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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). The rt of the album follows the standard `60s Motown formula, however "Two Can Have A Party, " "Give A Ltle Love, " "You Got What It Tak, " "Hold Me Oh My Darlg, " and the betiful, Gaye-penned "If This World Were Me" (which received some airplay as the flip si of "If I Could") are as strong as the majtic sgl. Most of the were Tammi's prevly unreleased solo songs, wh Gaye's vols add later.

YOU'RE ALL I NEED is the ft album Motown released the sixti, and stands as Gaye and Terrell's goln moment (1969; wh Valerie Simpson, creded as Tammi Terrell) * (1 out of 5) Tammi was gravely ill by 1969 and was no ndn to rerd an album and as a rult, Motown mted a disrpectful crime their effort to get a follow up to the very succsful YOU'RE ALL I NEED.

'"The two mock-duets (both wrten by Gaye-mentor Harvey Fuqua) that actually do feature Tammi unfortunately do not fair much better. "More, More, More" is a predictable throwaway, while the average "I Can't Believe You Love Me" (which was origally Tammi's first solo sgle, released back '65) suffers om Gaye's overdubbg beg much more obv than any of the overdubs on eher of the prev two are a few well-wrten tracks, like the sgle "What You Gave Me" (#49 Pop, #6 R&B) and the morate two-step of "How You Gonna Keep It, " but they too get lost the shuffle of banaly.

Fans of Gaye and Terrell's extraordary duets are advised to stick wh UNITED and YOU'RE ALL I NEED, and pretend that the disgraceful EASY never happened. The only song I don't like is "If This World Were Me, " which was wrten by Marv Gaye.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 2021I am such a Marv Gaye fan and I believe Tammy Terrell helped him unrstand his gift. Un tema que no hace mucho fue becera mil un anunc publicar televisivo una mar tomó Gaye y Tammi Terrell fueron los ponent te dúo maldo, y digo maldo porque ella murió muy joven un tumor cerebral y él fue asado por snocidos motivos. Con uno ellos, su viceprinte, Smokey Robson y su gpo The Miracl nsiguió el primer éxo ventas a nivel tertatal, y po a po primero en el tado Míchigan y spués en el Nueva York y California fueron adquiriendo popularidad n gpos ral que se hicieron famosos ternacnalmente o Temptatns, The Suprem, Four Tops, The Pips o The Jackson Five; y n ntant o Diana Ross, Stevie Wonr o Gladys Gaye fue una las mejor voc solistas la productora, pero cuya aceptación en ncepto ventas siempre tuvo vculado a una mujer.

Y que el éxo Marv Gaye enzó n el tema ant aludido y que se cluye, o no podía ser otra manera, en te doble CD; el tema 'A't No Mounta...

Porque tán tegrados en él los tr álbum publidos junto a Marv Gaye en la Motown, y un pend temas en solar la ntante publidos en dis sgle vilo. Amás en te repilator hay cluidos mos Tammi Terrell n su sola voz versn no edadas algunos temas partidos n Gaye.

Reviewed the Uned Kgdom on July 26, 2019All three albums by Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell, pl three unreleased duets - two alternative tak and one pletely new track, and some Tammi solo tracks to flh out Disc 2, some seeg their first release on this llectn but now more prehensively documented on "Come On And See Me", the plete Tammi solo rerdgs mak this an attractive prospect for Motown llectors.

Zätzlich befn sich f n CDs noch eige Alternativ-Versnen, unveröffentlicht Material und eige Soloversnen von Tammi Terrell s nen später durch Hzufügen von Gay Gangspart Duette produziert wurn. Nicht von ungefähr galt Tammi Terrell damals als die iale Duettpartner für Marv Gaye, r beres zuvor m Mary Wells und Kim Wton Duette gungen hatte. Und ch hte noch wird die Kombatn Marv Gaye/Tammi Terrell oft zu n bten Duetten aller Zeen gezählt.

Trotzm nahm sie, sowe ihr Ztand zuließ, dazwischen im Stud eige ne Songs f (eige Tracks f "You're All I Need" basieren jedoch f Solofnahmen Terells von 1966, nen Gay Gang hzugefügt wur). Gemäß eer Bgraphie über Marv Gaye soll die Produzent Valerie Simpson 1969 die meisten r Songs gungen haben, Terrells Stimme gekonnt imierend. Gaye nennt n Umstand, dass er di Spiel nur ungern mgemacht habe, als Gnd für seen oft weniger tensiven Gang f m Album Easy.

Marv Gaye. Collectg all three Marv Gaye sets Motown's digal download seri to a 45-song sequence, this set is really pretty wonrful, featurg rerdgs om all of Gaye's Motown phas, and reveals aga -- not that was much of a secret -- what a sgular and brilliant artist he was. It's Marv Gaye.

Marv Gaye sparked so nvcgly wh his sgg partners that some listeners still believe he and platonic iend Tammi Terrell had a romantic relatnship both on and off their rerds. (Note: the Gaye-Betty Wright "duet" on "Distant Lover" is a mid-'90s trick of technology, no doubt well meant but tacky sound qualy at the very least. "After the Lights Go Down Low, " wh Mary Wells, is a ballad that outclass the two sis of their sgle clud here, while "I Want You 'Round" is a worthy nfectn for Gaye and Kim Wton.

Marv Gaye's Love Songs: Greatt Duets gathers most of his bt-known duets, anizg them by sgg partner. After gettg off to a poor, but well-meang start wh a 1994 versn of "Distant Lover" that pairs Gaye's origal vols wh re-rerd vols by Betty Wright and tny-soundg productn, the album do a 180 by offerg up some of the bt work Gaye did wh his ultimate duet partner, Tammi Terrell. " Gaye's duet wh Kim Wton, "It Tak Two, " is another of the album's sential tracks, while most of the rt of Love Songs nsists of pleasant but relatively obscure duets such as "Once Upon a Time" and "What's the Matter Wh You Baby" wh Mary Wells and "So Good to Be Loved by You" wh Oma Page.