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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.

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, … * duets with marvin gaye *

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.

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