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‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK
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Marv Gaye.
After brilliantly surveyg the social, polil, and spirual landspe wh What's Gog On, Marv Gaye turned to more timate matters wh Let's Get It On, a rerd unparalleled s sheer sensualy and rnal energy. Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passns reach their boilg pot on tracks like the magnificent tle h (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmerg, the mic is sctive the most leral sense, s fluid groov so perfectly signed for romance as to borr on parody.
Marv Gaye artwork - Courty: UMG. Marv Gaye started releasg albums at the age of jt 22, 1961.
Marv Gaye sled even greater heights than wh ‘What's Gog On,’ after ‘Let’s Get It On’ me out on Augt 28, 1973. * let's get it on marvin gaye album cover *
Gaye fans were primed and ready for this sensuo celebratn via the tle track lead sgle, which h the charts July that year and was the send of a six-week n atop the Billboard Hot 100 when the album charted. “Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Gog On, his very bt rerd to date, ” wrote Jon Land Rollg Stone.
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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. 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.
Marv Gaye origally released Let's Get It On wrten by Marv Gaye and Ed Townsend and Marv Gaye released on the album Let's Get It On 1973. It was also vered by World Saxophone Quartet, Bigband Brass & Fun, The Pasanas, Drew's Famo and other artists. It is sampled by N.W.A.. * let's get it on marvin gaye album cover *
Gaye produced the send si, and is more darg and self-nsc.
Instead, ebbs and flows, ocsnally threateng to spend self on an sufficiency of ias, but always retrieved, jt time, by Gaye’s performance. 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 ’70s ncept albums spanned wound tak on socpolil ncerns (What’s Gog On), the llapse of his own first marriage (Here, My Dear), and the ep heat of sex and romance celebrated on Let’s Get It On. Gaye, of urse, ma sctn the rerd’s center, but hardly s only subject.
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Even the tle track, ed endlsly by media as a cue for unbridled sexs, has s philosophil bent (“Sce we got to be here, let’s live”) and a blurred le between love for a woman and the “sanctified” feel of the church Gaye was raised . Marv Gaye Medley.
OverviewAliasTagsReviewsDetailsEdAlbumReleaseArtistFormatTracksCountry/DateLabelCatalog#BarOfficialLet’s Get It OnMarv Gaye12" Vyl8US1973-08-28TamlaT329V1, T 329V1[none]Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeCD8-1992-07-06Motown31453-0055-2731453005525Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeCD8XE1994Motown530 055-2731453005525Let’s Get It On (remastered)Marv GayeCD8US1998-04-07Motown314530885-2731453088528Let's Get It OnMarv GayeCD14XE1998Pegas (UK budget label till 2008 (later release Pegas Entertament))PEG CD 1205034504212022Let's Get It On (luxe edn)Marv Gaye2×CD17 + 20US2001-09-18Motown440 014 757-2044001475726Let’s Get It On (luxe edn)Marv Gaye2×CD17 + 20GB2001-10-01Motown044001475726044001475726Let's Get It OnMarv GayeCD10XE2002Motown064 021-2044006402123Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeCD10US2002Chronicl (a label unr UMG’s Universal Mic Enterpris divisn), Motown440 064 021-2044006402123Let's Get It OnMarv GayeHybrid SACD (CD layer) + Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels) + Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, multichannel)8 + 8 + 8US2002Motown, TamlaB0000935-36602498605943Let's Get It OnMarv GayeCD10US2003-01-14Motown064 021044006402123Let's Get It OnMarv GayeDVD-Aud17US2004-02-24Chronicl (a label unr UMG’s Universal Mic Enterpris divisn), Motown, TamlaB0001922-19602498616604Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeDigal Media10AF2007-12-03AL2007-12-03(show 218 more)ZW2007-12-03Universal Motown (for Motown releas between 2005–2011 only)00044006402123Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeHybrid SACD (CD layer) + Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)8 + 8US2008Mobile Fily Sound Lab, TamlaUDSACD 2039821797203968Let’s Get It OnMarv Gaye12" Vyl8US2008Mobile Fily Sound LabMFSL 1-315Let’s Get It OnMarv Gaye2×SHM-CD17 + 20JP2009-04-29TamlaT6-329S1, UICY-94039/404988005554925Let’s Get It On (rari edn)Marv GayeCD20US2010-11-02Motown, Tamla, UMe (imprt of Universal Mic Enterpris)B0014609-02602527458403Let’s Get It On (24-b 192 kHz)Marv GayeDigal Media8XW2014Chronicl (a label unr UMG’s Universal Mic Enterpris divisn), Motown, Tamla(unknown)Let’s Get It OnMarv Gaye12" Vyl8DE1973EMI Electrola GmbH (not for release label e!