Marvin Gaye Vinyl Records

Marvin Gaye's soul baring concept album about the pitfalls of love and divorce was originally released in 1976 on the Motown subsidiary Tamla Records. As a condition of his divorce from then-wife Anna Gordy, Gaye was ordered to forfeit a percentage of his album royalties. Accordingly, Gaye exorcised his frustrations with his next release, a sign of the times confessional in which he unabashedly wears his pain and suffering on his sleeve, right down to the album's cover art. Double 180 gram high quality pressing housed in gatefold sleeve.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Here, My Dear
2. I Met a Little Girl
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
4. Anger
5. Is That Enough
6. Everybody Needs Love
7. Time To Get It Together

LP2
1. Sparrow
2. Anna's Song
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Instrumental)
4. A Funky Space Reincarnation
5. You Can Leave, But It's Going To Cost You
6. Falling In Love Again
7. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)

Originally the record was released as In the Groove. During the recording of what would become Gaye's biggest-selling and signature single of his career, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", there was a lot of arguing going on between Norman Whitfield and Gaye over the sessions of "Grapevine". In the end Whitfield was able to get what he wanted from Gaye, and the duo started a collaboration that lasted into the beginning of 1970.

When the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became one of the biggest hits of 1968, Motown re-released the LP as I Heard It Through the Grapevine

The album and its title track are both considered as Gaye's commercial breakthrough.

Track Listing:
1. You
2. Tear It On Down
3. Chained
4. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
5. At Last (I Found A Love)
6. Some Kind Of Wonderful
7. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
8. Change What You Can
9. It's Love I Need
10. Every Now And Then
11. You're What's Happening (In The World Today)
12. There Goes My Baby

"I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky." - Marvin Gaye

Lets Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gayes tenure with Motown.

The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single Let's Get It On was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Lets Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, Lets Get It On, Come Get To This and You Sure Love To Ball.

Track Listing:
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin' It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied

"I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky." - Marvin Gaye

Lets Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gayes tenure with Motown.

The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single Let's Get It On was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Lets Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, Lets Get It On, Come Get To This and You Sure Love To Ball.

Track Listing:
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin' It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied

"I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky." - Marvin Gaye

Lets Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gayes tenure with Motown.

The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single Let's Get It On was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Lets Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, Lets Get It On, Come Get To This and You Sure Love To Ball.

Track Listing:
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin' It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied

Side B
1. Medley: Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing / Your Precious Love / Love Twins / If This World Were Mine / If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
2. Rockin’ After Midnight
3. Sexual Healing

A creative genius and trained multi-instrumentalist, Gaye played every instrument on the song himself, except for the guitar. We can only guess what gems Gaye would have produced in his later years, as his life was taken by his own father just 18 months later.

Track Listing:
1. Midnight Lady
2. Sexual Healing
3. Rockin’ After Midnight
4. ‘Til Tomorrow
5. Turn On Some Music
6. Third World Girl
7. Joy
8. My Love Is Waiting

On the album "United" the photogenic duo offer three hits with "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough", "If I Could Build My World Around You" and "Your Precious Love", which catapulted the album towards the top of the pop charts. And that’s exactly where it belongs, since the tremendously popular but schmaltzy duet "Somethin’ Stupid" crept into the line-up of the otherwise groovy soul numbers. But no matter! This evergreen from the 60s is just as popular nowadays as it was then, whether performed by Frank Sinatra or Robbie Williams.

Musicians:

• Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell (vocal)

Production: H. Fuqua and J. Bristol

About Speakers Corner

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Speakers Corner all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existant tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasise that Speakers Corner Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We have one digital recording in our catalogue (Alan Parsons / Eye In The Sky“), but even in this particular case we used the analogue tapes for cutting.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects – excluding the exception above – and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

Marvin Gayes Whats Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out and, in 2003, it was ranked number 6, the highest for a non-rock album, in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. What's Going On became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.

What's Going On, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.

Marvin Gayes Whats Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. What's Going On became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.

What's Going On, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.

This 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition includes on two CDs a remastered version of the album plus 28 bonus tracks - 16 unreleased! - plus a vinyl LP.

Leading off this lovingly produced, double-gatefold 12×12 package is a newly remastered version of the original album, which delivers a deeper, warmer sound than in previous reissues. Added to the album on Disc 1 are several outtakes from sessions that led up to the recording of the LPthe original mix of the title song Marvin presented to Motowns legendary Quality Control meeting, where it was summarily rejected; and song demos which show Marvin wrestling with the rejectionas well as the albums three mono single releases, each of which reached No. 1 R&B and Top 10 pop: Whats Going On (in a very different mix than the LP), Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) and Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), plus their B-sides, of which two are alternate takes from the familiar LP versions.

