Let's Get It On

by Marvin Gaye

Overview

After brilliantly surveying the social, political and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy. Always a sexually-charged performer, Gaye's passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a Number One smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball;" silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody. With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let's Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later -- much copied, but never imitated. -- All-Music Guide

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2022
Label:	Universal
UPC:	4988031508053
Rank:	43613

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Marvin Gaye   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
The Miracles   Primary Artist
The Originals   Primary Artist
The Monitors   Primary Artist
Uriel Jones   Drums
David T. Walker   Guitar
Wah Wah Watson   Guitar
Bobbye Hall   Bongos
Rene Hall   Conductor
Wilton Felder   Guitar (Bass)
Art Stewart   Horn,Strings
Arthur Wright   Guitar
Paul Humphrey   Drums
Marvin Jenkins   Piano
Eddie Brown   Drums,Bongos
Joe Sample   Piano
Emil Richards   Vibraphone
Louie Shelton   Guitar
Victor Feldman   Vibraphone
Don Peake   Guitar
Madeline   Vocals
James Jamerson   Guitar (Bass)
Fred Ross   Vocals

Technical Credits

Ed Townsend   Composer,Producer
Elgie Stover   Composer
Edward Townsend   Composer
Edward Scott   Composer
Fred Wise   Composer
Johnny Mandel   Composer
Robert Gordy   Composer
Scott Frankfurt   Mixing Engineer
Kathy Wakefield   Composer
Marvin Gaye   Composer,Producer
Rudy Hill   Recording
Michael Leonard   Composer
Rene Hall   Recording Arranger
Gwen Fuqua   Composer
Anna Gordy Gaye   Composer
Willie Hutch   Composer
Art Stewart   Recording,Vocal Engineer
Hamilton Bohannon   Composer
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
David Van De Pitte   Composer,Recording Arranger
Bobby Scott   Producer,Recording Arranger
Gene Page   Recording Arranger
Smokey Robinson   Composer
Marilyn McLeod   Composer
Michael Henderson   Composer
Al Frisch   Composer
Arthur Hamilton   Composer
Cal Harris   Recording,Mixing Engineer
Herbert Martin   Composer
David Blumberg   Recording Arranger
John Morales   Mixing Engineer
Mickey Gentile   Producer,Executive Producer
Mel Bolton   Composer
Ezra Bolton   Composer
Edward Gordon   Composer
Steve Smith   Recording
Kenneth Stover   Composer
Gwen Gordy Fuqua   Composer
Sandra Elaine Greene   Composer
Lawrence Miles   Recording
William McMeekin   Recording,Vocal Engineer
Frank Loesser   Composer
Kevin Reeves   Remix Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Irene Higginbotham   Composer
Larry Holofcener   Composer
Larry Mizell   Composer