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• MARV GAYE’S ‘I WANT YOU’ GETS THE M+M MIX TREATMENT
• KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU
• MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
• ‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC
• 45 YEARS AGO: MARV GAYE STIRS UP A STORM ON ‘I WANT YOU’MICHAEL GALLUCCIMICHAEL GALLUCCIPUBLISHED: MARCH 16, 2021TAMLASHARETWEETMARV GAYE WAS STILL A PRETTY GOOD PLACE, PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY, EARLY 1976 AS HE WAS PREPPG THE RELEASE OF HIS 14TH ALBUM, I WANT YOU.HIS LAST UPLE OF ALBUMS – 1971'S WHAT'S GOG ON AND 1973'S LET'S GET IT ON – WERE CRIL AND MERCIAL HS, WH THE LATTER LP'S TLE TRACK GOG ALL THE WAY TO NO. 1. IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO RERDS, HE WROTE AND PRODUCED THE SOUNDTRACK FOR TROUBLE MAN. A TLY SOLO ACHIEVEMENT, TROUBLE MAN SERVED AS SOME SORT OF NSOLATN AFTER WHAT'S GOG ON'S SEQUEL, YOU'RE THE MAN, WAS SHELVED BEE OF S POLIL LEANGS.GAYE ALSO EMBARKED ON A SUCCSFUL TOUR AND RERD THE LAST OF HIS POPULAR DUET ALBUMS, THIS ONE WH DIANA ROSS, AROUND THIS TIME. WH TWO YEARS, WOULD ALL E TUMBLG DOWN, AS A MSY DIVORCE, DG ABE, ANOTHER NCELED RERD AND DWDLG SAL PILED UP. BUT 1976, ALL WAS STILL RELATIVELY GOOD.BACK 1970, WHEN HE WAS ASSEMBLG THE SONGS AND IAS THAT WOULD RULT WHAT'S GOG ON, GAYE WAS LEADG A NEW ARTIST-DRIVEN MPAIGN AT MOTOWN, WHICH SLOWLY AND TENTATIVELY BEGAN TO LOOSEN S GRIP ON SOME S STABLE OF STARS. GAYE – WHO'D BEEN AROUND OM NEARLY THE START OF THE PANY, SGG ON HIS OWN HS AS WELL AS PENNG SONGS FOR OTHERS – WASN'T GIVEN TOTAL NTROL OF HIS MIC UNTIL TROUBLE MAN, BUT FOR THE MOST PART HE WAS TSTED WH HIS VISN.THG IS, GAYE DIDN'T ALWAYS TST THAT VISN HIMSELF. IN SOME WAYS, THAT LED TO YOU'RE THE MAN REMAG UNRELEASED AT THE TIME ( FALLY GOT AN OFFICIAL RELEASE 2019). AND WHEN HE WAS PUTTG TOGETHER MIC FOR HIS NEXT ALBUM 1975, HE SOUGHT HELP OM PRODUCER LEON WARE, A MOTOWN STAFFER WHO'D RECENTLY SRED SOLO HS FOR MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE SMOKEY ROBSON-LS MIRACL. HE END UP PLAYG A BIG PART  SHAPG WHAT EVENTUALLY BEME I WANT YOU.BUT THE ALBUM'S RE – LIKE LET'S GET IT ON, THE SONGS WERE ABOUT SEX – WAS ALL GAYE. HIS MARRIAGE TO THE SISTER OF HIS MOTOWN BOSS BERRY GORDY WAS GOG THROUGH S FAL STAG AS HIS RELATNSHIP WH JANIS HUNTER, WHOM HE MET DURG THE LET'S GET IT ON SSNS WHEN SHE WAS 17, WAS HEATG UP. TRACKS LIKE "FEEL ALL MY LOVE INSI" AND "SOON I'LL BE LOVG YOU AGA" (WHICH CLUD THE LE "I'M GONNA GIVE YOU SOME HEAD") REFLECTED HIS TENTNS.LISTEN TO MARV GAYE'S 'I WANT YOU'GAYE AND WARE HOLED UP THE ARTIST'S NEWLY OPENED MARV'S ROOM STUD LOS ANGEL, WHERE THEY, ALONG WH MOTOWN'S FUNK BROTHERS SSN MICIANS, SPENT CHUNKS OF 1975 AND EARLY 1976 WORKG ON THE