitar solo. In the album version
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on his 1974 live album, "Marvin Gaye Live!". Keep Gettin' It On "Keep Gettin' It On", or "Let's Get It On, Pt. 2", was a sequel of the title track on Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, "Let's Get It On". The song was seen as a continuation of the title track from the album. It was the final composition and production between Gaye and Townsend on the first half of the album. The song featured some political overtones with Gaye lamenting, "won't you rather make love, sugar, as opposed to war?" The basis of this song was recorded as a challenge
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Marvin Gaye on his "Rhythm Revue" program. An eclectic group of artists from Marvin's own daughter, Nona Gaye to the UK soul and pop diva, Lisa Stansfield's reading on "Just to Keep You Satisfied" to Bono's take on "Save the Children". The artists selected were, for the most part, some of the biggest stars of 1990s pop and soul. Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye Inner City Blues: the Music of Marvin Gaye (also known as "Inner City Blues: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye") is a tribute album to soul singer Marvin Gaye who died in 1984. It
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Let's Get It On (song) "Let's Get It On" is a song and hit single by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released June 15, 1973, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. The song was recorded on March 22, 1973, at Hitsville West in Los Angeles, California. The song features romantic and sexual lyricism and funk instrumentation by The Funk Brothers. The title track of Gaye's landmark album "Let's Get It On" (1973), it was written by Marvin Gaye and producer Ed Townsend. "Let's Get It On" became Gaye's most successful single for Motown and one of his most well-known songs. With the
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Stone"s Vince Aletti criticized Leon Ware's production for being too low-key, and perceived that Gaye lacks the certain passion in his lyricism and singing from his previous records. Aletti compared the album to Gaye's previous work, writing that "Gaye seems determined to take over as soul's master philosopher in the bedroom, a position that requires little but an affectation of constant, rather jaded horniness. The pose has already been established in "Let's Get It On", on which Gaye was hot, tender, aggressive, soothing and casually raunchy—the modern lover with all his contradictions. "I Want You" continues in the same vein
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the release of his first single, Gaye was teased about his surname, with some jokingly asking, "Is Marvin Gay?" Gaye changed the spelling of his surname by adding an "e", in the same way as did Sam Cooke. Author David Ritz wrote that Gaye did this to silence rumors of his sexuality, and to put more distance between himself and his father. Gaye released his first single, "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide", in May 1961, with the album "The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye", following a month later. Gaye's initial recordings failed commercially and he spent most of 1961
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Marvin Gaye's three decade-plus music career throughout his tenure in Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s concluding with his final big hit, 1982's "Sexual Healing" from his brief tenure with Columbia Records before the singer's death in 1984. Re-released later in 2005 under Universal Records' "Gold" series, it has since been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The Very Best of Marvin Gaye The Very Best of Marvin Gaye is the title of two compilations (American and European) by Motown artist Marvin Gaye. Released in 1994, "The Very Best" is the best-selling (and highest charting) Marvin
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Marvin III was struggling with kidney failure and looked for a transplant. In 2014, Marvin III received a transplant from a Cincinnati man named Rick Greene. Gaye met 17-year old Janis Hunter in March 1973 while working on his "Let's Get It On" album with producer Ed Townsend. Hunter was the child of jazz musician Slim Gaillard. Townsend's former girlfriend Barbara Hunter arrived in the studio with Janis that month. Janis's presence served as inspiration for Gaye during the making of the album. After their first date, Gaye was inspired to record the composition, "If I Should Die Tonight". Their
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Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown". Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, "M.P.G.", became his first number one R&B album. Gaye's landmark album, 1971's "What's Going On" became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track. His 1973 single, "Let's Get It On", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date.
