Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell - It Tak Two Midi File

Contents:

• MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL - IT TAK TWO MIDI
• IT TOOK TWO: MARV GAYE’S DUET LEGACY
• MOTOWN’S TRAGIC OMEN: TAMMI TERRELL COLLAPS INTO MARV GAYE’S ARMS
• MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL - IT TAK TWO ALBUM

MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL - IT TAK TWO MIDI

Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s h spir our Motown duets playlist. Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrelll photo: Gill Petard/Redferns. On the Billboard Hot 100 for September 9 1967, Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell had the hight new entry of the week, at No.

“What we acplished was to create two characters and let them sg to each other, ” Gaye later told wrer David Rz. Gaye practilly owned the duet format on Motown. Marv Gaye Lyrics.

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IT TOOK TWO: MARV GAYE’S DUET LEGACY

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MOTOWN’S TRAGIC OMEN: TAMMI TERRELL COLLAPS INTO MARV GAYE’S ARMS

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MARV GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL - IT TAK TWO ALBUM

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). IT TAKES TWO CHORDS by Marv Gaye and Kim Wton @. The story of Motown tryg to fd Marv Gaye a duet partner, which hovers the background of the new reissue “Marv Gaye & His Women, ” is one of the great melodramas of Amerin pop mic—vexed, tragic, ultimately triumphant, and wh a fillip of false optimism at the end.

When Gaye first started at Motown the early sixti, he wasn’t particularly terted the sound of Young Ameri. ” They also saw him, their grand visn, as a half of a powerhoe duet team; Berry Gordy’s md, duet albums doubled the potential ctomer 1964, the label paired Gaye wh Mary Wells, then the queen of Motown. While the rerd helped to tablish Gaye, the softer tone diluted Wells’s inty, and she left the label.

Motown moved Gaye along to Kim Wton; “It Tak Two” was a massive h but Wton, too, parted the label. Motown, now flailg a b, put Gaye wh a third sger, Oma Page (sometim misintified as Oma Heard): they rerd a few sis that went fourth time was the charm. In 1966, Gaye was paired wh Tammi Terrell, who had been a teen-age sger for Jam Brown.

Mdful of Gaye’s track rerd, they had both sgers rerd versns and then mixed them together.

The rult—phed along by Terrell’s crystal-clear vols and Gaye’s imable batn of softns and urgency—went top twenty, and they followed up wh songs like “Your Prec Love” and “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You. When Terrell died, 1970, Gaye was eply prsed by her loss, and he turned away om sgg and performg, only to emerge wh “What’s Gog On. ” Once Gaye was reëstablished as a solo star, the label took one more shot, pairg him wh Diana Ross for two albums.

“Marv Gaye & His Women” was origally released 1973; even then, was a substute for (and an update of) “Marv Gaye and His Girls, ” om 1969.

“It Tak Two” is a ebullient sgle that hts at what might have been had Wton stayed at Motown; and the Ross sis both build on the Terrell era and gture toward Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, who had replaced Gaye and Terrell as the domant duet act soul addn to llectg all of Gaye’s important duets, the album also serv as a remr of the way romantic duets were once central to pop. That’s the lson of the Gaye llectn and any other top-notch duet: two heads (or voic) are not necsarily better than one, but they are more tertg, and more rewardg, and more than the sum of their parts.

When Tammi fell on stage and llapsed to Marv Gaye’s arms on October 14, 1967, foretold of tragedy. Marv Gaye/Tammi Terrell - Photo: Courty of Echo/Redferns.

It happened when Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell were on tour Ameri celebratg the succs of their now-classic rerdg of Ashford & Simpson’s “A’t No Mounta High Enough. ” Gaye was climbg that chart at the same time wh his next solo h, “Your Changg Love.

Gaye and Terrell’s show at Hampn-Sydney College Virgia nfirmed all was far om well wh Tammi’s health.

Before the end of the year, Gaye and Terrell were the pop and soul charts aga, wh “Your Prec Love, ” which had been rerd back March.

Gaye, many ways, never revered, whdrawg om live performance and adoptg the trospectn that rmed his brilliant, reer-changg 1971 album What’s Gog On. Buy or stream some of Tammi Terrell’s bt work wh Marv Gaye on the Uned album.

Rock cric Dave Marsh wr his book The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatt Sgl Ever Ma that the lyrics "fli the face of rock mythology… Here, Marv Gaye, probably the greatt inoclast pop has ever known, speaks wh tenr re favor of the most timate llectivy. "Though Gaye had already racked up a number of hs the US, this was his first Top 40 h the the other duos to ver this tune were Otis Reddg and Carla Thomas, Donny and Marie Osmond, and Rod Stewart and Ta Turner.

Brilliant, enigmatic, and headstrong, Marv Gaye was an novator. He was born Marv Pentz Gay Jr.

Motown founr Berry Gordy enuraged Marv to sg R&B, and once Gaye sang the soulful (and tobgraphil) “Stubborn Kd Of Fellow” 1962, stardom enveloped him.

By 1968′s immortal “I Heard It Through The Grapeve, ” and on a seri of electrifyg duets wh Mary Wells, Kim Wton (“It Tak Two”), and his ultimate sgg partner, the ravishg but ill-fated Tammi Terrell (“A’t No Mounta High Enough, ” et al), Gaye was a mercial force. Sger Tammi Terrell joed forc wh the immortal Marv Gaye to create some of the greatt love songs ever to emerge om the Motown h factory; sadly, their seri of classic duets -- "A't No Mounta High Enough, " "A't Nothg Like the Real Thg, " and "You're All I Need to Get By" among them -- me to an abpt and tragic halt wh her premature ath. " When subsequent outgs "Come On and See Me, " "This Old Heart of Me (Is Weak for You), " and "Hold Me Oh My Darlg" earned ltle notice, she was paired wh Gaye, who prevly rerd duets wh Mary Wells and Kim Wton.

" The succs of the later hs was neverthels tempered by Terrell's off-stage travails -- after an extend perd of severe migrae headach, 1967 she llapsed Gaye's arms while ncert at Virgia's Hampton-Sydney College, and was diagnosed wh a bra tumor.

Although the tumor forced Terrell to retire om performg live, she ntued to rerd wh Gaye even as her health terrated; however, as time went on, Valerie Simpson herself assumed uncreded vol duti on a number of hs, cludg 1969's "Good Lov' A't Easy to Come By" and "What You Gave Me. " (For several other tracks, Gaye's vols were add to pre-existg Terrell solo rerdgs. Gaye was so vastated by her cle and eventual passg that he retired om the road for three years; her loss also ntributed greatly to the spirual turmoil which rmed his 1971 masterpiece What's Gog On.