How a Stud Gut Inspired Marv Gaye to 'Get It On'

Contents:

• THE SPIR, THE FLH AND MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE LET'S GET IT ON SOUND EFFECT (FREE DOWNLOAD) (1) - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD
• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’ SGLE: MARV GAYE’S SENSUAL SOUL GROOVE
• A CLASSIC REVISED: “LET’S GET IT ON” BY MARV GAYE
• HOW A STUD GUT INSPIRED MARV GAYE TO ‘GET IT ON’COREY IRWCOREY IRWUPDATED: JUNE 22, 2020MOTOWNSHARETWEETIN JUNE 1973, MARV GAYE CEMENTED HIS STAT AS ONE OF MIC'S SEXUAL INS WH HIS H SGLE "LET'S GET IT ON."THE YEARS LEADG UP TO THE SGLE’S RELEASE WERE TURBULENT FOR GAYE. AFTER THE MASSIVE SUCCS OF HIS 1971 LP WHAT’S GOG ON, THE SGER SRED A NEW NTRACT, PROMISG HIM MORE MONEY AND PLETE CREATIVE NTROL. HOWEVER, ENSUG RELEAS FAILED TO MATCH WHAT’S GOG ON’S MERCIAL APPEAL. MEANWHILE, GAYE’S MARRIAGE TO ANNA GORDY - SISTER TO MOTOWN LABEL HEAD BERRY GORDY - WAS DISTEGRATG. THE UPLE SEPARATED 1973, FOLLOWG ALLEGATNS OF ABE AND CHEATG ON BOTH SIS.DPE THE CHAOS GOG ON HIS OWN LIFE, GAYE WAS DRAWN TO A SOULFUL SONG PENNED BY IEND AND FORMER DOO-WOP SGER ED TOWNSEND. IN S ORIGAL FORM, THE TUNE WAS “ABOUT THE BS OF GETTG ON WH LIFE,” SPIRED BY TOWNSEND’S REHAB AND REVERY OM ALHOLISM. IN GAYE’S HAND’S THE SONG TOOK ON A DIFFERENT TONE.“MARV ULD SG THE LORD'S PRAYER AND WOULD HAVE SEXUAL OVERTON,” TOWNSEND IS QUOTED AS SAYG THE LER NOT TO THE LUXE EDN OF LET’S GET IT ON. STILL, THE MO VERSN OF THE TUNE WAS MORE ABOUT BROTHERLY LOVE THAN ROMANCE. HOWEVER, WHEN GAYE WENT TO LAY DOWN THE MASTER VOLS FOR THE TRACK, HIS LIVERY CHANGED - LARGELY BEE OF WHO WAS WATCHG.DURG THE SSN, ONE OF TOWNSEND’S IENDS, BARBARA HUNTER, ARRIVED WH HER TEENAGE DGHTER, JANIS. DPE THEIR AGE DIFFERENCE, THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATE SPARK BETWEEN GAYE AND JANIS, AND THIS STANT FATUATN IS LARGELY CREDED FOR AFFECTG THE R&B SGER’S RENDN OF “LET’S GET IT ON.”“THE PRENCE OF THIS YOUNG GIRL PELLED HIM TO PERFORM THE SONG TO HER,” EXPLAED THE LUXE EDN LER NOT, “AND SO DOG, WAS TRANSFORMED TO THE MASTERPIECE OF RAW EMOTN WE KNOW SO WELL.”LISTEN TO MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON'THE TRACK WOULD SHARE S TLE WH GAYE’S 1973 LP. ON S NER SLEEVE, THE SGER ADDRSED NTROVERSY SURROUNDG HIS SEXUALLY CHARGED LYRICS. “I N'T SEE ANYTHG WRONG WH SEX BETWEEN NSENTG ANYBODI,” GAYE EXPLAED. “I THK WE MAKE FAR TOO MUCH OF . AFTER ALL, ONE'S GENALS ARE JT ONE PART OF THE MAGNIFICENT HUMAN BODY. … I NTEND THAT SEX IS SEX AND LOVE IS LOVE. WHEN BED, THEY WORK WELL TOGETHER, IF TWO PEOPLE ARE ABOUT THE SAME MD …. HAVE YOUR SEX, N BE VERY EXCG, IF YOU'RE LUCKY.”“LET’S GET ON” BEME ONE OF GAYE’S MOST POPULAR SONGS, GOG PLATUM THE U.S. AND EARNG A LEGACY AS ONE OF THE GREATT BABY-MAKG TUN OF ALL TIME.GAYE AND JANIS WOULD MARRY 1977 AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER, NONA AND FRANKIE. THE UPLE DIVORCED 1981, THREE YEARS BEFORE GAYE'S ATH. TOP 100 '70S ROCK ALBUMS
• MARV GAYE - LET'S GET IT ON - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD
• ED SHEERAN SGS, PLAYS GUAR COURT AS PART OF MARV GAYE PLAGIARISM CASE
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ CHANGED THE SOUND OF R&B FOREVER
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE – LET’S GET IT ON (INSTMENTAL)TDH - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD
• 50 THGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MARV GAYE'S WHAT'S GOG ON

