The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Stubborn Kind of Fellow
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Hitch Hike
  2:33
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Pride and Joy
  2:08
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Can I Get a Witness
  2:50
  3.5 ★
• 5
  You're a Wonderful One
  2:43
  4.5 ★
• 6
  How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 7
  I'll Be Doggone
  2:48
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Ain't That Peculiar
  3:00
  3.6 ★
• 9
  It Takes Two

  Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Ain't No Mountain High Enough

  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  2:28
  4.6 ★
• 11
  Your Precious Love

  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 12
  If I Could Build My Whole World Around You

  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  2:21
• 13
  Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 14
  You're All I Need to Get By

  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  2:51
  4.5 ★
• 15
  You
  2:27
  3.5 ★
• 16
  I Heard It Through the Grapevine
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• 18
  That's the Way Love Is
  3:44
  4.0 ★
• 19
  His Eye Is on the Sparrow (stereo mix)
  3:48
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  What's Going On
  3:52
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
  3:13
  4.7 ★
• 3
  Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
  5:28
  4.4 ★
• 4
  You're the Man, Parts 1 & 2
  5:48
• 5
  Where Are We Going?
  3:57
• 6
  Trouble Man
  3:51
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Let's Get It On
  4:53
  4.1 ★
• 8
  Come Get to This
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Distant Lover (live)
  6:19
• 10
  I Want You
  3:57
• 11
  Got to Give It Up
  11:53
• 12
  Anger
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Ego Tripping Out
  7:14
  2.0 ★
• 14
  Praise
  4:53
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Sexual Healing
  3:59
  3.6 ★

More by Marvin Gaye

What’s Going On

What’s Going On 1971

Let’s Get It On

Let’s Get It On 1973

Romantically Yours

Romantically Yours 1985

In Our Lifetime

In Our Lifetime 1981

Here, My Dear

Here, My Dear 1978

I Want You

I Want You 1976

Release credits

• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [2]
• Annette Beard
  background vocals [1-2]
• Art Stewart
  engineer [7]
• Arthur “T‐Boy” Ross
  producer [10]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Berry Gordy
  executive [10], producer [6]
• Bobbye Hall
  bongos [7], congas [7]
• Brian Holland
  producer [6]
• Cal Harris
  engineer [8], mix [7-8]
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
  arranger [10]
• Dale Oehler
  arranger [6]
• Dan Bates
  wind instruments [15]
• Dave Hamilton
  guitar [1]
• David Stout
  wind instruments [15]
• David T. Walker
  guitar family [7]
• David Van dePitte
  arranger [2-3], conductor [1-3]
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  instrument [1], performing orchestra [16]
• Didier Leonard
  assistant [15]
• Donald Ozga
  French horn [16]
• Donald Peake
  guitar family [7]
• Earl Van Dyke
  Hammond organ [16], piano [2]
• Ed Townsend
  producer [7]
• Eddie Willis
  guitar [1.2, 1.16, 2.8]
• Eddie “Bongo” Brown
  bongos [7], congas [7]
• Edwin Jones
  French horn [16]
• Emil Richards
  percussion [7], vibraphone [7]
• Ernie Watts
  saxophone [7]
• Gloria Williams
  background vocals [1]
• Gordon Banks
  background vocals [15], guitar [15]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [15], editor [15], mix [15]
• Henri Van Durme
  assistant [15]
• Henry Cosby
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Ivy Jo Hunter
  producer [15]
• Jack Ashford
  congas [2, 16], tambourine [16]
• Jackie Hicks
  background vocals [16]
• James Jamerson
  bass [1-2, 16]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [1]
• Joe Messina
  guitar [16]
• Joe Sample
  piano [7]
• John Kovarek
  engineer [15]
• Johnny Griffith
  Wurlitzer electric piano [16]
• Kim Weston
  vocal [9]
• Lamont Dozier
  producer [6]
• Larkin Arnold
  executive [15]
• Lawrence Miles
  mix [1-2, 2-3]
• Lem Barney
  background vocals [1]
• Leon Ware
  producer [10]
• Louie Shelton
  guitar family [7]
• Louvain Demps
  background vocals [16]
• Marlene Barrow
  background vocals [16]
• Martha Reeves
  background vocals [1-2]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [1-2, 7, 15], bell [15], bongos [15], congas [15], drums (drum set) [2.15, 1.2], electric piano [15], executive [10], finger cymbals [15], glockenspiel [15], lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.13, 1.16, 2.1-2, 2.6-8], mellotron [2], organ [15], percussion [1], piano [1-2, 7], producer [1-3, 6-8, 15], synthesizer [15], vocal [1.10, 2.8, 2.10, 2.15]
• Marvin Jenkins
  piano [7]
• McKinley Jackson
  wind instruments [15]
• Mel Farr
  background vocals [1]
• Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson
  guitar family [7]
• Mike Butcher
  engineer [15]
• Nickolas Ashford
  background vocals [13], producer [13-14]
• Norman Whitfield
  producer [16-17]
• Paul Humphrey
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Paul Riser
  orchestrator [16], strings [16]
• Plas Johnson
  saxophone [7]
• René Hall
  conductor [7]
• Richard "Pistol" Allen
  tom-tom [16]
• Rosalind Ashford
  background vocals [1-2]
• Smokey Robinson
  producer [7-8]
• Steve Smith
  engineer [8]
• Tammi Terrell
  lead vocals [13], vocal [10-12, 14]
• The Andantes
  background vocals [1.16, 2.2]
• The Funk Brothers
  instrument [2.1-2, 1.13, 1.16]
• The L.A. Horn Section
  wind instruments [15]
• Thomas Bowles
  flute [1-2]
• Uriel Jones
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Valerie Simpson
  background vocals [13], producer [13-14]
• Victor Feldman
  vibraphone [7]
• Wild Bill Moore
  solo [2], tenor saxophone [2]
• William McMeekin
  engineer [7]
• William Stevenson
  producer [1-2, 6]
• Wilton Felder
  bass guitar [7]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

  2x CD
  17 July 2001
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

  2x CD
  2001
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

  2x CD
  2001
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  Gold

  2x CD
  11 January 2005
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  Gold

  2x CD
  11 January 2005