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It On": Original US vinyl release, T-54234F. A-side B-side Collectables 7-inch reissue single from the "Back To Back Hit Series", COL-563. A-side B-side Let's Get It On (song) "Let's Get It On" is a song and hit single by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released June 15, 1973, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. The song was recorded on March 22, 1973, at Hitsville West in Los Angeles, California. The song features romantic and sexual lyricism and funk instrumentation by The Funk Brothers. The title track of Gaye's landmark album "Let's Get It On" (1973), it was written by Marvin Gaye and
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Trouble Man (song) "Trouble Man" is a song composed and written by American recording artist Marvin Gaye released on the Motown subsidiary, Tamla, in November of 1972. The song was the title track and theme of the Soul Cinema Classic film of the same name. Relating the song to the travails of the movie's leading character, named "Mister T", and also relating to issues in his private life, Marvin called it one of the most honest recordings he ever made. Gaye played drums and piano on the record as well as performing all the vocals himself, in which he sings
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album track, "Get My Hands on Some Lovin'" while also singing three covers - the jazz standard, "Days of Wine and Roses", blues song "Mo Jo Hanna" and his cover of Ray Charles' R&B version of "You Are My Sunshine". Gaye was accompanied throughout the album by Martha and the Vandellas. During these early days and later into his career, Gaye had stage fright and struggled with live performances. Despite this, he performed to enthusiastic audiences, who cheered him on throughout his set. He recorded another live album in the 1960s, the shelved "Marvin Gaye at the Copa" and finally
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to be added to the National Recording Registry. "What's Going On" was ranked number 6 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", one of three Gaye albums to be included, succeeded by 1973's "Let's Get It On" (number 165) and 1978's "Here, My Dear" (number 462). The album is Gaye's highest-ranking entry on the list, as well as several other publications' lists. Released on May 21, 1971, "What's Going On" became Gaye's first album to reach the "Billboard" Top LPs top ten, peaking at number six, and staying on the chart for nearly
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received tepid promotion due to the song's sexually explicit content. Marvin's final duet project, "Diana & Marvin", with Diana Ross, garnered international success despite contrasting artistic styles. Much of the material was crafted especially for the duo by Ashford and Simpson. Responding to demand from fans and Motown, Gaye started his first tour in four years at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum on January 4, 1974. The performance received critical acclaim and resulted in the release of the live album, "Marvin Gaye Live!" and its single, a live version of "Distant Lover", an album track from "Let's Get It On". The
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After its release, Marvin asked to be let go from his contract. It was finally granted after CBS Records' urban division president Larkin Arnold bought Marvin out of his Motown contract, thus ending the singer's 21-year relationship with the company in 1982 (Gaye then eventually recorded his final album, "Midnight Love", in Belgium and Germany). Over the years, the album was forgotten until it was re-released by Motown on compact disc in 1994 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Marvin's death, including the song "Ego Tripping Out" as part of the track listing. On June 19, 2007, twenty-six years
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Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye Inner City Blues: the Music of Marvin Gaye (also known as "Inner City Blues: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye") is a tribute album to soul singer Marvin Gaye who died in 1984. It was released in 1995 on the Motown Records label. The album was not a success on the music charts and sales were low. Many critics panned the album, although, Allmusic stated "I Want You" was the album's standout tracks, and WBLS (New York) DJ Félix Hernández selected "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" as his choice in his yearly tribute to
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In Our Lifetime (Marvin Gaye song) "In Our Lifetime" is a funk song recorded by singer Marvin Gaye, issued on his final Motown album, 1981's "In Our Lifetime". The title track's rhythm admittedly was taken from Rick James while the song parlayed a different message of partying with Marvin predicting the world's end as he had believed from teachings he absorbed from his father that Armageddon was approaching and that he wondered if it would happen in his lifetime. He says the title track as a question mark. In fact, the original concept of the album was to have a
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Joe covered the song on his 2009 album, "Signature". Come Get to This "Come Get to This" is a song written and recorded by American recording artist Marvin Gaye. It was released as the second single off Gaye's landmark album, "Let's Get It On" following the success of the title track. Recording sessions for the song first occurred in 1970 when Gaye worked on the song in a demo format while he made "What's Going On". Gaye then shelved the recording for three years before revisiting it as he began assessing the track listing for "Let's Get It On". The
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United States as part of the chitlin' circuit. A filmed performance of Gaye at the Apollo Theater took place in June 1963. Later that October, Tamla issued the live album, "Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage". "Can I Get a Witness" became one of Gaye's early international hits. In 1964, Gaye recorded a successful duet album with singer Mary Wells titled "Together", which reached No. 42 on the pop album chart. The album's two-sided single, including "Once Upon a Time" and 'What's the Matter With You Baby", each reach the top 20. Gaye's next solo hit, "How Sweet It Is