THE SPIR, THE FLH AND MARV GAYE

Gaye had racked up a seri of hs wh Tammi Terrell, songs like “A’t No Mounta High Enough” and “I Could Build My Whole World around You. In the halcyon days of the Sixti, when Marv Gaye sgl were sellg almost as fast as they uld make them, Motown ed to ll Marv , give him ten songs, and turn on the tap.

MARV GAYE LET'S GET IT ON SOUND EFFECT (FREE DOWNLOAD) (1) - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD

It is this apparent distance between the pany and the sger that giv rise to perdic mors that Marv Gaye is lookg to sign wh another pany. Motown says will release an album om the Oakland ncert soon and that, sometime this year, there will be a special four-rerd Marv Gaye anthology album, cludg all the hs om 1961 on. Two weeks after the Oakland date, Marv Gaye was San Diego to watch his man, Lee Mandgo, go a ten-round ma event wh Duane Bobick at the New Colism.

In the yellow adobe drsg room wh the unshad sgle bulb swgg om a rd above, Gaye is tellg his man to get there, jab twice and back out. Above all, has Marv Gaye’s bt sgg at s center, fe background voic on the si, and a long, moody fa-out that challeng you not to play the cut aga. For the rt of the LP, Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Go’ On, his very bt rerd to date.

‘LET’S GET IT ON’ SGLE: MARV GAYE’S SENSUAL SOUL GROOVE

The first si was -wrten and -produced by veteran rock hand Ed Townshend, and flows wh ease, the melodi sometim unrveloped, but Gaye’s voice, hoverg around the falsetto, holdg our attentn and providg unique transns mood and style that happily brg back to a reprise of the tle cut, “Keep Gett’ It On.

Instead, ebbs and flows, ocsnally threateng to spend self on an sufficiency of ias, but always retrieved, jt time, by Gaye’s performance.

A CLASSIC REVISED: “LET’S GET IT ON” BY MARV GAYE

Unfortunately, the album lacks the warmth and inty of the Marv Gaye-Tammi Terrell and Nick Ashford-Valerie Simpson llaboratns, although the latter’s fluence domat the sgg.

Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” h the top to bee the send of his three US pop chart-toppers, and got listeners hot unr the llar wh s subject matter. The song was wrten and produced by Gaye wh Ed Townsend, who would later ntend that his ial ia wh the lyric was not about sex, but about overg addictn, and gettg on wh the bs of life. ” The ssns, rerd at Motown’s Hsville Wt Studs March 1973, featured such celebrated players as horn men Plas Johnson and Ernie Watts and the Csars’ duo of Joe Sample and Wilton Felr, as well as Gaye himself on piano.

