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Marvin Gaye - Collected

Music On Vinyl proudly presents a special edition of the Marvin Gaye Collected album. This deluxe edition is released in celebration of what would have been Marvin Gaye's 80th birthday on April 2nd, 2019. The world lost one of the most important soul singers ever to grace the world on 1st April 1984. He has left behind a series of fantastic hits plus a handful of tracks which deserve the title of masterpiece, all Collected on this album.

Motown Records released the first Marvin Gaye record in 1961 "(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over", a single intended for (radio) promotion from the singer's debut album. This was followed up by the officially released "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" a week later. Gaye scored his first real hit with "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" in 1962, which he had co-written himself, joking about his alleged stubbornness. He found his own unique style with the single released at the end of the year: "Hitch Hike". The foundations were now laid for an enormous series of chart successes: "Pride And Joy", "Can I Get A Witness", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "Ain't That Peculiar" are all Motown classics from 1963-1965 which are still being regularly played today after all these years. The duets he recorded with Kim Weston ("It Takes Two") and especially Tammi Terrell were certainly at least as good.

He scored his biggest ever hit with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" in 1968. "What's Going On" from the same-titled album became a number 1 hit in the USA and the album was received as a masterpiece everywhere and is now regarded as one of the most important records in pop history. In 1973, the artistically and commercially very successful, "Let's Get It On" album was mainly a musical ode to Marvin's love for his new muse Janis Hunter. The success enjoyed by "Sexual Healing" and the album which was released at the end of 1982, traveled with him. Suddenly Gaye, who had started to increasingly be forgotten about, was a celebrated star again and this was certainly a position the singer reveled in.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
Hitch Hike
Pride & Joy
Can I Get A Witness
Once Upon A Time
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Side B
It Takes Two
I'll Be Doggone
Ain't That Peculiar
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
You're All I Need To Get By
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

Side C
What's Going On
Mercy Mercy Me
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Trouble Man
Let's Get It On
You Are My Everything

Side D
Distant Lover
I Want You
Got To Give It Up
Heavy Love Affair
Sexual Healing
Sanctified Lady

PRODUCT DETAILS

Artist:  Marvin Gaye
Label:  Music On Vinyl
Condition:  New 
Genre:  Funk, Soul & Disco
Format:  Vinyl LP
Cat Number:  MOVLP1818
Released:  29th March 2019

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Regular price £38.00
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