ALBUM. LIKE HE'D BEEN DOG ON HIS PREV RERDS, GAYE MULTI-TRACKED HIMSELF SGG DIFFERENT PARTS.HE ALSO BEGAN EXPERIMENTG WH A SYNTHIZER, WHICH PLEMENTED THE NEW MIL DIRECTN WARE STARTED STEERG TOWARD. MORE EXPANSIVE AND SWEEPG THAN MUCH OF GAYE'S PREV WORK, MANY OF THE SONGS ON I WANT YOU TOOK A SLOW-BURN APPROACH TO S MELDG OF SOUL, FUNK AND DIS. (THE OPENG TLE TRACK, FOR EXAMPLE, IS A THIRD OVER BEFORE GAYE STARTS SGG.) ELEMENTS OF JAZZ AND DOO-WOP ALSO FOUND THEIR WAY TO THE MATERIAL, BRIDGG GAYE'S '60S AND EARLY '70S MIC WH A NEW FUTURE.THIS ALL ADD UP TO A SLIGHTLY DISJOTED BUT MOSTLY PTIVATG ALBUM THAT SEEMED LIKE ANOTHER TURNG POT FOR THE ARTIST, EVEN UPON S RELEASE ON MARCH 16, 1976. THE THREE-YEAR BREAK SCE HIS LAST LP CERTALY HAD SOME EFFECT HERE, BUT THE MIL LEAP HAD ALMOST AS MUCH TO DO WH GAYE AND WARE'S BED VISN.THERE WEREN'T A WHOLE LOT OF ALBUMS THAT SOUND LIKE I WANT YOU AT THE TIME, BUT THE S SCE, THE ALBUM'S "QUIET STORM" SOUND SPIRED A GENRE, AS WELL AS AN ENTIRE MOVEMENT OF NEO-SOUL ARTISTS THE '90S AND BEYOND. THE EP BASS, SPACEY SOUNDSP AND GROOVE-BASED BEATS A WAY WERE JT A STEP OR TWO AHEAD OF THE BURGEONG DIS SCENE, BUT THE OVERALL PICTURE SEEMS MUCH WIR NOW.NOT THAT THE ALBUM WAS APPRECIATED AS MUCH BACK THEN. IT H NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD'S SOUL CHART AND NO. 4 ON THE LP CHART (AS THEY WERE LLED AT THE TIME) AND DID MANAGE TO SELL A LN PI. SOMEONE OF GAYE'S STATURE ALMOST ALWAYS CHARTED WELL G OFF A PREV SUCCS, AND THE ALBUM'S FIRST SGLE, THE TLE TRACK, MA TO NO. 1 AND 15, ON THE RPECTIVE SOUL AND POP CHARTS – WHICH ALSO HELPED STIR TERT.BUT I WANT YOU DIDN'T CLICK WH FANS THE WAY WHAT'S GOG ON AND LET'S GET IT ON DID. THOSE NTROVERSIAL LYRICS CERTALY DIDN'T HELP SPREADG THE WORD ON RAD OR NNECTG WH MORE NSERVATIVE-MD LISTENERS. AND SPE THE NO. 1 STUD SGLE "GOT TO GIVE IT UP" OM THE OTHERWISE LIVE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM ALBUM 1977, THE NEXT YEAR'S HERE, MY DEAR AND 1981'S IN MY LIFETIME NTUED A DOWNWARD TURN GAYE'S REER THAT EVENTUALLY PICKED UP WH 1982'S MIDNIGHT LOVE AND PECIALLY THE "SEXUAL HEALG" SGLE BEFORE HIS 1984 ATH.IT WASN'T LONG, THOUGH, BEFORE I WANT YOU AND, EVEN MORE NOTABLY, HERE, MY DEAR BEME RNERSTONE RERDS GAYE'S LATE REER. THE LATTER WAS AN TENTNALLY UNMERCIAL DOUBLE RERD SIGNED TO NTRACTUALLY FULFILL A DIVORCE-SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. I WANT YOU, AT TIM, N SOUND LIKE A SIAR MERCIAL KISS-OFF, BUT ME OM AN ENTIRELY OPPOSE SPOT GAYE'S LIFE, WHEN HE WAS A MUCH BETTER PLACE. IT'S DIFFICULT, 'S HORNY AND 'S FELY NOT FOR EVERYONE. BUT 'S ALSO ON THE VERGE OF SOMETHG REALLY EXCG AT TIM. TOP 100 '70S ROCK ALBUMS
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• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

