The story of Motown tryg to fd Marv Gaye a duet partner is one of the great melodramas of Amerin pop mic—vexed, tragic, ultimately triumphant, …
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IT TOOK TWO: MARV GAYE’S DUET LEGACY
Disver The Complete Duets by Marv Gaye, Tammi Terrell released 2001. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic. * duets with marvin 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).
Disver His Classic Duets by Marv Gaye released 2020. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic. * duets with marvin gaye *
The story of Motown tryg to fd Marv Gaye a duet partner, which hovers the background of the new reissue “Marv Gaye & His Women, ” is one of the great melodramas of Amerin pop mic—vexed, tragic, ultimately triumphant, and wh a fillip of false optimism at the end. When Gaye first started at Motown the early sixti, he wasn’t particularly terted the sound of Young Ameri.
” They also saw him, their grand visn, as a half of a powerhoe duet team; Berry Gordy’s md, duet albums doubled the potential ctomer 1964, the label paired Gaye wh Mary Wells, then the queen of Motown.
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While the rerd helped to tablish Gaye, the softer tone diluted Wells’s inty, and she left the label. Motown moved Gaye along to Kim Wton; “It Tak Two” was a massive h but Wton, too, parted the label.
Motown, now flailg a b, put Gaye wh a third sger, Oma Page (sometim misintified as Oma Heard): they rerd a few sis that went fourth time was the charm.
In 1966, Gaye was paired wh Tammi Terrell, who had been a teen-age sger for Jam Brown. Mdful of Gaye’s track rerd, they had both sgers rerd versns and then mixed them together. The rult—phed along by Terrell’s crystal-clear vols and Gaye’s imable batn of softns and urgency—went top twenty, and they followed up wh songs like “Your Prec Love” and “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You.