HOW A STUD GUT INSPIRED MARV GAYE TO ‘GET IT ON’COREY IRWCOREY IRWUPDATED: JUNE 22, 2020MOTOWNSHARETWEETIN JUNE 1973, MARV GAYE CEMENTED HIS STAT AS ONE OF MIC'S SEXUAL INS WH HIS H SGLE "LET'S GET IT ON."THE YEARS LEADG UP TO THE SGLE’S RELEASE WERE TURBULENT FOR GAYE. AFTER THE MASSIVE SUCCS OF HIS 1971 LP WHAT’S GOG ON, THE SGER SRED A NEW NTRACT, PROMISG HIM MORE MONEY AND PLETE CREATIVE NTROL. HOWEVER, ENSUG RELEAS FAILED TO MATCH WHAT’S GOG ON’S MERCIAL APPEAL. MEANWHILE, GAYE’S MARRIAGE TO ANNA GORDY - SISTER TO MOTOWN LABEL HEAD BERRY GORDY - WAS DISTEGRATG. THE UPLE SEPARATED 1973, FOLLOWG ALLEGATNS OF ABE AND CHEATG ON BOTH SIS.DPE THE CHAOS GOG ON HIS OWN LIFE, GAYE WAS DRAWN TO A SOULFUL SONG PENNED BY IEND AND FORMER DOO-WOP SGER ED TOWNSEND. IN S ORIGAL FORM, THE TUNE WAS “ABOUT THE BS OF GETTG ON WH LIFE,” SPIRED BY TOWNSEND’S REHAB AND REVERY OM ALHOLISM. IN GAYE’S HAND’S THE SONG TOOK ON A DIFFERENT TONE.“MARV ULD SG THE LORD'S PRAYER AND WOULD HAVE SEXUAL OVERTON,” TOWNSEND IS QUOTED AS SAYG THE LER NOT TO THE LUXE EDN OF LET’S GET IT ON. STILL, THE MO VERSN OF THE TUNE WAS MORE ABOUT BROTHERLY LOVE THAN ROMANCE. HOWEVER, WHEN GAYE WENT TO LAY DOWN THE MASTER VOLS FOR THE TRACK, HIS LIVERY CHANGED - LARGELY BEE OF WHO WAS WATCHG.DURG THE SSN, ONE OF TOWNSEND’S IENDS, BARBARA HUNTER, ARRIVED WH HER TEENAGE DGHTER, JANIS. DPE THEIR AGE DIFFERENCE, THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATE SPARK BETWEEN GAYE AND JANIS, AND THIS STANT FATUATN IS LARGELY CREDED FOR AFFECTG THE R&B SGER’S RENDN OF “LET’S GET IT ON.”“THE PRENCE OF THIS YOUNG GIRL PELLED HIM TO PERFORM THE SONG TO HER,” EXPLAED THE LUXE EDN LER NOT, “AND SO DOG, WAS TRANSFORMED TO THE MASTERPIECE OF RAW EMOTN WE KNOW SO WELL.”LISTEN TO MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON'THE TRACK WOULD SHARE S TLE WH GAYE’S 1973 LP. ON S NER SLEEVE, THE SGER ADDRSED NTROVERSY SURROUNDG HIS SEXUALLY CHARGED LYRICS. “I N'T SEE ANYTHG WRONG WH SEX BETWEEN NSENTG ANYBODI,” GAYE EXPLAED. “I THK WE MAKE FAR TOO MUCH OF . AFTER ALL, ONE'S GENALS ARE JT ONE PART OF THE MAGNIFICENT HUMAN BODY. … I NTEND THAT SEX IS SEX AND LOVE IS LOVE. WHEN BED, THEY WORK WELL TOGETHER, IF TWO PEOPLE ARE ABOUT THE SAME MD …. HAVE YOUR SEX, N BE VERY EXCG, IF YOU'RE LUCKY.”“LET’S GET ON” BEME ONE OF GAYE’S MOST POPULAR SONGS, GOG PLATUM THE U.S. AND EARNG A LEGACY AS ONE OF THE GREATT BABY-MAKG TUN OF ALL TIME.GAYE AND JANIS WOULD MARRY 1977 AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER, NONA AND FRANKIE. THE UPLE DIVORCED 1981, THREE YEARS BEFORE GAYE'S ATH. TOP 100 '70S ROCK ALBUMS

Townsend, who had known Gaye through the 1960s, wrote the ler not for the 2001 luxe edn of the album: “I have been blsed to work wh many great volists my reer, but none que like Marv Gaye. “I been really tryyyyyyyyyyg baby…” Now Marv Gaye know he a’t have to try that hard, he was a whole sex symbol wh a voice that ma panti drop wh a note and “Let’s Get It On” solidified that. However, when Gaye went to lay down the master vols for the track, his livery changed - largely bee of who was the ssn, one of Townsend’s iends, Barbara Hunter, arrived wh her teenage dghter, Janis.

Dpe their age difference, there was an immediate spark between Gaye and Janis, and this stant fatuatn is largely creded for affectg the R&B sger’s rendn of “Let’s Get It On.

In a packed New York urtroom, Ed Sheeran picked up his guar Thursday and lnched to a tune that has him locked a pyright dispute over Marv Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get On” as the only dience that mattered — a jury — looked on. Then he lnched to the song that heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer on “Let’s Get It On, ” say has “strikg siari” and “over mon elements” to the famed 1973 Gaye mil treasure. NEW YORK — A feral jury New York nclud Thursday that Brish sger Ed Sheeran didn't steal key ponents of Marv Gaye's classic 1970s tune "Let's Get It On" when he created his h song "Thkg Out Loud.

MARV GAYE - LET'S GET IT ON - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD

It would bee the first Top 10 LP for Gaye, a major rerdg artist who’d had many h sgl but hadn’t reached higher than number 33 on the Top 200 album chart. The album was unlike anythg prevly released by a Black superstar: Wrten and produced by Gaye (a first for any Motown artist not named Smokey Robson) and clockg at jt over 35 mut, secured his spot as one of mic’s leadg Black trs of the . He wasn’t the first Black artist to produce challengg mic after assumg plete creative ntrol — Jam Brown had done and so had former Imprsns lear Curtis Mayfield — but Gaye, who butted heads hard wh Motown orr to pursue a new artistic directn (he was signed to the Motown imprt Tamla), was the first to do wh such a thematilly and milly hive statement.

