Disver Love Songs: Bedroom Ballads by Marv Gaye released 2002. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic.
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MARV GAYE: LOVE SONGS: BEDROOM BALLADS
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Marv Gaye. If the midle-priced Marv Gaye pilatn Love Songs: Bedroom Ballads seems to have two tl grafted together, that's not appropriate to the album's ntents.
The album's love songs are the seven romantic standards Gaye labored over for more than a and never released durg his lifetime, tracks that fally were issued 1997 unr the tle Vulnerable. Workg wh lh strg arrangements arranged by Bobby Stt, Gaye rewr the melodi of faiar songs like "The Shadow of Your Se" (heard here wh a prevly unreleased alternate vol), renrg the material h and claimg for his own.
The "bedroom ballads" portn of the album, terspersed wh the other songs, nsists of six tracks that appeared origally on Gaye's albums Let's Get It On, I Want You, In Our Lifetime, and Here, My Dear. Wrten or -wrten by Gaye himself, the songs employ the sger's mixture of romance wh blunt eroticism, notably on tun wh tl like "You Sure Love to Ball" and "Funk Me, " and on "Sce I Had You, " which ntas an asmic background vol track that uldn't be bettered by Donna Summer. Gaye llaborator and bgrapher David Rz nceived this pilatn, which is te to Gaye's romantic sensibily, a batn of sophistitn and physily.
Marv Gaye - Love Songs: Bedroom Ballads - Mic * marvin gaye bedroom ballads *
Marv Gaye is a te artist. I agree wh the reviewer who said he uld make a better Bedroom Ballad CD wh Marv Gaye songs, I n and already have. Still, this CD is a mt have for te Marv Gaye fans...
Marv Gaye has long been acknowledged as the “Crown Prce” of the Motown Corporatn. Begng as a ssn dmmer for the label (after a brief “doo-wop” reer Harvey Fuqua’s MoonGlows and the Ravens), Gaye emerged as the label’s signature male solo volist wh the release of “Stubborn Kd of Fellow” and a strg of soul-pop dti like “How Sweet It Is to Be Loved By You”, “Can I Get a Wns”, and “Hch Hike”. By the mid-1960s, Motown began to nscly pair Gaye wh female volists like Mary Wells and Kim Wton, fally creatg the legendary pairg of Gaye and Tammi Terrell, who have bee the very fn of romantic duets the pop mic dtry.
After Terrell’s ath 1970 of a bra tumor, Gaye embarked on an aggrsive and amb shift his reer, rerdg the ground-breakg “prott” album What’s Gog On (1971). Two years after s release Gaye aga shifted gears, rerdg one of the most majtic tom of rnal pleasure ever wh the hugely fluential Let’s Get It On (1973).