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Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 11, 2023 · Comments off

From the wah-wah guitar that opens the title track to the operatic closer “Just to Keep You Satisfied,” Marvin Gaye’s 1973 album “Let’s Get It On” expressed the joy — and complexity — of human sexuality like virtually none in popular music before it. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its release, Motown/ UMe is holding an event Wednesday featuring fellow R&B luminaries Smokey Robinson and Jimmy Jam, Gaye biographer David Ritz and moderated by UMe A&R vice president Harry Weinger, in advance of a new deluxe edition of the album. The retrospective set, due out digitally Friday (and on red vinyl in October), features 20 alternate, previously unreleased tracks from the legendary recording sessions.

This isn’t the first expanded edition of the classic album, but the team behind it feels like it deserved a fresh look into what the archives held. Weinger, who produced the original “Let’s Get It On: Deluxe Edition” back in 2001, tells Variety that more than just the occasion of its 50th birthday prompted him to revisit the album. “Frankly, I never liked the mixes that I did on the deluxe version back in the day,” he says. “I don’t think I did anything ‘wrong’… but there were quite a few of the tracks from the various sessions that I had picked at that I didn’t use that were completely valid as their own releases.”

As Weinger returned to “Let’s Get It On,” he began to uncover more material from the Motown archives. With advice from experts like Ritz and Dr. Andy Flory, author of the Motown book “I Hear a Symphony,” he discovered that a focus on the first six months of 1973, when Gaye had moved to Los Angeles, supported more specific musical endeavors than he’d previously realized

Tracklist:
1-1. Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (04:53)
1-2. Marvin Gaye – Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away) (Album Version) (03:31)
1-3. Marvin Gaye – If I Should Die Tonight (Unedited Version) (04:01)
1-4. Marvin Gaye – Keep Gettin’ It On (03:10)
1-5. Marvin Gaye – Come Get To This (02:41)
1-6. Marvin Gaye – Distant Lover (04:16)
1-7. Marvin Gaye – You Sure Love To Ball (04:44)
1-8. Marvin Gaye – Just To Keep You Satisfied (Album Version) (04:25)
2-1. Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (Single Version) (04:05)
2-2. Marvin Gaye – You Sure Love To Ball (Single Version) (03:34)
2-3. Marvin Gaye – If I Should Die Tonight (03:06)
3-1. Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (Demo) (05:14)
3-2. Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (Pt. II) (03:23)
3-3. Marvin Gaye – I Knew One Day My Day Would Come (Instrumental) (03:06)
3-4. Marvin Gaye – Interlude #1 (00:56)
3-5. Marvin Gaye – Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away) (Alternate Mix 1) (03:58)
3-6. Marvin Gaye – Lovely Lady (Instrumental) (03:07)
3-7. Marvin Gaye – If I Should Die Tonight (Demo) (04:14)
3-8. Marvin Gaye – I Don’t Have To Get High To Do It (Instrumental) (03:37)
3-9. Marvin Gaye – Come Get To This (Alternate Mix 1) (03:06)
3-10. Marvin Gaye – Distant Lover (Alternate Mix 1) (04:45)
3-11. Marvin Gaye – You Sure Love To Ball (Alternate Mix 1 W/ Alternate Vocal) (05:11)
3-12. Marvin Gaye – Just To Keep You Satisfied (A Cappella W/ Alternative Vocal) (04:39)
3-13. Marvin Gaye – Interlude #2 (00:34)
3-14. Marvin Gaye – If I Should Die Tonight (SaLaAm ReMi’s Piano Mix) (04:01)
3-15. Marvin Gaye – Just To Keep You Satisfied (John Morales’s Stripped Mix) (04:35)
4-1. Marvin Gaye – Song #1 (Instrumental) (04:19)
4-2. Marvin Gaye – Song #2 (Instrumental) (05:34)
4-3. Marvin Gaye – Song #3 (Instrumental) (05:27)
4-4. Marvin Gaye – Song #4 (Instrumental / Partial Vocal) (05:24)
4-5. Marvin Gaye – Shake Well (Instrumental) (04:36)
4-6. Marvin Gaye – Perfection (Instrumental) (05:30)
4-7. Marvin Gaye – Cakes (Instrumental) (03:29)
4-8. Marvin Gaye – My Love Is Growing (04:27)
5-1. Marvin Gaye – She Needs Me (1973 Version) (03:32)
5-2. Marvin Gaye – Why Did I Choose You (1973 Version) (02:38)
5-3. Marvin Gaye – Funny, Not Much (1973 Version) (02:46)
5-4. Marvin Gaye – This Will Make You Laugh (1973 Version) (02:54)
5-5. Marvin Gaye – The Shadow Of Your Smile (1973 Version) (03:08)
5-6. Marvin Gaye – I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (1973 Version) (02:41)
5-7. Marvin Gaye – I Won’t Cry Anymore (1973 Version) (02:59)