Disc 2 of Whats Going On Ultimate Collector's Edition is a document of the albums aftermath, when Marvin Gaye, reluctant to tour and shy about becoming the spokesman of his generation, holed up in Motowns Studio B in Detroit with like-minded musiciansamong them the young guitarists Ray Parker Jr. and Wah Wah Watson, and the 20-year-old bassist Michael Henderson, fresh from a Miles Davis tourand simply jammed over several days. These tracks, mostly instrumental, are as brooding and funky as the Whats Going On album cover. The rest of the disc includes Gayes final sessions in Detroit; among the few tunes he recorded was a sequel of sorts to the album, the politically tinged non-LP single Youre The Man, which hit the R&B top 10 in spring 1972. Also included are two rare alternate takes of the song.

Capping this special release is the first ever 12-inch vinyl LP of the Detroit Mix of Whats Going On, the original, darker mix of the entire album, left behind when Gaye decided to finish the overdubs in Los Angeles.

Inside is an LP-sized booklet with rare photos from the sessions, the original lyrics, detailed recording annotations and two essays: one by Gaye biographer David Ritz describing the Why Marvin Gaye created his first-ever self-produced album, and another detailing the How by Ben Edmonds, author of Whats Going On: Marvin Gaye and The Last Days Of The Motown Sound.

A meditative act of artistic rebellion, What's Going On broke the Motown mold. The album introduced Marvin Gaye, the company's sexy prince, as an uncompromising singer, songwriter and producer, and from the first day of release it was recognized as a masterwork. This 40th Anniversary edition includes on two CDs a remastered version of the ablum; the original mono hit singles; the original, rejected, "no strings" single mix of the title track; several post-album outtakes; his single sequel, "You're The Man"; a series of recordings, mostly instrumental, made in Detroit before Marvin followed Motown to Los Angeles. The Motor City theme of this edition continues on the included 12-inch: The LP's rare, original "Detroit Mix," on vinyl for the very first time!

Features:
40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
2CDs + Vinyl LP
Double Gatefold that houses LP on one side and the 2CDs in the other panel
Original Album Artwork
Remastered From Original Analog Source
Mastered at Universal Mastering Studios-East
Cut at Sterling Sound, NYC
Pressed at United Records, Nashville, TN
28 CD bonus tracks
Original mono versions of the LP's hit singles
A previously unreleased original "Quality Control test mix" of What's Going On, mixed before Marvin had added strings, horns and additional vocals
Several pre-album outtakes, recorded while Marvin was 'on strike', waiting for his single to be released, including "Head Title", now in unedited form for the first time
Several post-album instrumental jams with local musicians who included Ray Parker, Jr. - a series of recordings made in Detroit before Marvin followed Motown to Los Angeles
The original single version of a sequel to the album, "You're The Man", as well as two alternative versions

CD One:
What's Going On: Original Album Remastered
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
4. Save The Children
5. God Is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Bonus Tracks:
10. What's Going On (unreleased original single mix)
11. Head Title - a.k.a. Distant Lover (demo version, original master)
12. Symphony (demo version)
13. I Love The Ground You Walk On (instrumental)
14. What's Going On (mono single version)
15. God Is Love (mono single version)
16. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (mono single version)
17. Sad Tomorrows (mono single version)
18. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (mono single version)
19. Wholy Holy (mono single version)

CD 2:
The Detroit Instrumental Sessions and More
1. Checking Out (Double Clutch)
2. Chained
3. Country Stud
4. Help The People
5. Running From Love (instrumental - version 1)
6. Daybreak
7. Doing My Thing
8. "T" Stands For Time
9. Jesus Is Our Love Song
10. Funky Nation
11. Infinity
12. Mandonta
13. Struttin' The Blues
14. Running From Love (version 2 with strings)
15. I'm Going Home (Move)
16. You're The Man (parts 1 & 2, orignal mono single version)
17. You're The Man (alternate version 1)
18. You're The Man (alternate version 2)

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has obtained the master tapes of this landmark album and for the first time Whats Going On will be released on 180 gram ultra analog LP.

As with all Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab releases, meticulous attention to detail is paid during the transfer process.

Marvin Gayes Whats Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out and, in 2003, it was ranked number 6, the highest for a non-rock album, in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. What's Going On became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.

What's Going On, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.