The Marvin Gaye Collection Marvin Gaye

• 1 Ain't That Peculiar 03:03
• 2 It Takes Two 03:00
• 3 Ain't No Mountain High Enough 02:30
• 4 Your Precious Love 03:05
• 5 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing 02:18
• 6 I Heard It Through The Grapevine 03:17
• 7 What's Going On 03:55
• 8 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 03:16
• 9 Trouble Man 03:52
• 10 Let's Get It On 04:54
• 11 Distant Lover 04:15
• Total Runtime 37:25

Info for The Marvin Gaye Collection

If James Brown is indeed the Godfather of Soul, then Marvin Gaye is surely soul music's counterpart to Ol' Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. (Gaye in fact began his career singing Sinatra/Nat Cole-type standards.) Like Sinatra, Gaye could inhabit a song, make it his own, and transform ballads into preludes to seduction ('Your Precious Love,' 'Let's Get It On'). Unlike Sinatra, Gaye wrote many (very fine, classic R&B) songs and could get very funky ('Trouble Man').

The Marvin Gaye Collection is a nice primer to Gaye's biggest hits (including some duets with Tammi Terrell), and is sure to make you crave more.

Marvin Gaye, vocals, drums
Dennis Coffey, guitar
Eddie Willis, guitar
Robert White, guitar
Melvin 'Wah Wah' Raging, guitar
Joe Messina, guitar
Larry Nozero, saxophone
Teddy Buckner, saxophone
Marcus Belgrave, trumpet
Bob Babbitt, bass
James Jamerson, bass
Andrew Smith, drums
Benny Benjamin, drums
Richard 'Pistol' Allen, drums
Uriel Jones, drums
Eddie 'Bongo' Brown, percussion
Jack Ashford, percussion

Produced by Smokey Robinson, Micky Stevenson, Henry Cosby, Harvey Fuqua, Marvin Gaye

Digitally remastered

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