‎I Want You by Marv Gaye on Apple Mic

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“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. 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.

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.

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I Want You, while a Top Ten smash for Marv Gaye 1976, is not as generally as well-known as s precsors for several reasons. Third, Gaye hadn't rerd nearly three years and crics were onto somethg else -- exactly what, retrospect is anybody's gus.

From the amazg Ernie Barn ver patg "Back to Sugar Shack" to the Coleridge-Taylor Perkson strg and horn arrangements to Leon Ware's exotic productn that relied on keyboards as well as dms and bass as rhythm stments, I Want You was a giant leap for Gaye.

But the most astonishg thgs about I Want You are s timacy ( was dited to and rerd ont of Gaye's future send wife, Jan), silky elegance, and seamls textur.

Gaye worked wh producer Leon Ware, who wrote all of the origal songs on the album and worked wh Gaye to revise them, th lendg Gaye a -wrg cred. The tle track is a monster two-step groover wh hand percsn playg unterpot to the strgs and horns layered agast a spare electric guar solo, all before Gaye begs to sg on top of the funky backbeat. Art Stewart's engeerg rounds off all the edg and mak Gaye's already sweet croong stment to the te gra the voice of sctive need.

"Feel All My Love Insi" and "I Want to Be Where You Are" are anthems to sensualy wh strgs creepg up unr Gaye's voice as the guars move through a seri of chunky chang and dms punctuate his every syllable. I Want You is as necsary as anythg Gaye ever rerd.

Updatg his highly percsive but strg-lan groove for the dis set, Gaye clearly vised 1976’s I Want You as a makeout album.

And the Ao-Caribbean ngas of “I Want You” and bossa nova lilt of “Sce I Had You” support a mix of rhythm and bety that ref to box self —punctuated by Gaye’s own murmurg, the sound flows like a sweet, sctive stream.