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• MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL
• MARV GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL: ALL YOU NEED FOR A PERFECT PAIRG
• MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL

MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL

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).

Aid by some excellent songs and productns by Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell set a high bar for duets that will be hard to surpass. Rememberg when Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell ma betiful mic and topped the R&B chart for Augt 31, 1968 wh ‘You’re All I Need To Get By. Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell 'You’re All I Need To Get By' artwork - Courty: UMG.

MARV GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL: ALL YOU NEED FOR A PERFECT PAIRG

Marv Gaye was on fire 1968. Gaye had three Billboard Soul No. Gaye’s brace of 1965 chart-toppers, “I’ll Be Doggone” and “A’t That Peculiar, ” were prime exampl of his ebullient early rerdg style, but by 1968 he was creatg smoother, more sophistited soul that would pave the way for his fg work of the early 70s.

MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL

On the R&B chart for the week of Augt 31, 1968, Gaye & Terrell’s new Ashford & Simpson creatn “You’re All I Need To Get By” started a five-week n at No. Another ten weeks on, before Christmas 1968, Gaye would be at the chart summ aga wh “I Heard It Through The Grapeve.

Listen to the bt of Marv Gaye on Apple Mic and Spotify. Then me a flurry of knockout duets wh Marv Gaye ("A't No Mounta High Enough, " "You're All I Need to Get By, " and other smart love songs penned by the Ashford & Simpson team). A pop stylist fdg her way the big cy, Terrell seemed poised to bee the next Motown phenomenon when she llapsed Gaye's arms onstage.

Uned was the first of Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell's three LPs, and que possibly the bt of the lot. You won't fd two better ballads than "Give a Ltle Love" or the often-rerd "If This World Were Me"; wrten by Marv Gaye, the starry-eyed proclamatn has bee an R&B standard, and rightfully so.