The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

by Marvin Gaye

Overview

This is a stripped-down (there is no CD booklet) reissue of Motown's 1986 Marvin Gaye release of the same title, which in turn was a CD issue of the Telstar LP set. As a single-disc collection it's decent, but hardly the end all of Marvin Gaye compilations, although it does include Gaye's masterful 1982 Columbia Records hit "Sexual Healing" along with classic Motown hits from various stages of his career like "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "What's Going On," and several of his duets with Tammi Terrell. For a greatest-hits type anthology, though, there's a fair amount of lesser tracks and filler here, and better collections are easily available. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	01/12/1999
Label:	Motown / Def Jam / Island / Island/Def Jam / Polygram / Universal / Universal Music
UPC:	0731453029224
Rank:	55238

Tracks

1. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
2. What's Going On
3. Sexual Healing
4. You Are Everything
5. It Takes Two
6. Let's Get It On
7. Abraham, Martin and John
8. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
9. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
10. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
11. Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
12. You're All I Need to Get By
13. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
14. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
15. The Onion Song
16. You Ain't Livin Till Your're Lovin
17. Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By
18. That's the Way Love Is
19. Got to Give It Up, Pt. 1
20. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
21. Can I Get a Witness
22. Lucky, Lucky Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Marvin Gaye   Primary Artist,Drums,Vocals,Keyboards
Kim Weston   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Diana Ross   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Tammi Terrell   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Wade Marcus   Conductor
Paul Riser   Conductor
David Van De Pitte   Conductor

Technical Credits

Norman Whitfield   Composer,Producer
David Blumberg   Arranger
Ray Hayden   Mixing,Remixing,Production Assistant,Additional Production
William Stevenson   Composer,Producer
Richard Louis Holler   Composer
Sylvia Moy   Composer,Producer
Ivy Jo Hunter   Composer,Producer
Lamont Dozier   Composer,Producer
Barrett Strong   Composer
Ed Townsend   Composer,Producer
Eddie Holland   Composer
Janie Bradford   Composer
Edward Townsend   Composer
Dick Holler   Composer
Thomas Bell   Composer
Valerie Simpson   Composer,Producer
Marvin Gaye   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Odell Brown   Composer
Renaldo Benson   Composer
Rene Hall   Arranger
Al Cleveland   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer,Producer
Hal Davis   Producer
Art Stewart   Producer
Thom Bell   Composer
Harvey Fuqua   Producer
Henry Cosby   Composer,Producer
William "Mickey" Stevenson   Composer,Producer
Paul Riser   Arranger
David Van De Pitte   Arranger
Ivory Joe Hunter   Composer
Beatrice Verdi   Composer
Gene Page   Arranger
David Ritz   Composer
Johnny Bristol   Producer
Linda Creed   Composer
Nickolas Ashford   Composer,Producer