ED SHEERAN SGS, PLAYS GUAR COURT AS PART OF MARV GAYE PLAGIARISM CASE

If he had wanted to, Gaye probably uld have spent years astg on the 1968 succs of “I Heard It Through the Grapeve, ” a chart-toppg smash that, at one pot, was Motown’s bt-sellg sgle of all time.

That probably would have helped Motown head Berry Gordy, who has said that he was “terrified” when Gaye first said he wanted to make a “prott album, ” sleep easier at night. But stead of vg to creative expectatns, Gaye cid to challenge himself and his dience by embarkg on a stunng mic reventn that rivaled what The Beatl had done a half- earlier wh “Rubber Soul.

JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'

” Gaye, who had once harbored aspiratns to be the Black Frank Satra, thoroughly transformed his sound and image, creatg a new chameleonic mil persona that would rry him through the ‘70s. From “What’s Gog On” to “Let’s Get It On” to “I Want You” to “Here, My Dear, ” no Gaye album would sound que like the one that preced .

In addn to reposng and rebrandg Gaye s before “rebrandg” beme a thg, “What’s Gog On” blend the polil and the relig a way no sger had managed to do sce Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” seven years earlier. ” John Lennon rerd “Image” about a week after the release of “What’s Gog On, ” and although the former Beatle had already been tacklg polil them his solo work, ’s easy to image him beg fluenced and spired by Gaye’s foray to social nscns. The followg year, Gaye’s Motown labelmate Stevie Wonr would, like Gaye, assume creative ntrol of his reer and release “Talkg Book, ” which end a ne-year Top 10 dry spell on the album chart and began his n of ‘70s classics.

HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ CHANGED THE SOUND OF R&B FOREVER

Cyndi Lper, Robert Palmer, and Angela Wbh all enjoyed chart hs wh remak of “What’s Gog On” tracks; the Strok vered “Mercy Mercy Me” as a B-si; and when D’Angelo burst onto the R&B scene 1995 wh his “Brown Sugar” album, he sound like the rernatn of Gaye, who was killed by his father 1984, on the day before his 45th birthday. Although he rerd a thematilly siar album, “You’re the Man, ” as a follow-up, that project was shelved and went unreleased until 2019, and Gaye would never aga make such an overtly album-length polil statement. Curtis Mayfield veered to social nscns nearly one year before Gaye did wh his 1970 but solo album “Curtis, ” but like Jam Brown’s proclamatns of Black pri om the same era, sounds thoroughly of s time.

Gaye uld release today, and s melodi wouldn’t be out of place, and lyrics like “Crime is creasg/ Trigger-happy policg/ Panic is spreadg/ God knows where we’re headg” (om “Inner Cy Blu”) would stg as acutely now as they did then. Reviews were somewhat mixed upon s release (like several other ‘70s Gaye albums, cludg “Let’s Get It On” and “Here, My Dear, ” s cril reputatn would grow over time), and spe lnchg three Top 10 sgl, the album wasn’t a naway chart h. It only reached number six on the Top 200 album chart, and sred jt one Grammy nomatn, bt R&B vol performance, male, for “Inner Cy Blu (Make You Wanna Holler), ” which Gaye lost to Lou Rawls’ “A Natural Man.

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There may not have been a surpl of joy on “What’s Gog On, ” but by scendg so betifully to spair, Gaye created brand new hope for generatns to e.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud. “Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.

”ImageEd Townsend was a songwrer and producer who llaborated wh Gaye on the “Let’s Get It On” Ochs Archiv/Getty ImagWhat parts of the songs are dispute?

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The trial was watched closely mic and legal circl as the latt example a seri of s that have alt wh whether monplace bs of harmony or melody n be owned by any poser or are part of the public trend began 2015 when a jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, their h “Blurred L, ” had ged on the pyright of another Gaye tune, “Got to Give It Up, ” and they were orred to pay more than $5 ln damag. Perhaps one of Motown’s most versatile performers, Marv Gaye joed Motown as a dmmer, after a stt wh Harvey and the Moonglows the 1950s. The bt soundg track for me was Distant Lover, givg somethg close to the "right there the room" of my iends who was there said when he returned om reloadg his drk, "I'm not a Marv Gaye fan, (no he was Led Zeppel, Deep Purple) but his goln voice, and the texture of the acpanyg mic is so tasty, I would have no problem listeng to this multiple tim.

