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Charlie Puth (Ft. Meghan Trainor) – Marvin Gaye
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Charlie Puth uses ‘Marvin Gaye’ as a euphemism for sex in this song, featuring his friend Meghan Trainor.
While performing the track at the 2015 American Music Awards, the two
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Felt – Marvin Gaye
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[Verse 1: Murs] / Now my heart is a pure as Sanyika Shakur / Homegrown in the crips, a gangbangers galore / Set sail for many shores, still a product of war / Shell shocked from
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Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man
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After Isaac Hayes hit it big with his Oscar-winning “Theme from Shaft” in 1971, every soul singer worth his salt wanted to try his hand at producing a hit soundtrack for a “
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Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
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This song mourns the destruction of the environment in a modernized society. Oil catastrophies, radioactive waste, and overpopulation… we even Almost Lost Detroit.
In his
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Marvin Gaye – Yesterday
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This is Marvin Gaye’s take on the popular song, “Yesterday” by the Beatles. Despite “Yesterday” being the most covered song of all time, Paul McCartney himself named Marvin’s as
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Marvin Gaye – She Needs Me
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I love you / I love you / (Woah, I love you) / And I need you baby (And you need me too) / So no matter where your love goes / And though she doesn't care / (She knows I'm there
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Marvin Gaye – Joy
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Midnight Love is all about healing, rejuvenation and beginning life anew; “Joy” encapsulates these themes well. Marvin Gaye dedicated this song to his father, Marvin Gay Sr., who
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Marvin Gaye – Symphony
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[Verse 1] / Symphony / She's only known as symphony / Melody, yeah / Crept- crept into the soul of me / Symphony, yeah / She's sort of like a song, she moves along / In perfect
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Marvin Gaye – Sad Tomorrows
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“Sad Tomorrows” is the demo version of the classic song “Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)”, from the What’s Going On album. It was released as the b-side of “Mercy Mercy Me (The
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Marvin Gaye – More
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More / Than the greatest love / The whole wide world has known / Darling, this is the love I'm gonna give you / To you, you alone / Well, More / Than the simple words / The little
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Marvin Gaye – Wholy Holy
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Wholly holy / Come together / Wholly holy / People, we all got to come together / 'Cause we need the strength, power and all the feeling / Wholly holy (Oh Lord) / Get together, one
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Marvin Gaye – Chained
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[Verse 1] / Seems just yesterday you were in my arms / And in a special way you touched my heart with all your charms / And now you're gone / Oh and I find myself, honey, I'm all
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Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
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Released in 1982, “Sexual Healing” is one of Marvin Gaye’s most popular songs, and his last to reach the top 20 in the US, UK and Australia. It won the Grammy Award for Best Male R
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Marvin Gaye – Right On
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Marvin Gaye was many things. A chronicler of the times, a believer, a sexual healer and a superstar musician but, above all else, he was a man who aimed to touch the souls of
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Marvin Gaye – Dream Of A Lifetime
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[Intro] / La da da da / La la la rhum / La da da daaa / La da da / La da da da / La da da da / Baby, baby / [Verse] / I have tasted success / I've been in love more or less / With
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Erick Sermon – Music (feat. Marvin Gaye)
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Just like music.. / Uh-huh, aiyyo yo, uh-huh yeah yeah, uh uh uh / There's no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, uh / Worrdd up.. / Ahhh babyyy.. / Just like music.. / To relax my mind, so
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Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston – It Takes Two
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[Verse 1] / [Her:] One can have a dream, baby / [Him:] Two can make that dream so real / [Her:] One can talk about being in love / [Him:] Two can say how it really feels / [Her
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Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston – It Takes Two
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[Verse 1] / [Her:] One can have a dream, baby / [Him:] Two can make that dream so real / [Her:] One can talk about being in love / [Him:] Two can say how it really feels / [Her
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Marvin Gaye – Midnight Lady
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Marvin Gaye and his brother-in-law and longtime collaborator Gordon Banks produced this look into the nightlife from Marvin’s perspective.
In an interview with David Ritz, Mr
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Marvin Gaye – My Last Chance
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“My Last Chance” is a song Marvin Gaye worked on between 1970 and 1972, with the basic tracks recorded in Detroit and overdubs added in Los Angeles. However, it remained unreleased
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Marvin Gaye – Pride and Joy
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“Pride and Joy” is a 1963 single by Marvin Gaye, his first to reach the Top 10.
