4 song for 1973. Gaye's separation from Gordy pressured him emotionally. “Let’s Get It On” is a deceptively simple declaration of sex-positivity, released at a time when such statements were revolutionary. The song was recorded on March 22, 1973, at Hitsville West in Los Angeles, California. [20] The album's third single, "You Sure Love to Ball", charted at number 50 on the Hot 100 and at number 13 on the Soul Singles chart. and not Marvin Gaye’s heirs and who famously last year won a $7.4M judgement against Robin Thicke and Pharell for jacking mega-hit, “Blurred Lines,” from Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up.” Without further ado, here are the two tracks. [10] While recording the title track, he was inspired to revive unfinished recordings from his 1970 sessions at the Hitsville U.S.A. 03:59. album in 1974. You and I are meant to be. His view of sex was unsettled, tormented, riddled with pain. [19] Successful concert performances of the album's material helped Gaye gain an increasing popularity and fan base in the pop market, while earning him a reputation as one of the top live performers of the time. [4] Gaye learned to cope with his personal issues with a newly found spirituality. 1. 1. In those songs of loss and lament—the sense of separation is heartbreaking. 03:10. The song was reprised on the fourth track of Let's Get It On as "Keep Gettin' It On", which was a sequel and continuation of the original. 7. It was released on August 28, 1973, by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla. [11] Although he viewed that it "lacks that album's series of highpoints", Landau commented that "it ebbs and flows, occasionally threatening to spend itself on an insufficiency of ideas, but always retrieved, just in time, by Gaye's performance. 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I think we make far too much of it. I know and you know what I've been dreaming of Don't you baby? [4], "Let's Get It On" became, and remains to this day, one of Gaye's as well Motown Records most successful singles, as it reached number 1 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart on September 8, 1973. [9], A bluegrass version of the song was later recorded by Shannon Lawson on his 2002 album Chase the Sun. "Let's Get It On" is a song and hit single by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released June 15, 1973, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Watch the video for Let's Get It On from Marvin Gaye's The Very Best of Marvin Gaye for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The fabulous Marvin Gaye singing a great version of his classic "Let's Get It On" in Montreux Jazz Festival. 4:37 PREVIEW 1 SONG, 5 MINUTES. It has a running time of 5:12. Noch keine Übersetzung vorhanden. "[18] The album's success helped spark a series of similarly styled releases by such smooth soul artists as Barry White (Can't Get Enough), Smokey Robinson (A Quiet Storm) and Earth, Wind & Fire (That's the Way of the World). 3. Serving as Gaye's first venture into the funk genre and romance-themed music, Let's Get It On incorporates smooth soul, doo-wop, and quiet storm. The song was recorded on March 22, 1973, at Hitsville West in Los Angeles, California. Play. [21] This commercial success also led to a much publicized tour for Gaye to promote Let's Get It On and expand on his repertoire as a live performer. [2] Following the release of his most commercially successful album up to that point, What's Going On (1971), and the soundtrack album to the blaxploitation film Trouble Man (1972), Gaye had struggled to come up with new material after Motown Records had renegotiated a new contract with him. Gaye also contributed on piano during the sessions. During the time of the recording of the song and its subsequent album of the same name, Marvin had befriended the family of jazz guitarist Slim Gaillard and had become smitten with Gaillard's seventeen-year-old daughter, Janis Hunter. [13] The song's lyrics chronicled the yearning its narrator feels for a lover who is "so many miles away", as he pleads for her return and laments the emptiness he feels without her. [31], Since its initial reception, Let's Get It On has been viewed by writers as a milestone in soul music. 19–20. 6. In addition, pop production techniques were simpler than that of Gaye's 1970s concept albums. [Verse] C Am7 F G7 We're all sensitive people, C Am7 F G7 With so much love to give; under-stand me, sugar. [9] Music writer Rob Bowman later cited Let's Get It On as "one of the most erotic recordings known to mankind. In the spring of 1972, Marvin Gaye was suffering from writer's block. Let's Get It On. It expands on the title track's sensual theme with political overtones: "won't you rather make love, children / as opposed to war, like you know you should. He began incorporating his new outlook into his music, as initially expressed through the socially conscious album What's Going On, along with promotional photos of him wearing a kufi in honor of African traditional religions and his faith.