Reviewed the Uned Kgdom on January 15, 2020Sometim regard rather one-dimensnally as an erotic masterpiece, Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” is ed mostly about physil love, but nsirs the subject as multidimensnal as n possibly be. And above all this is Marv, sgg a relaxed and very soulful mood, probably reflectg also his acplished relatnship wh first wife Anna Gardy Gaye and fdg a new me Janis Hunter, who “happened to be” the stud durg a rerdg ssn.

Aber Platten, nen Liebe und Sex so verschmelzen, wie f "Let's Get It On", m Soul-Meisterwerk von Marv Gaye s m Jahre 1973, die gibt nur selten. Doch Gaye glbt man efach, wenn er "Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away)" seer Angebeten erklärt, wie sehr er sie liebt or "If I Should Die Tonight" darüber philosophiert, dass er higen Gewissens s m Leben schein kann, da er die wahre Liebe kennengelernt dann gibt da die Songs über n Sex.

50 THGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MARV GAYE'S WHAT'S GOG ON

Die sanfte Instmentieng umschmeichelt Gay wunrvolle ist sowio ee r Stärken, sowohl von "Let's Get It On" als ch vom zwei Jahre vorher veröffentlichten "What's Gog On" - die Mik lullt n Hörer e, fselt ihn f unspektakuläre, aber dafür äußerst sanfte Art und Weise. Und wenn ch die Asagen r bein vielleicht bekanntten und bten Platten Gay unterschiedlicher km se könnten: Mikalisch haben sie e geme - sie sd großartig! Wh progrs, 100 years we'll look back on the rerd as an album that broke down barriers and beme the blueprt on how to live harmonly wh each other and our, though, let's take a closer look at the makg of Gaye's masterpiece as the album reach s mid-life surround by a world still crisis.

The boss at Motown thought Gaye was jeopardizg his reer wh this albumIn the fall of 1970, Gaye was so exced about the prott album he had md — and the song "What's Gog On" that he'd jt fished — that he tracked down the head of Motown Rerds, Berry Gordy, who was on vatn the Bahamas, to tell him the ia. Bettg on 30 days of What's Gog OnAfter Gordy had been proven wrong about the succs of the sgle "What's Gog On, " he drove to Gaye's hoe to ask for the full album. This irked Gaye, bee Gordy had actively tried to stop the song om beg Gordy knew that one sure-fire way to get mic out of Gaye was to make a bet wh the sger.

Gaye flew across the untry to fulfil an actg mment, all the while nstantly addg to the songs, even until the last moments before the fal mix. 'What's Gog On' almost beme a song for vol group the OrigalsIn mid-1970, after workg on the song wh lyricist Al Cleveland, Benson fally had a chance to play for Gaye after trackg him down on a golf urse. What's Gog On was a statement, not a qutnThe qutn mark Benson had origally fixed to the album's tle track was liberately removed by Gaye.

The album hered a new look for GayeTo separate himself om the fishg-school look of other Motown artists, Gaye changed his image while rerdg this album. Many of his fans pied his fashn sense, but Gaye later admted to bgrapher David Rz that he wore them to ver up a growg bald spot on the top of his head, and was tickled to see people wear them to look Gaye, wearg his signature toque.

Unlike most producers, Gaye sat down the Snakep wh the micians, leadg the rhythm sectn and playg piano stead of producg om behd the glass the Snakep, where What's Gog On was rerd. Art supervisor Curtis McNair chose the now-famo shot, but his boss rejected bee he thought you uld see too far up Gaye's nostrils. McNair fought for the photo, and enlisted Gaye's opn; Gaye backed McNair's choice five sends flat sayg, "This is fely the ver right here.

The end of 'The Sound of Young Ameri'Both the ont and rear ver shots for the album were taken the backyard of the hoe where Gaye and his wife were livg wh their son, Marv III. Gaye was ls ncerned wh the album photo shoot bee he'd yet to fish the album, so he quickly stepped out to his backyard to take the pictur.

In the image on the rear of the album, Gaye is surround by a swg set and toys piled up agast a wall, echog one of the album's central songs, "Save the Children.

Gaye went heavy on percsn players, g Eddie Brown (Gaye's former valet) and Earl Derouen on ngas and bongos, Jack Brokensha on vib and Jack Ashford on tamboure.

Jam Jamerson rerd his bass l while layg flat on his backThe story go that Gaye knew he wanted Motown ssn man and key Funk Brother Jam Jamerson to play bass on the rhythm tracks, so he followed Jamerson down to a lol Detro blu club where the bassist was playg the band.