It’s the last song to feature Martha and the Vandellas as backup singers before they made it big in
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Marvin Gaye – Distant Lover
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“Distant Lover” is the sixth song issued on singer Marvin Gaye’s 1973 album, Let’s Get It On and the b-side of the second single from that album, “Come Get to This.”
A live
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Kenyon Dixon – Marvin Gaye
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[Verse 1] / You in a rush, for what? Ain't gotta hurry up / Let's have the time of our lives / Haven't you heard when we, get to it carefully / We'll be in for a suprise? / Let's
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Marvin Gaye – Why Did I Choose You?
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[Verse 1] / Why did I choose you? / What did I see in you? / I saw a heart you hide so well / I saw a quiet girl, who had a gentle way / Cute little way that caught me in its
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Marvin Gaye – Come Get to This
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“Come Get to This” is the first track on the second side of Let’s Get it On, Marvin Gaye’s landmark album about sexual freedom and – until this point in his career – suppressed
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Marvin Gaye – Come Live with Me Angel
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“Come Live With Me, Angel” is all about two lovers living in total isolation together. Seclusion was the name of the game when Marvin recorded the track, having recently bought a
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Marvin Gaye – Sparrow
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“Sparrow” is Marvin Gaye’s mid-album respite from the woes of his devastating divorce from Anna Gordy. In Sparrow, Gaye reflects on a divine symbol, a bird that represents his
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Marvin Gaye – Heavy Love Affair
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As often was the case in his music and in his life, Marvin Gaye bounces from one extreme to the other. “Heavy Love Affair” follows In Our Lifetime?’s theme of polarity, this time
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother
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The second song on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On tells a story of a soldier coming back to the United States after fighting in Vietnam, and the adjustments to culture that he has
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Marvin Gaye – Turn on Some Music
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“Turn On Some Music” is the fifth track on Marvin Gaye’s seventeenth and final studio album Midnight Love.
According to songwriter David Ritz, “the original version of "Turn On
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Marvin Gaye – Ain't That Peculiar
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[Verse 1] / Honey, you do me wrong but still I'm crazy about you / Stay away too long and I can't do without you / Every chance you get, you seem to hurt me more and more / But
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Marvin Gaye – Feel All My Love Inside
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“Feel All My Love Inside” is yet another sensual song dedicated to Marvin Gaye’s mistress and muse, Janis Hunter.
The track begins with a quite blazed Marvin asking for another
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Marvin Gaye – Hitch Hike
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I'm going to Chicago / That's the last place my baby stayed (Hitch hike) / Yeah, hitch hike (Hitch hike, baby) / I'm packin' my bags / Gonna leave this old town right away (Hitch
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Marvin Gaye – Save the Children
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[Verse 1] / I just want to ask a question: / Who really cares, to save a world in despair? / Who really cares? (Ohhh) / There'll come a time (There'll come a time) / When the world
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Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear
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The ultimate divorce record, Marvin Gaye recorded Here, My Dear as part of his alimony obligations to Anna Gordy. He initially intended to record a crap album, but his intense
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Marvin Gaye – Just to Keep You Satisfied
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‘Just to Keep You Satisfied’ was first released in 1973 as the B-side to ‘You Sure Love to Ball’. It was featured on Marvin’s 1973 album Let’s Get It On.
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Marvin Gaye – God Is Love
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Track 5 on What’s Going On, an album which on July 22, 2013, was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments of 300,000 albums.
In this song, Marvin
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Marvin Gaye – Is That Enough
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Here, My Dear segues from “Anger”, a song detailing the physical and spiritual anguish that comes hand in hand with the life and trials of Marvin Gaye, into a question he poses to
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Marvin Gaye – I'll Be Doggone
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[Verse 1] / Well, I'd be doggone if I wouldn't work all day / And I'd be doggone if I wouldn't bring you my pay / But if I ever caught you running around / Blowing my money all
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Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Your Precious Love
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[Intro: Marvin Gaye] / Oooh, oooh, oooh / [Verse 1: Marvin Gaye] / Every day, there's something new (Ooh, ooh, ooh, baby) / Honey, to keep me loving you (Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey
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Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye – You Are Everything
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[Intro: Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross] / Oh, darling / I want to be your everything to you / You are everything / Ooh, ooh, you are everything / [Verse 1: Diana Ross] / Today I saw
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Marvin Gaye – Keep Gettin' It On
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Recorded as a continuation of the same musical bed as “Let’s Get it On”, this song sees Marvin transition into a message of spreading love and peace throughout a troubled, divided
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