[2]. [7], "Let's Get It On" features soulful, passionate lead vocals and multi-tracked background singing, both by Gaye. The title track of Gaye's album Let's Get It On (1973), it was written by Marvin Gaye and producer Ed Townsend. Production, lead vocals, background vocals: Marvin Gaye, except where noted: This page was last edited on 14 May 2021, at 15:48. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. [1] They worked on four songs together, including the ballad "If I Should Die Tonight", while Gaye composed most of the other songs, including those from past sessions. The songs that were to be included on it, along with other unreleased recordings from Hitsville West and Golden World, were later featured on the 2001 re-release of Let's Get It On. If you want to keep bumping your gums and playing the f**king Disney channel sh**, then that’s on you. Hunter would become Gaye's live-in lover by 1974. Let’s Get It On – Wikipedia Let’s Get It On Let’s Get It On (englisch für Lass es uns tun) ist das zwölfte Musikalbum des US-amerikanischen Sängers Marvin Gaye, das am 28. That's the paradox of Marvin himself. [7] With re-recording the song, he had re-written the arrangement and lyrics to address the demise of his volatile marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye, who happened to be the original song's co-writer. [2] Gaye and Townsend then collaborated on new lyrics and using the original backing tracks as recorded, Gaye transformed the song into an emotional centerpiece. 02:41. With Amanda Jane Adams, Tom Byron, Mauvais De Noir, Gail Force. Co-written with producer Ed Townsend, "Let's Get It On" was Gaye's plea for sexual liberation. Let's get it on, let's get it on. [8] The single has gone on to sell over 1 million copies, and, on June 25, 2007, was certified platinum in sales by the RIAA. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. [1] Accompanied by an experienced group of session musicians called The Funk Brothers, who had contributed to Gaye's What's Going On, and received their first official credit, Gaye recorded the unreleased songs "The World is Rated X" and "Where Are We Going" and the single "You're the Man" (1972) at Golden World. "Let's Get It On" und seine Fortsetzung "Keet Gettin' It On", eingepackt in eine funky Soul-Bettdecke sowie das sehr offensichtliche "You Sure Love to Ball" mit dem Gestöhne von Fred und Madeline Ross am Anfang, in dem es um die schönste Sache der Welt geht. "[8] Gaye and Townsend rewrote the song's lyrics together with the original arrangements and musical accompaniment of the demo intact. [7], The album's first recording, "Let's Get It On", was composed by Gaye with friend and former Motown label mate Ed Townsend. Die sanfte Instrumentierung umschmeichelt Gayes wundervolle Stimme. Allmusic calls the album "the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later — much copied, but never imitated. Bewertung, Let's Get It on. Let's get it on Please, let's get it on. [19], Two of the album's singles reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including "Let's Get It On", which became Gaye's second number-one US single, and the top-30 hit "Come Get to This", which peaked at number 23 on the chart. Several contemporary R&B musicians, such as Prince, D'Angelo, and R. Kelly, were greatly influenced by its vintage sound and seductive themes, incorporating much of Gaye's musical style into their music. "Let's Get It On" is written and composed in the key of E-flat major[1] and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 169 beats per minute. Let's get it on, let's get it on. I think there was a big 'love-in' that was going on. In 2001, when the album Let's Get It On was reissued by Motown as a two-disc deluxe edition release, the original demo that Gaye had recorded with lyrics by Kenneth Stover was included. [12] Music journalist Jon Landau dubs the song "a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable". Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–8 on CD reissues. It topped the Billboard Pop Singles chart for two weeks and the Billboard Soul Singles chart for eight weeks. [5], In the album's liner notes, Gaye explained his views on the themes of sex and love, stating "I can't see anything wrong with sex between consenting anybodies. August 1973 von Tamla Motown herausgegeben wurde. Distant Lover. 4. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky. I think Let's Get It On was Marvin wanting to make commentary on what was happening. [10] "Let's Get It On" was given a remix in 2004, when producers mixed Gaye's vocals with a different musical production labeled as "stepper's music". It has been noted by critics for its sexually suggestive lyrics, and was cited by one writer as "one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded". Gaye had planned the release of an album titled You're the Man, but it was later shelved for unknown reasons. 