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Come Get to This "Come Get to This" is a song written and recorded by American recording artist Marvin Gaye. It was released as the second single off Gaye's landmark album, "Let's Get It On" following the success of the title track. Recording sessions for the song first occurred in 1970 when Gaye worked on the song in a demo format while he made "What's Going On". Gaye then shelved the recording for three years before revisiting it as he began assessing the track listing for "Let's Get It On". The song was remixed and edited at Motown's Hollywood-based recording
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Eyes", "Joy and Pain", "Before I Let Go", "We Are One", "Back in Stride", "Can't Get Over You" and "The Morning After". The band has maintained a large and devoted following. Frankie Beverly started the band as Raw Soul in 1970. They recorded a couple of singles on the small Gregar label, but without any major hits. With a few personnel changes, a relocation from Philadelphia to the San Francisco Bay Area in California in 1971, and an introduction to Marvin Gaye, the band became an immediate success. Gaye took the band on the road with him as one of
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Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 is a taped performance of singer Marvin Gaye's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded on July 17, 1980. Gaye included this performance as part of a European tour. Gaye performs a majority of his hits from his recent disco-funk hits "Got to Give It Up" and "A Funky Space Reincarnation", to his duet hits with Tammi Terrell including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", in which Gaye re-interpolated the songs as a somber tribute to Terrell, who died over a decade
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had dedicated to her, Marvin has stated that this album was dedicated to Hunter, who is believed to have been in the studio when he recorded it. According to music critics, her presence may have increased the emotion in Ware's and Gaye's conception of "I Want You". Gaye and Ware recorded and mixed the album at Gaye's newly christened "Marvin's Room Studio", located on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and at Motown Recording Studios. The recording sessions took place throughout 1975 and 1976. Much like Gaye's previous studio effort "Let's Get It On", "I Want You" featured Gaye's contribution of
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of the Gaye residence in the wee wee hours. Perhaps that's your kick, but personally I find it a mite frustrating." White also criticized the album's sound, describing the songs as "all expressions of the same mood. Sensual, satisfied, and spaced out", and calling "I Want You" "simply the explorative aftermath of "Let's Get It On". The sweet nuthin's of a drowsy, sweat-streaked lover." Robert Christgau of "The Village Voice" wrote favorably of the album's sound quality. However, he criticized the lyrical content, as well as Ware's involvement in songwriting, stating "was it Ware who instructed Marvin to eliminate all
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the week after Gaye's version peaked at #22. It was featured on his 1971 album, "5th". Can I Get a Witness "Can I Get a Witness" is a song composed by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland and produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier as a non-album single for American recording vocalist Marvin Gaye, who issued the record on Motown's Tamla imprint in September 1963. Recorded at Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studios on July 17, 1963, the song's lyrical writer Eddie Holland discussed going over the song once with Gaye, who had complained to the producers about singing their
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well-known television series was on "The Odd Couple"'s theme music. Johnson was also employed by Motown, and played on hits by Marvin Gaye, the Supremes and others. Johnson also played on sessions for Nancy Sinatra, and can be heard on the 1963 album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook", recorded with the esteemed arranger Nelson Riddle. His sax is also heard on two of the other great Ella Fitzgerald songbooks - "The Harold Arlen Songbook" and "The Johnny Mercer Songbook". In 1964, Johnson was the featured performer on "Blue Martini" (Ava Records), a concept album by John Neel. It
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I Want You (Marvin Gaye song) "I Want You" is a song written by songwriters Leon Ware and Arthur "T-Boy" Ross and performed by singer Marvin Gaye. It was released as a single in 1976 on his fourteenth studio album of the same name on the Tamla label. The song introduced a change in musical styles for Gaye, who before then had been recording songs with a funk edge. Songs such as this gave him a disco audience thanks to Ware, who produced the song alongside Gaye. The song also stood to be one of Marvin's most popular singles during
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bar and Eli Fontaine, the saxophonist behind "Baby, I'm For Real", also participated in the recording. Jamerson, who couldn't sit properly on his seat after arriving to the session drunk, performed his bass riffs, written for him by the album's arranger David Van De Pitte, on the floor. Fontaine's open alto saxophone riff on the song was not originally intended. When Gaye heard the playback to what Fontaine thought was simply a demo, Gaye let him continue. When Fontaine said he was "just goofing around", Gaye replied, "well, you goof off exquisitely. Thank you." The laid-back sessions of the single
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and laid low following Rhonda's birth. She had also finished work on the movie, "Lady Sings the Blues". Gaye, in the meantime, was busy on other projects putting future recording sessions in limbo. Due to this, Motown decided to do what they had done with Gaye and Terrell - record them separately. Ross and Gaye ended up recording in different sessions with Terrana mixing the duo's vocals together. The album would feature the last Ashford & Simpson production for Motown, "Just Say, Just Say", though the duo would later reunite with Ross on her "The Boss" album. Gaye later said
