‘I Want You’: Marv Gaye’s Hot, Sweaty 1976 Album | uDisver Mic

Contents:

• KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU
• ‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC
• KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU
• MARV GAYE - I WANT YOU LYRICS

KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU

“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.

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

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. I WANT YOU CHORDS by Marv Gaye @.

KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU

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MARV GAYE - I WANT YOU LYRICS

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ArtistMarv Gaye. 70/ more spectacular album the talog of the geni Marv Gaye, don't reach the sane work of What's Gog On but the level of sound and productn on this album is so fuckg good. It is not the pnacle of Marv Gaye but is an excellent soul and R&B album.

my first 2 marv gaye albums were what's gog on and i want you - even though i always slightly preferred the former, there's still a lot to love here.

Really High Highs, a few medcre momentsWhat sets apart Marv Gaye om all other soul sgers? This is not to say that Marv Gaye do not have passnate leads or some of the nict stmental backg to ever grace the soul/RnB landspe.

The tle track soars on the wgs of the hand percsn and the clon of Marv Gaye swayg around as the electric guar rponds.

Ware origally tend to rerd himself, but after Motown CEO Berry Gordy heard a rough versn of , he nvced Ware to give the song to Marv Gaye rerd the song 1975, the sger was spired by his relatnship wh his neteen-year-old girliend Janis Hunter.

The uple met two years earlier when Gaye, who was at the time married to Berry Gordy's sister Anna, was workg on the Let's Get It On album at the LA-based Hsville Wt rerdg stud. Gaye was immediately stck by the teenager and they started sually datg afterwards.

A year after Gaye rerd this song, the uple married, but their relatnship was mostly tumultuo and by 1979, they had Barn' Sugar Shack patg was adapted to be the ver of Gaye's I Want You album. Barn died on April 27, 2009 after a brief Palmer had a UK top ten h 1991 wh a medley of this song and another Marv Gaye number, "Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy). " Diana Ross also vered the song on her 2007 I Love You Gaye was nomated for a Grammy Award for Bt R&B Male Vol Performance wh "I Want You" but lost to Stevie Wonr for "I Wish.

" Gaye prevly lost the award to Wonr 1974 when "Superstn" beat out "Let's Get It On.

" Although they were profsnal rivals, their relatnship was one of ep rpect: Wonr would perform "Lightg Up The Candl" at Gaye's funeral 1984. 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. 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. Janis Gaye. ” – Janis Gaye For the time perd, this album was nsired a b risqué.

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.

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. After pretty much releasg an album a year sce 1961, Marv Gaye slowed down the mid-70s.

Followg his stylistic rebirth at the start of the , the once prolific Gaye creasgly began to agonize over new material. After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged 1976 wh his 14th solo album, releasg at a time when the clubs were eher mblg to the sounds of punk or shakg unr the weight of bodi on the dis dancefloor.

Not that Gaye red.

As s ver art, a 1971 patg by Ernie Barn, entled Sugar Shack, ma abundantly clear, there was no room for manver between Gaye’s erotic fantasi and the barely supprsed mands of his urg. Gaye had stggled to rerd a follow-up to Let’s Get It On, but then he met Leon Ware, songwrer for Michael Jackson, The Miracl, and Mnie Riperton, among many others, and a man who was then workg on his own sexually-charged excursns. Fdg that Ware’s visn was the perfect channel for his own obssn wh Janis Hunter – spiratn for “Let’s Get It On” and, subsequently, the woman wh whom Gaye embarked on a long-term affair – the pair worked on the songs together, Gaye pourg his most tense sir to every groove.