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Album

Let's Get It On (Deluxe Edition)

A release by Marvin Gaye, as collectible cards in HitMasters.

Artist
Marvin Gaye
Year
2023
Tracks
34
Length
2 hr 36 min

Let's Get It On is the twelfth studio album by the American soul singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye. It was released on August 28, 1973, by the Motown subsidiary label Tamla Records on LP. Recording sessions for the album took place during June 1970 to July 1973 at Hitsville U.S.A. and Golden World Studio in Detroit, and at Hitsville West in Los Angeles. Serving as Gaye's first venture into the funk genre, Let's Get It On also incorporates smooth soul and doo-wop styles alongside sexually suggestive lyrics, leading to one writer's description of it as "one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded". Gaye infused ideas of spiritual healing in songs about sex and romance, in part as a way of coping with childhood abuses from his father Marvin Gay Sr., which had stunted his sexuality. Following the breakthrough success of his socially conscious album What's Going On, Let's Get It On helped establish Gaye as a sex icon and broadened his mainstream appeal. It produced three singles—the title track, "Come Get to This", and "You Sure Love to Ball"—that achieved Billboard chart success.

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Tracks

  1. 2Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away)3:28B-Side
  2. 4Keep Gettin' It On3:14B-Side
  3. 7You Sure Love To Ball4:46Gold Record
  4. 9Let's Get It On (Single Version)4:06Demo
  5. 12Let's Get It On (Demo)5:15Demo
  6. 13Let's Get It On (Pt. II)3:24Demo
  7. 14I Knew One Day My Day Would Come (Instrumental)3:07Demo
  8. 15Interlude #10:57Demo
  9. 16Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away) (Alternate Mix 1)3:59Demo
  10. 17Lovely Lady (Instrumental)3:08Demo
  11. 18If I Should Die Tonight (Demo)4:15Demo
  12. 19I Don’t Have To Get High To Do It (Instrumental)3:38Demo
  13. 20Come Get To This (Alternate Mix 1)3:07Demo
  14. 21Distant Lover (Alternate Mix 1)4:46Demo
  15. 22You Sure Love To Ball (Alternate Mix 1 W/ Alternate Vocal)5:12Demo
  16. 23Just To Keep You Satisfied (A Cappella W/ Alternative Vocal)4:40Demo
  17. 24Interlude #20:35Demo
  18. 25If I Should Die Tonight (SaLaAm ReMi's Piano Mix)4:02Demo
  19. 26Just To Keep You Satisfied (John Morales's Stripped Mix)4:36Demo
  20. 27Song #1 (Instrumental)4:20Demo
  21. 28Song #2 (Instrumental)5:35Demo
  22. 29Song #3 (Instrumental)5:28Demo
  23. 30Song #4 (Instrumental / Partial Vocal)5:25Demo
  24. 31Shake Well (Instrumental)4:37Demo
  25. 32Perfection (Instrumental)5:31Demo
  26. 33Cakes (Instrumental)3:30Demo
  27. 34My Love Is Growing4:28Demo
  28. 35She Needs Me (1973 Version)3:33Demo
  29. 36Why Did I Choose You (1973 Version)2:39Demo
  30. 37Funny, Not Much (1973 Version)2:47Demo
  31. 38This Will Make You Laugh (1973 Version)2:55Demo
  32. 39The Shadow Of Your Smile (1973 Version)3:09Demo
  33. 40I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (1973 Version)2:42Demo
  34. 41I Won't Cry Anymore (1973 Version)3:00Demo

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