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top 40 of the "Billboard" Hot 100, including "Let's Get It On", which became Gaye's second number-one US single, and the top-30 hit "Come Get to This", which peaked at number 23 on the chart. The album's third single, "You Sure Love to Ball", charted at number 50 on the Hot 100 and at number 13 on the Soul Singles chart. Along with the album's music and sexual content, "Let's Get It On"s commercial success and promotion helped establish Marvin Gaye as a sex icon, while helping further expand his artistic control during his tenure at Motown. This commercial success
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and Marvin III finally left Detroit and moved to Los Angeles permanently. In 1973, Gaye released the "Let's Get It On" album. Its title track became Gaye's second No. 1 single on the Hot 100. The album subsequently stayed on the charts for two years and sold over three million copies. The album was later hailed as "a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy." Other singles from the album included "Come Get to This", which recalled Gaye's early Motown soul sound of the previous decade, while the suggestive "You Sure Love to Ball" reached modest success but
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numbers even if they share them. A major recording artist typically sings "O Canada" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to tipoff. One of the more memorable performances was given by Marvin Gaye during the 1983 game; Gaye was accompanied by Gordon Banks, who played a tape from an all night session that used numerous elements of soul music and funk, and Banks still has that historic tape of the music to which Gaye sang his soulful version. Gameplay usually involves players attempting spectacular slam dunks and alley oops. Defensive effort is usually limited and the final score of the game
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label, as well as a Billboard chart hit. Following digital remastering, "Live at the London Palladium" was reissued on August 24, 1999, by Motown on compact disc. In October 1976, during a very dizzying, topsy-turvy and bizarre period in his life, Marvin Gaye had begun recuperating from personal issues. He had recently gone through a divorce with his first wife, and sister of Motown-CEO Berry Gordy, Anna Gordy, and married his second wife, Janis Hunter. Hunter had previously inspired many of Gaye's romantic-themed albums including 1973's "Let's Get It On" and his previous album, the erotic "I Want You". Gaye
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Trainor just asked me to sing on my song, absolutely! In one day, she knew the whole thing. We did it all in one take." "Marvin Gaye" is a reference to the soul singer with "the lyrics of the tune being an effort to spark romance and get that special someone in the mood, just as many Gaye slow jams have done for millions in the past." The song is also Trainor's first release without writing credits. The collaboration led to Puth's appearance as one of Trainor's dates in the music video for her single "Dear Future Husband". In Oceania,
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Time to Get It Together "Time to Get It Together" is a 1978 song recorded by Marvin Gaye and issued on Marvin's 1978 album, "Here, My Dear". Much like "Everybody Needs Love", "Anger" and "A Funky Space Reincarnation", among others, this song doesn't discuss the demise of Marvin's marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye. Instead the song is a biographical account of the singer's own personal demons as he battled drug abuse, paranoia and depression. The artist admits though he says he's trying to break his habits, he always find himself back in it. In the beginning of the song, Gaye
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"On To Victory". Baby Don't You Do It "Baby Don't You Do It" is a 1964 single by American singer Marvin Gaye. Released on the Tamla label, this song discusses a man who is at a standstill with his girlfriend, who he feels is neglecting his love stating "Don't break my heart/...I've tried to do my best". Featured on the Holland–Dozier–Holland-written and produced track, for the first time on a Marvin Gaye record, were Motown's top session girl group, the Andantes. The song was originally written and intended for the Supremes, but eventually reassigned to Marvin Gaye to record. In
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Santana and formed the band Azteca. Nicole Richie is Sheila E.'s biological niece, the daughter of Sheila's musician brother, Peter Michael Escovedo. Sheila made her recording debut with jazz bassist Alphonso Johnson on "Yesterday's Dream" in 1976. By her early 20s, she had already played with George Duke, Lionel Richie, Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, and Diana Ross. In 1977, she joined The George Duke Band. She appeared on several of Duke's albums including: "Don't Let Go" (1978)", "Follow the Rainbow" (1979), "Master of the Game" (1979), "A Brazilian Love Affair" (1980). In 1983, she joined Marvin Gaye's final tour "Midnight
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Keep Gettin' It On "Keep Gettin' It On", or "Let's Get It On, Pt. 2", was a sequel of the title track on Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, "Let's Get It On". The song was seen as a continuation of the title track from the album. It was the final composition and production between Gaye and Townsend on the first half of the album. The song featured some political overtones with Gaye lamenting, "won't you rather make love, sugar, as opposed to war?" The basis of this song was recorded as a challenge by Townsend to Gaye. During his vocal sessions,
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Baby Don't You Do It "Baby Don't You Do It" is a 1964 single by American singer Marvin Gaye. Released on the Tamla label, this song discusses a man who is at a standstill with his girlfriend, who he feels is neglecting his love stating "Don't break my heart/...I've tried to do my best". Featured on the Holland–Dozier–Holland-written and produced track, for the first time on a Marvin Gaye record, were Motown's top session girl group, the Andantes. The song was originally written and intended for the Supremes, but eventually reassigned to Marvin Gaye to record. In October 1964 Gaye's