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

“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:. Gaye’s obssn wh the woman her late teens is nearly palpable the sensual textur that are the album’s ral and lyril signature.

KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU

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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.

MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED

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The 1970s were a of rurgence for Marv Gaye.

It was this tr of succs that set the stage for Gaye’s next mil revelatn. After meetg Motown songwrer and producer Leon Ware, and imprsed by new mic Ware was producg for his own solo album, Gaye cid to strike up a productn partnership. Durg the rerdg procs, the love of his life, Janis Gaye, also provid a nstant source of emotnal spiratn.

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

The rultg LP, I Want You, beme another signature album Gaye’s sterlg llectn of releas, explorg them of sensualy, sctn, eroticism and rnal passn. Wh the assistance of Ware and Arthur “T-Boy” Ross, as well as an assemblage of top-notch micians, Gaye was able to reach new creative heights, firmly cementg his stat as soul mic’s leadg man the mds of both ntemporary artists and his fans, who celebrated LP sgl like “After the Dance, ” “Sce I Had You, ” and the number one h “I Want You.

In celebratn of what would have been Marv Gaye’s 77th birthday on April 2nd, 2016, RBMA spoke wh Leon Ware and Janis Gaye about their important supportg rol the creatn of I Want You. Marv Gaye Nottg Hill, London, 1976 John Mihan/Eveng Standard/Getty Imag When and where did you first meet Marv Gaye? I was a big Marv Gaye fan.

