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• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

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After brilliantly surveyg the social, polil, and spirual landspe wh What's Gog On, Marv Gaye turned to more timate matters wh Let's Get It On, a rerd unparalleled s sheer sensualy and rnal energy. Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passns reach their boilg pot on tracks like the magnificent tle h (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmerg, the mic is sctive the most leral sense, s fluid groov so perfectly signed for romance as to borr on parody. The album is Marv Gaye's follow-up to the groundbreakg social statement he ma on What's Gog On, which n also be thoroughly examed on the likewise expand What's Gog On [Deluxe Edn].

The laid-back strgs on "Cak, " "Symphony, " and "Song #3" observe a new si of Gaye's talents that rivals the lik of Barry Whe terms of swgg soul arrangements. Acpanyg the two discs -- which are hoed a rdboard digipack -- is a 24-page booklet replete wh prevly unpublished photos as well as says om Gaye bgraphers David Rz, Ben Edmunds, and Harry Weger, producer and annotator of Let's Get It On [Deluxe Edn]. Marv Gaye, Soul, 70s.

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Love marv gaye i had to have this & add to my Collectn.

Let's get on Album and I want You are classic Marv Gaye Smooth groove rerds of the mid 70s. The first Gaye pure d release, What's Gog On, was a b of a disappotment to me. The bt soundg track for me was Distant Lover, givg somethg close to the "right there the room" of my iends who was there said when he returned om reloadg his drk, "I'm not a Marv Gaye fan, (no he was Led Zeppel, Deep Purple) but his goln voice, and the texture of the acpanyg mic is so tasty, I would have no problem listeng to this multiple tim.

I'm a big fan of Marv Gaye - om his early days at Motown th his Sexual Healg days. Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 6, 2022Marv Gaye was a top sger. OverviewAliasTagsReviewsDetailsEdAlbumReleaseArtistFormatTracksCountry/DateLabelCatalog#BarOfficialLet’s Get It OnMarv Gaye12" Vyl8US1973-08-28TamlaT329V1, T 329V1[none]Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeCD8-1992-07-06Motown31453-0055-2731453005525Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeCD8XE1994Motown530 055-2731453005525Let’s Get It On (remastered)Marv GayeCD8US1998-04-07Motown314530885-2731453088528Let's Get It OnMarv GayeCD14XE1998Pegas (UK budget label till 2008 (later release Pegas Entertament))PEG CD 1205034504212022Let's Get It On (luxe edn)Marv Gaye2×CD17 + 20US2001-09-18Motown440 014 757-2044001475726Let’s Get It On (luxe edn)Marv Gaye2×CD17 + 20GB2001-10-01Motown044001475726044001475726Let's Get It OnMarv GayeCD10XE2002Motown064 021-2044006402123Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeCD10US2002Chronicl (a label unr UMG’s Universal Mic Enterpris divisn), Motown440 064 021-2044006402123Let's Get It OnMarv GayeHybrid SACD (CD layer) + Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels) + Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, multichannel)8 + 8 + 8US2002Motown, TamlaB0000935-36602498605943Let's Get It OnMarv GayeCD10US2003-01-14Motown064 021044006402123Let's Get It OnMarv GayeDVD-Aud17US2004-02-24Chronicl (a label unr UMG’s Universal Mic Enterpris divisn), Motown, TamlaB0001922-19602498616604Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeDigal Media10AF2007-12-03AL2007-12-03(show 218 more)ZW2007-12-03Universal Motown (for Motown releas between 2005–2011 only)00044006402123Let’s Get It OnMarv GayeHybrid SACD (CD layer) + Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)8 + 8US2008Mobile Fily Sound Lab, TamlaUDSACD 2039821797203968Let’s Get It OnMarv Gaye12" Vyl8US2008Mobile Fily Sound LabMFSL 1-315Let’s Get It OnMarv Gaye2×SHM-CD17 + 20JP2009-04-29TamlaT6-329S1, UICY-94039/404988005554925Let’s Get It On (rari edn)Marv GayeCD20US2010-11-02Motown, Tamla, UMe (imprt of Universal Mic Enterpris)B0014609-02602527458403Let’s Get It On (24-b 192 kHz)Marv GayeDigal Media8XW2014Chronicl (a label unr UMG’s Universal Mic Enterpris divisn), Motown, Tamla(unknown)Let’s Get It OnMarv Gaye12" Vyl8DE1973EMI Electrola GmbH (not for release label e!

Marv Gaye’s ’70s ncept albums spanned wound tak on socpolil ncerns (What’s Gog On), the llapse of his own first marriage (Here, My Dear), and the ep heat of sex and romance celebrated on Let’s Get It On. Gaye, of urse, ma sctn the rerd’s center, but hardly s only subject.

Even the tle track, ed endlsly by media as a cue for unbridled sexs, has s philosophil bent (“Sce we got to be here, let’s live”) and a blurred le between love for a woman and the “sanctified” feel of the church Gaye was raised . Let's Get It On is the thirteenth stud album by Amerin soul sger, songwrer, and producer Marv Gaye. Servg as Gaye's first venture to the funk genre, Let's Get It On also rporat smooth soul and doo-wop styl alongsi sexually suggtive lyrics, leadg to one wrer's scriptn of as "one of the most sexually charged albums ever rerd".

Gaye fed ias of spirual healg songs about sex and romance, part as a way of pg wh childhood ab om his father Marv Gay Sr., which had stunted his sexualy. Followg the breakthrough succs of his socially nsc album What's Gog On (1971), Let's Get It On helped tablish Gaye as a sex in and broaned his mastream appeal. Let's Get It On beme the most mercially succsful album of Gaye's reer at Motown, rultg more creative ntrol beg given to him by the label.

Its erotic balladry, multi-trackg of Gaye's vols, and sctive funk sound also fluenced later R&B rerdg artists and producers, wh the tle track specifilly helpg pneer the slow jam and quiet storm retrospect, Let's Get It On has been regard by wrers and mic crics as a landmark rerdg soul. It creased the populary of funk durg the 1970s, while Gaye's smooth-soul sound marked a change om his rerd label's prev succs wh the "Motown Sound" formula. Certa artists have that liberty and I would thk Marv Gaye would be one of them at this pot.

One day 1970, Marv Gaye was like:. Let’s Get It On - Marv Gaye.