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in the ground"". Gaye used the song's intro as the opening number for his late 1970s/early 1980s concerts, including his performance at the 1980 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Time to Get It Together "Time to Get It Together" is a 1978 song recorded by Marvin Gaye and issued on Marvin's 1978 album, "Here, My Dear". Much like "Everybody Needs Love", "Anger" and "A Funky Space Reincarnation", among others, this song doesn't discuss the demise of Marvin's marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye. Instead the song is a biographical account of the singer's own personal demons as he battled drug abuse,
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song while in California where Gordy had relocated. Gordy took a profound dislike to the song, calling it "the worst thing I ever heard in my life". Gaye, who had also begun recording some songs that would later be featured on his later album, "Let's Get It On", responded by going on strike from recording anything else for the label unless Gordy relented. Motown executive Harry Balk later recalled that he had tried to get Gordy to release the song to which Gordy replied to Balk, "that Dizzy Gillespie stuff in the middle, that scatting, it's old." Most of Motown's
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after also recording a duets album - "Together" - with Gaye). Weston's replacement as Gaye's duet partner was Tammi Terrell, who recorded several successful hit singles with Gaye during the late 1960s. Take Two (Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston album) Take Two is a duet album by Motown label mates Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston, released August 25, 1966 on the Motown's Tamla label. The album was titled after its most successful selection, the Top 5 R&B/Top 20 Pop hit "It Takes Two", which was to this point Gaye's most successful duet with another singer. The album also featured the
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the Moonglows. Fuqua and Gaye met up with several members of the Gordy family, and before long both of them were dating the female Gordy members Gwen and Anna respectively. Around that fall, Marvin was introduced to Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy after Gaye walked in during a party at the local Hitsville studios and played around on the piano. Gordy later signed Gaye first as a session drummer for Anna Records and eventually signed him into Motown's Tamla label as an artist. After several arguments over the direction of the album - the headstrong Marvin wanted to record a
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his later Motown period followed by his sabbatical following the release of 1973's "Let's Get It On". The song eventually reached number fifteen on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart. It also became a disco hit, reaching number ten on the Disco Singles Chart alongside "After the Dance". Originally conceived by Motown songwriter Leon Ware and his songwriting partner "T-Boy" Ross, it was originally intended to be included in Ware's "Musical Massage" album. When Ware, who was also signed to the label as a solo artist, presented the rough draught of his
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and claims that if he was to die tonight, he wouldn't die sad because of his knowledge of his love crush. The song was placed third on the set list of "Let's Get It On", quickly after the song "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)" ends. The song opens with orchestral string arrangements before Gaye begins singing. Like most of his songs on the album, Gaye sings two leads in the song. In an alternate version later released on the deluxe edition issue of "Let's Get It On", one of the leads sings the song without help from the other
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Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American R&B/soul singer and Motown legend Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label in 1976. The hits collection, with the exception of Gaye's signature 1960s hits "Can I Get a Witness", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", was a review of Gaye's signature 1970s hits including the socially conscious anthems "What's Going On" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", erotically-focused material like "Let's Get It On", "I Want You" and "After the Dance", his bluesy and
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Can I Get a Witness "Can I Get a Witness" is a song composed by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland and produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier as a non-album single for American recording vocalist Marvin Gaye, who issued the record on Motown's Tamla imprint in September 1963. Recorded at Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studios on July 17, 1963, the song's lyrical writer Eddie Holland discussed going over the song once with Gaye, who had complained to the producers about singing their songs above his vocal range, something he would later complain about during recording sessions for his
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I Want to Come Home for Christmas "I Want to Come Home for Christmas" is a holiday song recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1972. The song was co-written by Gaye and Forest Hairston and was released on a posthumous Marvin compilation titled, "The Marvin Gaye Collection" 18 years later. The idea of the song came to Forest Hairston after seeing pictures of people tying yellow ribbons around trees for Vietnam War troops who were forced to be prisoners of war or P.O.W. Hairston hadn't finished writing the song when Marvin Gaye, who he had become friends with, happened to stop
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charged with first-degree murder, Gay Sr.'s charges dropped to voluntary manslaughter following a diagnosis of a brain tumor. Marvin Gay Sr. was later sentenced to a suspended six-year sentence and probation. He died at a nursing home in 1998. Gaye married Berry Gordy's sister, Anna Gordy, in June 1963. The couple separated in 1973, and Anna filed for divorce in November 1975. The couple was officially divorced in 1977. Gaye later married Janis Hunter in October 1977. The couple separated in 1979, and were officially divorced in February 1981. Gaye was the father of three children, Marvin III (adopted with
