LET'S GET IT ON
Personnel includes: Marvin Gaye (vocals, piano); Rene Hall, David Van DePitte (arranger,
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conductor); Melvin Wah Wah Ragin, Lewis Shelton, David T. Walker, Robert White, Eddie Willis (guitar); Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson (saxophone); Marvin Jenkins, Joe S...
LET'S GET IT ON
The Step Kings: Fern (vocals, guitar); Bob McLynn (vocals, bass); Mike Watt
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(drums).Recorded at The Machine Shop, Hoboken, New Jersey; Krusty's Funhouse, Yonkers, New York; Iiwii, Weehawken, New Jersey.[Reviews]Melody Maker (4/18/00, p.48) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - ...Essentially traditional NYC hardcore with decent production values and a heavier emphasis on the melodies....So check your brain at the door, put your bouncing shoes on and step to the beat of the next crossover kings.n
LET'S GET IT ON
Personnel includes: Marvin Gaye (vocals, piano); Rene Hall, David Van DePitte (arranger,
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conductor); Melvin Wah Wah Ragin, Lewis Shelton, David T. Walker, Robert White, Eddie Willis (guitar); Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson (saxophone); Marvin Jenkins, Joe Sample (piano); Emil Richards, Victor Feldman (vibraphone); Wilton Felder, James Jamerson (bass); Eddie Bongo Brown (drums, bongos); Paul Humphries, Uriel Jones (drums); Bobbye Hall Porter (bongos).Recorded at Hitsville, Detroit, Michigan and Hitsville-West, Los Angeles, California. Originally released on Tamla (329). Includes liner notes by Ben Edmonds.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Relishing the artistic freedom afforded by the success of WHAT'S GOING ON, Marvin Gaye recorded this sultry paean to sex. Where its predecessor relied on complex arrangements, the straightforward sound of LET'S GET IT ON focused attention on its tight rhythms, strong melodies and Gaye's expressive singing. Either celebratory, as on the explicit title track, or reflective (Distant Lover), he explores a range of emotions with equal ease and intensity. Seductive sound matches seductive lyrics and attitudes at a time when Al Green, Barry White and Isaac Hayes laid claim to the lover man sobriquet. LET'S GET IT ON showed Marvin Gaye to be its undoubted master.[Reviews]Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...A perfect seduction-groove record...Uncut (5/03, p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - ...His deliberations on the boundaries between love and sex are beautifully sung...n
Album Notes: Personnel includes: Marvin Gaye (vocals, piano); Rene Hall, David Van DePitte (arranger, conductor); Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin, Lewis Shelton, David T. Walker, Robert White, Eddie Willis (guitar); Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson (saxophone); Marvin Jenkins, Joe Sample (piano); Emil Richards, Victor Feldman (vibraphone); Wilton Felder, James Jamerson (bass); Eddie "Bongo" Brown (drums, bongos); Paul Humphries, Uriel Jones (drums); Bobbye Hall Porter (bongos).
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A perfect seduction-groove record...
Titles on disc 1
1.: Let's Get It On
2.: Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3.: If I Should Die Tonight
4.: Keep Getting It On
5.: Come Get To This
6.: Distant Lover
7.: You Sure Love To Ball
8.: Just To Keep You Satisfied
9.: Let's Get It On (single radio edit/bonus track)
10.: You Sure Love To Ball (single radio edit/bonus track)
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...After brilliantly surveying the social, political and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, MarvinGaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy. Always a sexually-charged performer, Gaye's passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a Number One smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball;" silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody. With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let's Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later — much copied, but never...
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...I only recently bought this album and was reminded that music used to be so much better. It has all the classics on - "What's going on?", "Let's get it on", etc, and also contains a lot of duets with the likes of Diana Ross, Kim Weston ("It takes two")etc. Marvin has an incredibly soft voice at times and at others he can blow just about anyone away. His sound isn't timeless and it would be true to say he lacks song writing genius, but who needs it with a voice like that. If you're going to buy a soul C.D, make it this one....
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...I only recently bought this album and was reminded that music used to be so much better. It has all the classics on - "What's going on?", "Let's get it on", etc, and also contains a lot of duets with the likes of Diana Ross, Kim Weston ("It takes two")etc. Marvin has an incredibly soft voice at times and at others he can blow just about anyone away. His sound isn't timeless and it would be true to say he lacks song writing genius, but who needs it with a voice like that. If you're going to buy a soul C.D, make it this one....
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