45 YEARS AGO: MARV GAYE STIRS UP A STORM ON ‘I WANT YOU’MICHAEL GALLUCCIMICHAEL GALLUCCIPUBLISHED: MARCH 16, 2021TAMLASHARETWEETMARV GAYE WAS STILL A PRETTY GOOD PLACE, PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY, EARLY 1976 AS HE WAS PREPPG THE RELEASE OF HIS 14TH ALBUM, I WANT YOU.HIS LAST UPLE OF ALBUMS – 1971'S WHAT'S GOG ON AND 1973'S LET'S GET IT ON – WERE CRIL AND MERCIAL HS, WH THE LATTER LP'S TLE TRACK GOG ALL THE WAY TO NO. 1. IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO RERDS, HE WROTE AND PRODUCED THE SOUNDTRACK FOR TROUBLE MAN. A TLY SOLO ACHIEVEMENT, TROUBLE MAN SERVED AS SOME SORT OF NSOLATN AFTER WHAT'S GOG ON'S SEQUEL, YOU'RE THE MAN, WAS SHELVED BEE OF S POLIL LEANGS.GAYE ALSO EMBARKED ON A SUCCSFUL TOUR AND RERD THE LAST OF HIS POPULAR DUET ALBUMS, THIS ONE WH DIANA ROSS, AROUND THIS TIME. WH TWO YEARS, WOULD ALL E TUMBLG DOWN, AS A MSY DIVORCE, DG ABE, ANOTHER NCELED RERD AND DWDLG SAL PILED UP. BUT 1976, ALL WAS STILL RELATIVELY GOOD.BACK 1970, WHEN HE WAS ASSEMBLG THE SONGS AND IAS THAT WOULD RULT WHAT'S GOG ON, GAYE WAS LEADG A NEW ARTIST-DRIVEN MPAIGN AT MOTOWN, WHICH SLOWLY AND TENTATIVELY BEGAN TO LOOSEN S GRIP ON SOME S STABLE OF STARS. GAYE – WHO'D BEEN AROUND OM NEARLY THE START OF THE PANY, SGG ON HIS OWN HS AS WELL AS PENNG SONGS FOR OTHERS – WASN'T GIVEN TOTAL NTROL OF HIS MIC UNTIL TROUBLE MAN, BUT FOR THE MOST PART HE WAS TSTED WH HIS VISN.THG IS, GAYE DIDN'T ALWAYS TST THAT VISN HIMSELF. IN SOME WAYS, THAT LED TO YOU'RE THE MAN REMAG UNRELEASED AT THE TIME ( FALLY GOT AN OFFICIAL RELEASE 2019). AND WHEN HE WAS PUTTG TOGETHER MIC FOR HIS NEXT ALBUM 1975, HE SOUGHT HELP OM PRODUCER LEON WARE, A MOTOWN STAFFER WHO'D RECENTLY SRED SOLO HS FOR MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE SMOKEY ROBSON-LS MIRACL. HE END UP PLAYG A BIG PART  SHAPG WHAT EVENTUALLY BEME I WANT YOU.BUT THE ALBUM'S RE – LIKE LET'S GET IT ON, THE SONGS WERE ABOUT SEX – WAS ALL GAYE. HIS MARRIAGE TO THE SISTER OF HIS MOTOWN BOSS BERRY GORDY WAS GOG THROUGH S FAL STAG AS HIS RELATNSHIP WH JANIS HUNTER, WHOM HE MET DURG THE LET'S GET IT ON SSNS WHEN SHE WAS 17, WAS HEATG UP. TRACKS LIKE "FEEL ALL MY LOVE INSI" AND "SOON I'LL BE LOVG YOU AGA" (WHICH CLUD THE LE "I'M GONNA GIVE YOU SOME HEAD") REFLECTED HIS TENTNS.LISTEN TO MARV GAYE'S 'I WANT YOU'GAYE AND WARE HOLED UP THE ARTIST'S NEWLY OPENED MARV'S ROOM STUD LOS ANGEL, WHERE THEY, ALONG WH MOTOWN'S FUNK BROTHERS SSN MICIANS, SPENT CHUNKS OF 1975 AND EARLY 1976 WORKG ON THE ALBUM. LIKE HE'D BEEN DOG ON HIS PREV RERDS, GAYE MULTI-TRACKED HIMSELF SGG DIFFERENT PARTS.HE ALSO BEGAN EXPERIMENTG WH A SYNTHIZER, WHICH PLEMENTED THE NEW MIL DIRECTN WARE STARTED STEERG TOWARD. MORE EXPANSIVE AND SWEEPG THAN MUCH OF GAYE'S PREV WORK, MANY OF THE SONGS ON I WANT YOU TOOK A SLOW-BURN APPROACH TO S MELDG OF SOUL, FUNK AND DIS. (THE OPENG TLE TRACK, FOR EXAMPLE, IS A THIRD OVER BEFORE GAYE STARTS SGG.) ELEMENTS OF JAZZ AND DOO-WOP ALSO FOUND THEIR WAY TO THE MATERIAL, BRIDGG GAYE'S '60S AND EARLY '70S MIC WH A NEW FUTURE.THIS ALL ADD UP TO A SLIGHTLY DISJOTED BUT MOSTLY PTIVATG ALBUM THAT SEEMED LIKE ANOTHER TURNG POT FOR THE ARTIST, EVEN UPON S RELEASE ON MARCH 16, 1976. THE THREE-YEAR BREAK SCE HIS LAST LP CERTALY HAD SOME EFFECT HERE, BUT THE MIL LEAP HAD ALMOST AS MUCH TO DO WH GAYE AND WARE'S BED VISN.THERE WEREN'T A WHOLE LOT OF ALBUMS THAT SOUND LIKE I WANT YOU AT THE TIME, BUT THE S SCE, THE ALBUM'S "QUIET STORM" SOUND SPIRED A GENRE, AS WELL AS AN ENTIRE MOVEMENT OF NEO-SOUL ARTISTS THE '90S AND BEYOND. THE EP BASS, SPACEY SOUNDSP AND GROOVE-BASED BEATS A WAY WERE JT A STEP OR TWO AHEAD OF THE BURGEONG DIS SCENE, BUT THE OVERALL PICTURE SEEMS MUCH WIR NOW.NOT THAT THE ALBUM WAS APPRECIATED AS MUCH BACK THEN. IT H NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD'S SOUL CHART AND NO. 4 ON THE LP CHART (AS THEY WERE LLED AT THE TIME) AND DID MANAGE TO SELL A LN PI. SOMEONE OF GAYE'S STATURE ALMOST ALWAYS CHARTED WELL G OFF A PREV SUCCS, AND THE ALBUM'S FIRST SGLE, THE TLE TRACK, MA TO NO. 1 AND 15, ON THE RPECTIVE SOUL AND POP CHARTS – WHICH ALSO HELPED STIR TERT.BUT I WANT YOU DIDN'T CLICK WH FANS THE WAY WHAT'S GOG ON AND LET'S GET IT ON DID. THOSE NTROVERSIAL LYRICS CERTALY DIDN'T HELP SPREADG THE WORD ON RAD OR NNECTG WH MORE NSERVATIVE-MD LISTENERS. AND SPE THE NO. 1 STUD SGLE "GOT TO GIVE IT UP" OM THE OTHERWISE LIVE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM ALBUM 1977, THE NEXT YEAR'S HERE, MY DEAR AND 1981'S IN MY LIFETIME NTUED A DOWNWARD TURN GAYE'S REER THAT EVENTUALLY PICKED UP WH 1982'S MIDNIGHT LOVE AND PECIALLY THE "SEXUAL HEALG" SGLE BEFORE HIS 1984 ATH.IT WASN'T LONG, THOUGH, BEFORE I WANT YOU AND, EVEN MORE NOTABLY, HERE, MY DEAR BEME RNERSTONE RERDS GAYE'S LATE REER. THE LATTER WAS AN TENTNALLY UNMERCIAL DOUBLE RERD SIGNED TO NTRACTUALLY FULFILL A DIVORCE-SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. I WANT YOU, AT TIM, N SOUND LIKE A SIAR MERCIAL KISS-OFF, BUT ME OM AN ENTIRELY OPPOSE SPOT GAYE'S LIFE, WHEN HE WAS A MUCH BETTER PLACE. IT'S DIFFICULT, 'S HORNY AND 'S FELY NOT FOR EVERYONE. BUT 'S ALSO ON THE VERGE OF SOMETHG REALLY EXCG AT TIM. TOP 100 '70S ROCK ALBUMS