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Foote Street NE in Deanwood, Washington, D.C., was renamed Marvin Gaye Way. Since Gaye's death, fans of the singer have stood around Gaye's Walk of Fame star to pay tribute and sing songs of Gaye's in his honor during the week of April 1 through April 5 of each year. Several other fans have gathered around Gaye's final house in vigils. Death of Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye was an American musician who gained worldwide fame for his work with Motown Records. He was fatally shot by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., on April 1, 1984, at their house in the
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Gaye was given a burial plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery and was later cremated and his ashes spread around the Pacific Ocean. Marvin Gaye had an acrimonious relationship with his father, Marvin Gay Sr., since his childhood. Marvin Sr. was a Christian minister who was a strict disciplinarian and often physically punished his children. He was also a crossdresser, which was commonly known in the family's Washington, D.C. neighborhood and made the younger Marvin a target of bullying. It was because of this, added with rumors of Marvin's own homosexuality, that Marvin added an "e" to his last name when
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released along with his eponymous solo effort "M.P.G.", on Gaye's thirtieth birthday. Marvin Gaye and His Girls Marvin Gaye and His Girls is a 1969 compilation album of duets recorded by Marvin Gaye and various female singers on the Tamla label. Among the ladies Gaye sung with were Mary Wells (the hits "Once Upon a Time" and "What's the Matter With You Baby"), Kim Weston ("What Good Am I Without You?" and "It Takes Two") and Tammi Terrell ("Your Precious Love" and "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By"). It was the original album release of "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy
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Marvin Gaye and His Girls Marvin Gaye and His Girls is a 1969 compilation album of duets recorded by Marvin Gaye and various female singers on the Tamla label. Among the ladies Gaye sung with were Mary Wells (the hits "Once Upon a Time" and "What's the Matter With You Baby"), Kim Weston ("What Good Am I Without You?" and "It Takes Two") and Tammi Terrell ("Your Precious Love" and "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By"). It was the original album release of "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By," which later appeared on "Easy". The album was simultaneously
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Anthology (Marvin Gaye album) Anthology: The Best of Marvin Gaye is a double CD chronology of American singer Marvin Gaye's career throughout his twenty-year tenure with Motown Records from his first big hit, 1962's "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", to his final Motown R&B charter, "Heavy Love Affair" in 1981. The anthology also covered a set of duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Tammi Terrell, and Diana Ross, as well as unreleased recordings from the 1960s and 1970s. Gaye's "Anthology" set was actually released a total of three times in different track listings. The 1974 original, which charted, featured singles
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Easy (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album) Easy is an album recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and released by Motown Records on September 16, 1969 under the Tamla Records label. One song on the album, "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By", was a hit single and remains popular to this day. Terrell had been ill, suffering from complications caused by a brain tumor, since the fall of 1967. Marvin Gaye later claimed that as a result, most of the female vocals on this album were performed by Valerie Simpson, who served as co-songwriter and co-producer for the
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has been included in a significant number of "best album" lists by critics and publications. It was ranked number 58 on "The Times"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 1993 publication of the 100 Best Albums of All Time. "Blender" magazine ranked the album number 15 on its list of the 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time. In 2003, it was ranked number 165 on "Rolling Stone"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time publication, his second highest entry on the list, as well as one of three Marvin Gaye albums to be included; "What's Going On" (number 6) and "Here, My Dear" (number 462). "Let's
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recording in one take and after it was recorded on tape, returned to Hairston's apartment and slipped the tape in Hairston's recorder. When Hairston heard it, he immediately hugged Gaye complimenting his talents, to which Gaye laughed. Gaye struggled to get the song released as a single for Vietnam troops with Motown. Eighteen years after its recording and six years after Gaye's untimely death, the song was reissued on "The Marvin Gaye Collection". It also appeared as a bonus track on a later reissue of the compilation "A Motown Christmas". Hairston would recall he received a royalty check from the
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standards with a compromise that he'd record a couple of songs with an R&B feel. Recording his vocals in a relaxed tone, Gaye also played drums and piano on the album while Berry Gordy oversaw much of the album's production. Anna Gordy was another collaborator, co-writing the R&B song "Never Let You Go (Sha-Lu-Bop)" for her boyfriend. The album was recorded over two weeks and was released on June 8, 1961. Before the release of his first single, the Berry Gordy-composed ballad "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide", Gaye added an extra 'e' to his last name, to look "more
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Death of Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye was an American musician who gained worldwide fame for his work with Motown Records. He was fatally shot by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., on April 1, 1984, at their house in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, California. Gaye was shot twice following an altercation with his father after he intervened in an argument between his parents. The wounds were fatal and he was pronounced dead on arrival at the California Hospital Medical Center. Gaye's death inspired several musical tributes over the years including recollections of the incidents leading to his death.