10 SONGS • 39 MINUTES • AUG 28 1973. I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, darlin' Stop beatin' 'round the bush Oh, gonna get it on Threaten' you, baby I wanna get it on You don't have to worry that it's wrong If the spirit moves ya Let me groove ya good Let your love come down Oh, get it on C'mon, baby Do you know the meaning? https://www.discogs.com/de/Marvin-Gaye-Lets-Get-It-On/master/66602 Its sexual balladry, multi-tracking of Gaye's vocals, and seductive, funk sound influenced later R&B artists and production. Let's get it on, let's get it on. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, List of songs that have been the subject of plagiarism disputes, "Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On: Music Review". CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, List of number-one R&B albums of 1973 (U.S.), allmusic Let's Get It On (Deluxe Edition) - Overview, Billboard, CASHBOX & Record World №1 ALBUMS(1973年), Super Seventies: Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On, Allmusic Let's Get It On - Charts & Awards, "Gaye Is Still What's Goin' On Massive Motown Reissue Celebrates Singer's Lasting Legacy", "500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 165) Let's Get It On", Slant Magazine Music Review: Marvin Gaye: What's Going On, "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Music and coin machine magazine 1942 to 1996". It was released on August 28, 1973, by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla. "[21] Allmusic's Lindsay Planer cites it as a "hedonistic R&B masterpiece. [1] Following the earlier sessions in Detroit at Golden World, Gaye recorded at Hitsville West in Los Angeles from February to July 1973. "Let's Get It On" was the title track of Gaye's 1973 album. Let's Get It On has been ranked on many critics and publications' lists of the best albums of all time. Gaye and Hunter were said to be smitten with each other and, within months, Gaye and Hunter began dating. All I want now is you and me. For the song, see. 04:16. Let's Get It On. [14] The sexually-explicit and risqué nature of the album's content were, at the time, controversial, and the recording of such an album was deemed as a commercial risk by Motown A&R's (Artists and Repertoire) and label executives. When combined, they work well together, if two people are of about the same mind. And with him quoting T.S. [7], The song became the biggest selling Motown release in the United States at the time, selling over two-million copies within the first six weeks of following its release. Let's get it on You know what I'm talkin' about C'mon, baby, hey Let your love come out If you believe in love Let's get it on, ooh Let's get it on, baby This minute, oh yeah Let's get it on Please, please get it on, hey hey. [5], In August 2016 the family of Ed Townsend sued English musician Ed Sheeran over his song "Thinking Out Loud" saying "the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic compositions of 'Thinking' are substantially and/or strikingly similar to the drum composition of 'Let's Get It On'. All I want now is you and me. [2], During his childhood, Gaye had been physically abused by his preacher father Marvin Gay, Sr., who disciplined his son under extremely moralistic and fundamentalist Christian teachings. But they are really two discrete needs and should be treated as such. [2] It was originally written by Gaye as a religious ode to life, but Motown singer-songwriter Kenneth Stover re-wrote it as a more political first draft. [29] Gaye's change of musical style and production soon became contemporary and popular, prior to the disco era of the late 1970s. Auf Facebook teilen Facebook Songtext twittern Twitter Whatsapp. "You Sure Love to Ball", the album's most sexually overt song. Come Get To This. Wählen Sie Ihre Cookie-Einstellungen. I know and you know what I've been dreaming of Don't you baby? In 2004, the song was ranked number 167 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time;[11] in a revised 2012 list, the song was ranked at number 168. [1] "Where Are We Going" was later covered by trumpeter Donald Byrd. You and I are meant to be. "[11], "Distant Lover" has Gaye crooning over serene instrumentation, leading to soulful screams near the end; from a heartbroken croon to an impassioned wail. The album version of "Let's Get It On" features soulful and emotional singing by Gaye that is backed by multi-tracked background vocals, also provided by Gaye, along with the song's signature, and most notable, funky guitar arrangements. Let's get it on Please, please get it on, hey hey. During this time, he had also been attempting to cope with past issues that had stemmed from his childhood. The song features romantic and sexual lyricism and funk instrumentation by The Funk Brothers. E. 04:24 . [11] In Creem magazine, Robert Christgau called the record "post-Al Green What's Going On, which means it's about fucking rather than the human condition, thank the wholly holey". [2] Townsend has cited Hunter's presence during the album's recording as an inspiration for Gaye. Keep Gettin' It On. The song was covered by The Power Station on their 1996 album Living in Fear, with lead vocal by Robert Palmer. 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