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” – Janis Gaye For the time perd, this album was nsired a b risqué.

MARV GAYE - I WANT YOU LYRICS

Marv Gaye - After the Dance Of urse, there was a huge sexual aspect to , but was so smooth and elegantly done that people uldn’t say was vulgar. – Janis Gaye Janis Gaye.

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Marv Gaye - Soon I'll Be Lovg You Aga Janis Gaye. Marv Gaye - Feel All My Love Insi As you went by the wag area where the micians hung out, if you ma a left, you would go down this ty hallway to the ntrol room. Marv Gaye 1973.

Marv Gaye was one of the greatt sgers of all time, who rerd some of the ft ever soul songs a short perd of time.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

Taken far too soon, Marv Gaye's mic took on var styl, om upliftg duets to heartbreakg ballads to socially-nsc 've taken his 10 very bt songs for the ultimate Marv Gaye troductn:. Marv Gaye “How Sweet It Is” Live At Montrx Jazz Ftival 1980 HD. Wrten by the famo Holland–Dozier–Holland tr at Motown, this gave Marv Gaye his biggt h at the time song's tle was spired by one of Jackie Gleason's signature tchphras: "How Sweet It Is!

Released on Motown's Tamla label 1966, this duet between Marv and Kim Wton scrib var thgs life - such as dreams, love and wish - beg far better wh two people stead of more: The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legendIn 1990, Rod Stewart and Ta Turner teamed up for a ver versn, takg to number five the UK.

Origally by Dn, this song was a tribute to four inic Amerins who were assassated: Abraham Lln, Mart Luther Kg Jr, John F Kennedy and Robert Gaye vered the song 1970, and was one of his first experiments socially-nsc mic, a year before his What's Gog On? A't No Mounta High Enough (extra HQ) - Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell. Songwrers Ashford & Simpson scribed this song as their 'goln egg' which got them their first Motown Sprgfield wanted to rerd first, but the duo turned her down so that they uld secure Motown, and land wh Marv and Tammi Terrell, who sred a big h wh their origal more: Tammi Terrell - The tragic life story of a Motown sger and how Marv Gaye never got over her athThree years later, Diana Ross achieved her first solo US number one wh a ver versn g a different arrangement.

Marv Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (From "Live at Montrx 1980" DVD).