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Feel All My Love Inside "Feel All My Love Inside" is an album track issued by Marvin Gaye on his 1976 album, "I Want You". The song was co-written by Gaye and collaborators Leon Ware and Arthur "T-Boy" Ross. The erotic tune, much like "Come Live with Me Angel" and "Since I Had You", featured sexual moans by an unidentified female voice while Gaye sings seductively through. The song's personal nature related to Marvin's relationship with girlfriend Janis Hunter, then nineteen at the time of recording of the song. Much of the album was mostly dedicated to Hunter unlike his
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Personal life of Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye was an American music artist and singer-songwriter who won acclaim for a series of recordings with Motown Records. Gaye's personal life, mainly documented in the biography, "", included religious faith, child abuse by his father, personal relationships with his two wives, friends and girlfriends, bouts with depression and drug abuse. Marvin Gaye and his three siblings were brought up in a strict religious Pentecostal sect known as the House of God by their minister father Marvin Gay, Sr. Marvin began singing church solos at the age of four. The House of God took
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It Takes Two (Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston song) "It Takes Two" is a hit single recorded in late 1965 by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston for Motown's Tamla label. Produced by Weston's then-husband, longtime Gaye collaborator William "Mickey" Stevenson, and co-written by Stevenson and Sylvia Moy, "It Takes Two" centered on a romantic lyric that depicted many things in life (dreams, love, wishes, etc.) being better with two people instead of one. The single became Gaye's most successful duet single to date, later outperformed by Gaye's duets with Tammi Terrell. Gaye and Weston's duet peaked at #14 on the
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'80s synths and melodies that jab and slide" on the album's songs. "Rolling Stone"s Ernest Hardy finds Hunt's vocal style similar to those of Prince, Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, and comments that the album's music evokes influences such as the Beatles, Muddy Waters, and Sly Stone. Neil Drumming of "Entertainment Weekly" perceives a lack of melisma in Hunt's singing, writing that he sings "clearly and crisply and sav[es] the crests and falls for the swirling synths, slick guitars, and percolating bass lines." The album's subject matter is droll, stark, and confessional, and focuses on the pains of love, romance,
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song "If I Should Die" and by Berthex on the song "If I Should Die Tonight". The song's melody and riff was interpolated for R&B singers Avant and Keke Wyatt's 2013 R&B hit, "You & I". It was also sampled on John Legend's song, "Who Do We Think We Are" ft. Rick Ross. If I Should Die Tonight "If I Should Die Tonight" is a song written by songwriter Ed Townsend and American recording artist Marvin Gaye. Gaye recorded the track, a soul ballad, for his "Let's Get It On" album. It was issued as the third track on the
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by Justin Prime and Sidney Samson (episode 2), "Take a Ride" by Rattle Box (episode 4), "Re-Creation" by Strikez (episode 5), "With Me" by Underglow (episode 6), "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Art Landry and His Orchestra (episode 8), "Get Your Hands Up" by Uforik (episode 9), "Let Go for Tonight" by Foxes (episode 10), and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" by Marvin Gaye (episode 12). The second season features music by Underglow ("Save the Day", episode 1), With Lions ("Jitterbug", episode 2), Savoy ("Pump it Up", episode 3) and Motabeatz ("Watch Your Back",
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bird flies away in hopes he can find inspiration. Sparrow (song) "Another song with the same name, written by Graham Lyle and Benny Gallagher, was recorded by McGuinness Flint and Mary Hopkin in the early 1970s." "Sparrow" is a 1978 jazz song recorded by singer Marvin Gaye issued on the singer's 1978 album, "Here, My Dear" album. The lyrics basically have a poetic and religious tone to them as Marvin calls a sparrow "to sing (his) beautiful song" to let him make sure that things are all right even when they aren't. In the song's climactic bridge, Gaye coos to
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Sparrow (song) "Another song with the same name, written by Graham Lyle and Benny Gallagher, was recorded by McGuinness Flint and Mary Hopkin in the early 1970s." "Sparrow" is a 1978 jazz song recorded by singer Marvin Gaye issued on the singer's 1978 album, "Here, My Dear" album. The lyrics basically have a poetic and religious tone to them as Marvin calls a sparrow "to sing (his) beautiful song" to let him make sure that things are all right even when they aren't. In the song's climactic bridge, Gaye coos to the bird to sing to him personally before the
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opposed to R&B albums that traditionally included filler tracks to complete the album. This style of music would influence recordings by artists such as Stevie Wonder and Barry White making the concept album format a part of 1970s R&B music. Concept albums are usually based on either one theme or a series of themes in connection to the original thesis of the album's concept. "Let's Get It On" repeated the suite-form arrangement of "What's Going On", as would Gaye's later albums such as "I Want You", "Here, My Dear" and "In Our Lifetime". Although Marvin Gaye was not actually doing
