Let's Get It On

by Marvin Gaye

Let's Get It On cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 28, 1973
  • Label: Tamla
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:38
  • Community rating: 4.34/5 from 13 ratings

Artists on this release: David T. Walker, Marvin Jenkins, Paul Humphries, Wilton Felder, James Jamerson, Victor Feldman, Arthur Wright, Lewis Shelton, Uriel Jones, Bobby Hall Porter, Emil Richards, Joe Sample, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson, Don Peake, Melvin Ragin, Wah Wah Watson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' marked a definitive pivot from social commentary to a sensual exploration of love, sex, and spiritual healing. [1] The album's seductive sound is built on a foundation of funk, smooth soul, and doo-wop, distinguished by Gaye's pioneering use of multi-tracked vocal harmonies and the iconic wah-wah guitar lines of The Funk Brothers. [1, 2] This landmark recording established Gaye as a mainstream sex icon, became his most commercially successful Motown album, and provided an influential blueprint for the slow jam and quiet storm R&B formats that followed. [1]

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, velvety, ballad, groove-laden, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Let's Get It On (4:44)
  2. Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away) (3:32)
  3. If I Should Die Tonight (3:57)
  4. Keep Gettin' It On (3:12)
  5. Come Get To This (2:40)
  6. Distant Lover (4:15)
  7. You Sure Love To Ball (4:43)
  8. Just To Keep You Satisfied (4:35)

Credits

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