‎I Want You by Marv Gaye on Apple Mic

Contents:

• ‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC
• MARV GAYE’S ‘I WANT YOU’ GETS THE M+M MIX TREATMENT

‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC

“I Want You” is the lead sgle off of the 1976 album of the same name that would go on to bee one of Marv Gaye’s most succsful rerds. As thor Michael Eric Dyson wrote his book, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Lov, and Demons of Marv Gaye:.

MARV GAYE’S ‘I WANT YOU’ GETS THE M+M MIX TREATMENT

Gaye’s obssn wh the woman her late teens is nearly palpable the sensual textur that are the album’s ral and lyril signature. Facebook (MarvGaye).

Marv Gaye. Marv Pentz Gay, Jr. After pretty much releasg an album a year sce 1961, Marv Gaye slowed down the mid-70s.

Followg his stylistic rebirth at the start of the , the once prolific Gaye creasgly began to agonize over new material. After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged 1976 wh his 14th solo album, releasg at a time when the clubs were eher mblg to the sounds of punk or shakg unr the weight of bodi on the dis dancefloor. Not that Gaye red.

As s ver art, a 1971 patg by Ernie Barn, entled Sugar Shack, ma abundantly clear, there was no room for manver between Gaye’s erotic fantasi and the barely supprsed mands of his urg. Gaye had stggled to rerd a follow-up to Let’s Get It On, but then he met Leon Ware, songwrer for Michael Jackson, The Miracl, and Mnie Riperton, among many others, and a man who was then workg on his own sexually-charged excursns. Fdg that Ware’s visn was the perfect channel for his own obssn wh Janis Hunter – spiratn for “Let’s Get It On” and, subsequently, the woman wh whom Gaye embarked on a long-term affair – the pair worked on the songs together, Gaye pourg his most tense sir to every groove.

Dmmer Jam Gadson is as laidback and the pocket as ever, workg up effortls groov for percsn duo Bobbye Hall Porter and Eddie “Bongo” Brown to fl and out of; sumptuo strgs take proceedgs om the sweat shack to the dis and back aga, unrsrg Gaye’s sensual flights of fancy. It’s all so perfect that Gaye himself steps asi on several ocsns, allowg the band to riff on an “After The Dance” stmental and stoke the flam wh reprisals of the “I Want You” theme. 4 the US but baffled many: this wasn’t a llectn of songs, was a symphony, which, like the very sir that drove Gaye forward, had ebbs and flows, light and sha.

Yet s mix of quiet-storm soul, terstellar dis, and Gaye’s tritely multi-tracked, doo-wop-bted vols, laid the blueprt for the R&B and neo-soul stars of the 90s and 00s, among them D’Angelo, whose update on I Want You rulted the lennial masterpiece Voodoo. Buy or stream Marv Gaye’s I Want You. Updatg his highly percsive but strg-lan groove for the dis set, Gaye clearly vised 1976’s I Want You as a makeout album.

And the Ao-Caribbean ngas of “I Want You” and bossa nova lilt of “Sce I Had You” support a mix of rhythm and bety that ref to box self —punctuated by Gaye’s own murmurg, the sound flows like a sweet, sctive stream. Marv’s Gaye’s soul-fed “I Want You, ” a celebratn of his love for his soon-to-be-send wife, Janis Hunter, is now available a full remix treatment om John Moral, one of the godfathers of the remix. Jan Gaye says: “‘I Want You’ is a timels phrase spoken or sung every language.

“’I Want You” has always been one my favore Marv Gaye songs, so when I was able to listen to all his isolated vol tracks, I realized there was so much more to – and I wanted to give listeners a multi-dimensnal experience. Listen to the bt of Marv Gaye on Apple Mic and Spotify. Ware origally tend to rerd himself, but after Motown CEO Berry Gordy heard a rough versn of , he nvced Ware to give the song to Marv Gaye rerd the song 1975, the sger was spired by his relatnship wh his neteen-year-old girliend Janis Hunter.