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2010, "What's Going On" was ranked #4 on the "Rolling Stone" list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", making it the highest Marvin Gaye song on the list. In 2016, it was voted #2 in "Detroit's 100 Greatest Songs", a project based on voting by music experts and the public, conducted by the "Detroit Free Press". In 1999, music writers Paul Gambaccini and Kevin Howlett listed the song #74 on BBC Radio 2's Songs of the Century. In 2003, "Q" magazine placed the song 64th out of its 1001 Best Songs Ever. In 2004, the Detroit publication "Metro
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"Rolling Stone" said the song "puts a Kangol hat and Adidas shoes on Marvin Gaye." "Tell Me What" is said to accurately approximate the Tamla Motown sound, albeit with a "modern touch" courtesy of its synthesiser. The doo-wop harmonies in the song are said to evoke the music of the 1950s. "Don't Look Back" was influenced by 1960s jangle pop pioneers The Byrds, "while a touch of mid-Sixties Beatles-styled riffing adds further glamor." "Don't Let It Get You Down" is a funk and acid house song which contains a trumpet solo; "Rolling Stone" believed that the combination of acid house
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the mother of actress Bianca Lawson by Lawson. Her grandchildren include Marvin Gaye IV (b. 1995) and Dylan Gaye (b. 2000). Denise Gordy Denise Georgette Gordy (born November 11, 1949) is an American former film and television actress. Born Denise Georgette Gordy in Detroit, Michigan, Gordy is the daughter of George and Rosemary Gordy and sister of Patrice and George Gordy, Jr., among others. Motown founder Berry Gordy is her uncle, while her aunt is Anna Gordy Gaye. Gordy has appeared in numerous television and theatrical features, beginning in 1972 with "Lady Sings the Blues" as a dancer in the
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Vulnerable (Marvin Gaye album) Vulnerable is the third posthumous album by Marvin Gaye. Recorded in sessions throughout 1977, the album was a decade in the making, first being worked on in 1968 during sessions in New York with Bobby Scott. Reworked by Gaye a decade later, the album was originally going to be released in 1979 under the title, "The Ballads", but was shelved. Two decades later, Motown released it under the title "Vulnerable", including seven songs from the sessions and three alternate cuts. In 1968, Marvin Gaye went to New York to record a series of ballads with arranger
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social justice work outside of his music, he became a public figure for social change and inspired/educated many people through his work. Marvin Gaye has been called "The number-one purveyor of soul music". In his book "Mercy Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye", Michael Eric Dyson described Gaye as someone "...who transcended the boundaries of rhythm and blues as no other performer had done before." Following his death, "The New York Times" described Gaye as someone who "blended the soul music of the urban scene with the beat of the old-time gospel singer and became an
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it was placed at number 80 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, with the comment that Whitfield had produced the song with a number of artists using different arrangements, and that on the Marvin Gaye recording he had a "golden idea" when he set the song "in a slower, more mysterious tempo". In a new "Rolling Stone" list published in 2011, the single was placed slightly lower at number 81. On the commemorative fiftieth anniversary of the "Billboard" Hot 100 issue of "Billboard" magazine in June 2008, the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as
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You (Marvin Gaye song) "You" is a 1967 single released by American singer Marvin Gaye on the Tamla label. Released as the first single from Gaye's "In the Groove" album, it was written by Ivy Jo Hunter, Jack Goga and Jeffrey Bowen and produced by Hunter. The song talked of a man wanting to keep a rendezvous secret with one woman due to their differing social statuses, Marvin's narrator being working class, while the woman is upper class. Recorded after Gaye recorded his "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" single, it showcased a new rougher Gaye vocal than usual signaling
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on his solo material, while Claudette, who had essentially retired from the Miracles' live performances in 1964, permanently left the Miracles when her husband Smokey did, retiring from recording with them as well. In 1973, the Miracles, with Griffin, re-emerged with the critically acclaimed album, "Renaissance" – their first without Smokey Robinson on lead vocals, which included the Marvin Gaye composition, "I Love You Secretly", "What Is a Heart Good For" (the intended first single), and the charting single,"Don't Let It End (Til You Let It Begin)". The following year, in 1974, after releasing the much-covered single "Give Me Just
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Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" is a duet released in 1969 on the Tamla label by renowned singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The first release off the duo's third album, "Easy", it has been hugely debated whether or not an ailing Terrell, who was dying from a brain tumor, was on the track or if the song's co-writer, Valerie Simpson, subbed for Terrell. In his biography, "Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye", Marvin said Tammi was too ill to record, but Motown pushed for another Marvin/Tammi record. Marvin refused,
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