Marvin Gaye - Every Great Motown Hit Of Marvin Gaye (Reissue)

Description

American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, four live albums, one soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums, and 83 singles. In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown. The first release under the label was The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye. Gaye's first album to chart was a duet album with Mary Wells titled Together, peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard pop album chart. His 1965 album, Moods of Marvin Gaye, became his first album to reach the top ten of the R&B album charts and spawned four hit singles. Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown". Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, M.P.G., became his first number one R&B album. Gaye's landmark album, 1971's What's Going On became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track. His 1973 single, "Let's Get It On", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date. In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued Midnight Love, which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing". Following his death in 1984, three albums were released posthumously while some of Gaye's landmark works were re-issued.

Gaye recorded sixty seven charted singles on the Billboard charts, with forty-one reaching the top forty, eighteen reaching the top ten and three peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Sixty of his singles reached the top forty of the R&B charts, with thirty-eight of those reaching the top ten and thirteen peaking at number one. Gaye also had success in international charts, his biggest success in sales and chart positions peaking in the UK while achieving modest success in other countries.

Release info

Label: Motown B0031497-01
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 2020
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul

Tracklist

A1 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
A2 Your Precious Love
A3 If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
A4 That's The Way Love Is
A5 You're All I Need To Get By
A6 I Heard It Through The Grapevine
A7 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
A8 What's Going On
B1 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
B2 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
B3 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
B4 Trouble Man
B5 Let's Get It On
B6 Distant Lover
B7 Got To Give It Up (Part 1)