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Marvin Gaye - Love For Sale (Forgotten Gems) '2022

Love For Sale (Forgotten Gems)
ArtistMarvin Gaye Related artists
Album name Love For Sale (Forgotten Gems)
Country
Date 2022
GenreR&B
Play time 56:29
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 220 MB
PriceDownload $1.95
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Love For Sale (02:56)
2. Easy Living (03:08)
3. Mr Sandman (02:34)
4. Never Let You Go (02:44)
5. I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over (05:14)
6. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (03:04)
7. How High The Moon (02:32)
8. Always (03:02)
9. How Deep Is The Ocean (03:11)
10. Soldiers Plea (02:46)
11. I'm Yours, You're Mine (01:57)
12. You Don't Know What Love Is (03:57)
13. Witchcraft (02:26)
14. Taking My Time (02:30)
15. Hello There Angel (02:42)
16. It Hurts Me Too (02:45)
17. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (02:47)
18. Hitch Hike (02:34)
19. My Funny Valentine (03:32)


 moreMarvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was born on April 2, 1939, in Washington, D.C.,
the second child of Reverend Marvin Gay and Alberta Gay. A minister in the House
of God, Reverend Marvin Gay ran a strict household and his son -- who would add
an "e" to his surname when he signed to Motown/Tamla, partially in tribute to
his idol Sam Cooke -- sought refuge in music. Marvin Gaye sang in his father's
church at the age of three and quickly rose through its ranks as a soloist.
Soon, he also learned piano and drums.

Following his high school graduation, Gaye enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Once
his service concluded, he returned to Washington, immersing himself in the
city's doo wop scene. He became part of the Rainbows, who were taken under the
wing of Bo Diddley, an association that led them to OKeh after he couldn't
convince his label Chess to sign the group. The Rainbows became the Marquees and
they recorded "Hey Little School Girl"/"Wyatt Earp" with Diddley, but the 45
didn't go anywhere. Not long afterward, R&B impresario Harvey Fuqua enlisted the
Marquees as his backing group, changing their name to the New Moonglows. The
group relocated to Fuqua's hometown of Chicago and recorded a handful of sides
for Chess, all billed as Harvey Fuqua and the Moonglows. Notable among these was
1959's "Mama Loocie," the first song to feature Gaye singing lead.

The Moonglows split in 1960, and Gaye followed Fuqua to Detroit, working with
Tri-Phi Records as a house musician. At the end of the year, Gaye caught the
attention of Motown founder Berry Gordy, who negotiated a deal with Fuqua for
Gaye to sign to the Motown subsidiary Tamla.

Initially, Gaye planned to be a supper-club singer specializing in standards and
jazz, but Gordy wanted him to aim toward a younger audience. The duo
compromised. His 1961 debut single, "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide,"
satisfied Gordy's needs, while the full-length The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye
skewed toward the singer's preferences. Over the next few years, there was
tension between Gaye's conception of himself as a singer and Motown/Tamla's
musical direction, and the vocalist slowly gravitated in Gordy's direction.
During this transition, Gaye earned money by playing sessions as a drummer,
which led to him penning original songs. He scored his first hit as a songwriter
when the Marvelettes took "Beechwood 4-5789" into the Billboard Top 20 -- and
the R&B Top Ten -- in the summer of 1962.

Gaye struck gold himself not much later, when "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" went to
eight on Billboard's R&B charts. "Hitch Hike" gave him another R&B hit in 1962,
but it was "Pride and Joy" that brought him into the pop charts, reaching ten in
the summer of 1963. After "Can I Get a Witness" -- which went to three R&B, but
22 pop -- he placed four hits in the pop 20 during 1964 ("You're a Wonderful
One," "Try It Baby," plus the Mary Wells duets "What's the Matter with You Baby"
and "Once Upon a Time"), while also scoring a smash as songwriter via the Martha
& the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street," which he co-wrote with Ivy Jo Hunter
and William "Mickey" Stevenson.

All of this was prelude to "How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You." Peaking at six
in early 1965, "How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You" kicked off a year that also
found "I'll Be Doggone" and "Ain't That Peculiar" reaching the pop Top Ten; both
reached eight on the pop chart and number one R&B. In comparison, 1966 was
relatively quiet for Gaye -- while "One More Heartache" reached number four on
the R&B chart, it was his only pop Top 40 hit that year -- but 1967 began with
the immortal Kim Weston duet "It Takes Two," which peaked at 14 pop and four
R&B.

Gaye's partnership with Tammi Terrell was unveiled next via "Ain't No Mountain
High Enough." An undisputed classic -- it was later inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame -- the song spent three weeks at three on the R&B charts, reaching
number 19 pop. Teaming with Terrell was a boon to Gaye's commercial success.
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was the first of a series of smashes recorded by
Gaye & Terrell which were written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. "Your
Precious Love" went to two on R&B and five on pop, followed by "If I Could Build
My Whole World Around You" and the number ones "Ain't Nothing Like the Real
Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By," which both arrived in 1968.

