I Want You, an Album by Marv Gaye. Released 16 March 1976 on Tamla (talog no. T6-342S1; Vyl LP). Genr: Smooth Soul. Rated #18 the bt albums of 1976, and #1108 of all time album.. Featured peformers: Marv Gaye (vols, dms, executive producer, keyboards), Dennis Coffey (guar), Jay Graydon (guar), Ray Parker Jr. (guar), Wah Wah Watson (guar), David T. Walker (guar), John Barn (fenr rhos electric piano, piano), Sonny Burke (fenr rhos electric piano, piano), Jerry Peters (fenr rhos electric piano, piano), Ron Brown (bass), Henry Davis (bass), Wilton Felr (bass), Chuck Raey (bass), Jam Gadson (dms), Eddie Brown (bongos, ngas, percsn), Bobbye Hall (bongos, ngas, percsn), John Arnold (percsn), Gary Coleman (percsn), Leon Ware (producer), Coleridge-Taylor Perkson (horn arrangements, strg arrangements), Berry Gordy (executive producer), Art Stewart (engeer, mixer), Fred Ross (engeer), Frank Mulvey (art directn), Ernie Barn (illtratn).
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Marv Gaye.
I Want You, while a Top Ten smash for Marv Gaye 1976, is not as generally as well-known as s precsors for several reasons. Third, Gaye hadn't rerd nearly three years and crics were onto somethg else -- exactly what, retrospect is anybody's gus. From the amazg Ernie Barn ver patg "Back to Sugar Shack" to the Coleridge-Taylor Perkson strg and horn arrangements to Leon Ware's exotic productn that relied on keyboards as well as dms and bass as rhythm stments, I Want You was a giant leap for Gaye.
But the most astonishg thgs about I Want You are s timacy ( was dited to and rerd ont of Gaye's future send wife, Jan), silky elegance, and seamls textur.
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Gaye worked wh producer Leon Ware, who wrote all of the origal songs on the album and worked wh Gaye to revise them, th lendg Gaye a -wrg cred. The tle track is a monster two-step groover wh hand percsn playg unterpot to the strgs and horns layered agast a spare electric guar solo, all before Gaye begs to sg on top of the funky backbeat.
Art Stewart's engeerg rounds off all the edg and mak Gaye's already sweet croong stment to the te gra the voice of sctive need. "Feel All My Love Insi" and "I Want to Be Where You Are" are anthems to sensualy wh strgs creepg up unr Gaye's voice as the guars move through a seri of chunky chang and dms punctuate his every syllable.
I Want You is as necsary as anythg Gaye ever rerd. As thor Michael Eric Dyson wrote his book, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Lov, and Demons of Marv Gaye:.