‎Greatt Hs by Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell on Apple Mic

Contents:

• MOTOWN’S TRAGIC OMEN: TAMMI TERRELL COLLAPS INTO MARV GAYE’S ARMS
• TAMMI TERRELL: THE TRAGIC LIFE STORY OF A MOTOWN SGER AND HOW MARV GAYE NEVER GOT OVER HER ATH
• MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL
• THE BETY AND TRAGEDY OF MARV GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL
• MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL
• A'T NO MOUNTA HIGH ENOUGH (ORIGALLY PERFORMED BY MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL) [PIANO KARAOKE VERSN] - SGLE

MOTOWN’S TRAGIC OMEN: TAMMI TERRELL COLLAPS INTO MARV GAYE’S ARMS

When Tammi fell on stage and llapsed to Marv Gaye’s arms on October 14, 1967, foretold of tragedy. Marv Gaye/Tammi Terrell - Photo: Courty of Echo/Redferns. It happened when Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell were on tour Ameri celebratg the succs of their now-classic rerdg of Ashford & Simpson’s “A’t No Mounta High Enough.

” Gaye was climbg that chart at the same time wh his next solo h, “Your Changg Love.

Gaye and Terrell’s show at Hampn-Sydney College Virgia nfirmed all was far om well wh Tammi’s health. Before the end of the year, Gaye and Terrell were the pop and soul charts aga, wh “Your Prec Love, ” which had been rerd back March. Gaye, many ways, never revered, whdrawg om live performance and adoptg the trospectn that rmed his brilliant, reer-changg 1971 album What’s Gog On.

TAMMI TERRELL: THE TRAGIC LIFE STORY OF A MOTOWN SGER AND HOW MARV GAYE NEVER GOT OVER HER ATH

Buy or stream some of Tammi Terrell’s bt work wh Marv Gaye on the Uned album.

Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang together on many hs. Tammi Terrell was one of the most popular sgers of Motown's early h factory the 1960s, particularly wh her duet partner and close iend Marv Gaye. Alongsi Gaye, Terrell sred several big hs, cludg 'A't No Mounta High Enough' 'A't Nothg Like the Real Thg' and 'You're All I Need to Get By'.

A't No Mounta High Enough (extra HQ) - Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell. Among her biggt hs clud:- I Cried- A't No Mounta High Enough (wh Marv Gaye)- Your Prec Love (wh Marv Gaye)- If I Could Build My Whole World Around You (wh Marv Gaye)- If This World Were Me (wh Marv Gaye)- A't Nothg Like the Real Thg (wh Marv Gaye)- You're All I Need to Get By (wh Marv Gaye)- Keep On Lov' Me Honey (wh Marv Gaye)- Good Lov' A't Easy to Come By (wh Marv Gaye)- Come On and See Me. You're All I Need To Get By - Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL

When Tammi Terrell had bee a star, she ntued to suffer om migra and headach she had sce October 14, 1967, while performg 'Your Prec Love' wh Marv Gaye at Hampn–Sydney College, Virgia, she llapsed to Gaye's arms onstage.

Dpe her optimism, her tumour worsened, and need more 1969, Terrell had retired om live performanc on orrs by doctors and was too ill to rerd new was claimed that Valerie Simpson had to step for Terrell for her third album wh Gaye, Easy.

Gaye later said this was "another moneymakg scheme on BG's [Berry Gordy's] part". However, Simpson claimed that the ailg Terrell was brought to the stud when she was strong enough to rerd over Simpson's gui 1969, Terrell ma her fal public appearance at the Apollo Theater, where Marv Gaye was performg.

THE BETY AND TRAGEDY OF MARV GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL

When Gaye spotted Terrell, he shed to her si and the duo began sgg 'You're All I Need to Get By', and they were given a standg ovatn. Her funeral was held at the Jan Methodist Church the funeral, Gaye livered a fal logy while 'You're All I Need to Get By' was playg.

Acrdg to Terrell's fiancé Dr Ernt 'Ernie' Garrett, her mother angrily banned everyone at Motown om her funeral, except for Gaye, whom she felt was Terrell's clost iend.

Marv Gaye never got over her ath. Marv Gaye. Marv Gaye was known to have never fully got over Terrell's ath, acrdg to several has been stated that Terrell's ath saw Gaye go to a prsn and suffered om dg 's classic album What's Gog On was also part a reactn to Terrell's ath.

MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL

Many of may have heard about the tight kn sister-brother bond that Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell shared. What many of may not have ‘heard through the grapeve’ as of yet, is the extremely touchg thg that Marv did for Tammi when she was the fal stag of bra ncer and attendg his Gaye and Tammi TerrellMarv Gave Tammi One Last Opportuny To Do What She LovedIt’s been reported by some of Terrell’s loved on, that at the end of 1969, jt before Tammi’s passg 1970, she ma her last public appearance wh the help for her iend, Marv Gaye. Tammi rarely went out public at that time due to her failg health, but on that day when Gaye was performg at the Apollo Theater, she felt well enough to there, Marv spotted Tammi the crowd om the stage and quickly walked off stage to sg wh her.

Marv Gaye’s impromptu performance allowed Tammi to perform live one last time and she loved . Sadly, months later Tammi took her fal breathe on May 16, 1970 at the young age of Gaye Went Into Years-Long Deep Deprsn After Terrell PassedTerrell’s ath took a major toll on Marv Gaye and drove him to a ep prsn. I uldn’t perform, ” Gaye told a iend.

” Gaye reportedly felt like the succs wasn’t served whout Tammi beg here to celebrate what she helped build their duets Eulogiz Tammi, The Rt Of Motown Reportedly Banned From FuneralMarv Gaye livered the logy at Tammi’s funeral and although he was very overwhelmed wh grief and his voice repeatedly cracked throughout, he managed to betifully logize the woman he viewed as a ‘sister, ’ as their song, “You’re All I Need To Get By” played softly the background. Ernt Garrett, stated Tammi’s mother banned everyone om Motown om the funeral EXCEPT Marv Gaye, bee she felt that he was her only te iend there.

A'T NO MOUNTA HIGH ENOUGH (ORIGALLY PERFORMED BY MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL) [PIANO KARAOKE VERSN] - SGLE

But Marv Gaye also allegedly took issue wh Motown around that same time as well.

Contue to rt well Tammi Terrell and Marv Gaye.

Marv Gaye / Tammi Terrell.

Most listeners will be satisfied enough wh a bt-of pilatn to ver the work that Gaye and Terrell did together. That clus four songs om 1965-1966 sgl, cludg the non-LP B-si "Baby Don'tcha Worry, " all of which were also released as duets wh add Gaye vols; sounds like they're tryg to make her a mi-Mary Wells on "Hold Me Oh My Darlg. " There are also ne prevly unreleased Terrell solo tracks (though all of the songs were also featured, wh Gaye on duet vols, on the Gaye-Terrell LPs).

Aid by some excellent songs and productns by Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell set a high bar for duets that will be hard to surpass. Tammi Terrell and Marv Gaye meld their melod performative perfectn for ‘A’t No Mounta High Enough’ like a pair of songbirds liverg a twterg Sunday service.

While performg at Hampn-Sydney College Virgia, the pair got off to a flyer wh their ual sctillatg songs before Terrell sadly llapsed to Gaye’s arms.

Not long after her 22nd birthday, the Philalphia soul sensatn who was shootg up the charts wh Gaye and set to be Motown’s answer to At’s Sonny & Cher was diagnosed wh a bra tumour. Th, is no surprise that spe the hardship that had befallen her, she was back performg once more by the end of 1967, teamg up wh Gaye aga for their classic sgle ‘Your Prec Love’. This me as a cshg blow to both Gaye and Terrell herself.

Later that year, she would make one fal appearance when Gaye spotted her the dience at the Apollo Theater. At her logy, Gaye livered one fal performance of ‘You’re All I Need to Get By’. ” Sadly, the loss would have a profound effect on Gaye who creasgly turned to dgs and alhol as a cx.

Wh What’s Gog On, Gaye do what a lot of great art do: divulg hard tths and mak them bearable, illumatg, wh bety, that misery do not have to be tackled morbidly and that spair and liverance exist.

Dpe havg a short reer together due to personal tragedy, the partnership of Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell created inic soul mic hs such as "A't No Mounta High Enough" and "You're All I Need To Get By" that rema eply popular and have spired many artists.

In 1967, she was selected to replace Kim Wton as Marv Gaye's rerdg partner, wh Gaye beg one of Motown's biggt sger-songwrers and beg hungry to try more. This teamg produced Gaye's most succsful duets, and the pair issued a stream of h sgl between 1967 and 1969.

Tracks such as "A't No Mounta High Enough" and "You're All I Need To Get By" epomized their style, as Gaye and Terrell wove around each other's voic, creatg an ra of romance and eroticism that led to persistent (yet false) mors that they were a secret such close iends and strong admirers of each other's talents, the partnership's non-sgl and b-si releas have attracted cril praise as well, wh many mentg that both of them sg like passnate actors on a stage totally to their rol. Most of the Gaye/Terrell duets were crafted by two songwrg/productn teams: Ashford & Simpson and Harvey Fuqua & Johnny Bristol.

Yet all would e to a sudn end on tour wh Gaye Virgia durg the summer of 1967, Terrell fated onstage.