During this flush of success, Terrell suffered from migraine headaches,
culminating in an on-stage collapse at an October 14, 1967 concert with Gaye.
The two managed to finish some recording sessions -- "You're All I Need to Get
By" dates from these -- before her death in 1970. Gaye took Terrell's death
hard, but he initially worked through the grief, scoring some of his greatest
hits along the way. Released at the end of 1968, "I Heard It Through the
Grapevine" spent seven weeks at the top of the pop charts in early 1969,
matching that streak on the R&B charts. It was one of his biggest hits, followed
by two subsequent smashes: "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" and "That's the Way
Love Is," both arriving in 1969.

Gaye retreated from the spotlight in the 1970, the result of personal problems
and professional disillusionment. He returned in 1971 with "What's Going On," a
single where Gaye deliberately embraced progressive politics and expansive
music. Motown head Berry Gordy wasn't eager to embrace this change and refused
to release "What's Going On," but after Gaye refused to record any other new
material, Gordy relented. "What's Going On" reached number one on the R&B charts
and two on pop, leading Gaye to record the rest of the album that March. Two
further hits followed: "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" and "Inner City Blues
(Make Me Wanna Holler)," both of which topped the R&B charts and went Top Ten
pop.

What's Going On freed other Motown artists from the label's tight creative
restrictions, but Gaye himself wound up a bit adrift in 1972. He attempted to
write further political material, but the resulting "You're the Man (Part 1)"
stiffed on the pop charts, failing to crack the Top 40 even though it went Top
Ten R&B. An attempted album anchored on "You're the Man" never materialized --
it'd be assembled as an archival release in 2019 -- but he did wind up scoring
the blaxploitation film Trouble Man, scoring a Top Ten R&B and pop hit with its
title track.

Gaye turned explicitly carnal on 1973's Let's Get It On. The title track became
a smash in the summer of 1973, reaching number one on Billboard's pop chart --
only his second single to reach the pole position on the Hot 100 -- and spending
six weeks on the top of the R&B charts. Diana & Marvin, a duet album with Diana
Ross, followed, featuring the hit "You're a Special Part of Me," but Let's Get
It On kept spinning out hits, with "Come Get to This" reaching three on the R&B
charts and "You Sure Love to Ball" getting to 13 the next year. In 1974, he
released Marvin Gaye Live! as he worked on his next album, I Want You.

Released in 1976, I Want You had an R&B number one in its title track (15 pop),
followed by "After the Dance" (14 R&B). That same year, Gaye's contentious
divorce from Anna Gordy was finalized. As part of the settlement, Gaye agreed to
record a new album whose royalties would cover missed alimony payments. As he
worked on the record, Motown released Live at the London Palladium, which
featured the single "Got to Give It Up, Pt. 1." A massive smash, reaching number
one on both pop and R&B charts, "Got to Give It Up" was Gaye's biggest hit of
the disco era.

Here, My Dear, Gaye's promised album to his ex-wife Anna, appeared in December
1978. The album not only contained no hits, it seemed designed to do. "A Funky
Space Reincarnation (Part 1)" went to 23 on the R&B charts, but didn't make the
Hot 100. Gaye began work on an album called Lover Man, but once its lead single,
"Ego Tripping Out," failed to chart, he scrapped the album and relocated to
Maui. His stay in Hawaii wasn't long. In 1981, he fled the United States for
Europe, all with the hopes of ditching the IRS. While there, he finished In Our
Lifetime, the album that ended his long-standing association with Motown.

Gaye reemerged on Columbia in 1982 with the gorgeous "Sexual Healing." Spending
ten weeks at the top of Billboard's R&B charts, the single spent three weeks at
three on the pop charts. His star newly ascendant, he patched up his
relationship with Motown, appearing on their 25th anniversary special, and he
also sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the NBA All-Star Game.

Just when it seemed like a new chapter in Gaye's life opened, it shut just as
quickly. He returned home, deep in the throes of cocaine addiction, and wound up
getting into a series of fights with his father. On April 1, 1984, Marvin Gay,
Sr. shot and killed his son; Marvin Gaye would've turned 45 years old the
following day.

A pair of posthumous collections quickly appeared in 1985: Romantically Yours
unearthed old big band material, Dream of a Lifetime rounded up funkier outtakes
from Columbia Records and Motown. Motown released Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye:
Never Before Released Masters in 1986, but the bigger project was the 1990
four-disc box The Marvin Gaye Collection. Over the three decades, Motown often
repackaged Gaye's music, sometimes releasing splashy archival packages, such as
1997's Vulnerable, which revived a ballads album Gaye abandoned in 1977, and
2019's You're the Man, which collected the extant 1972 recordings from the
singer. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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