The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

Tracklist

• 1
  I Heard It Through the Grapevine
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 2
  What’s Going On
  3:49
  4.2 ★
• 3
  (Sexual) Healing
  4:07
  3.6 ★
• 4
  You Are Everything

  Marvin Gaye with Diana Ross
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 5
  It Takes Two

  Marvin Gaye with Kim Weston
  2:57
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Let’s Get It On
  3:59
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Abraham, Martin and John
  4:16
• 8
  Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 9
  How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)
  2:56
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
  3:14
  4.7 ★
• 11
  Stop, Look, Listen (to Your Heart)

  Marvin Gaye with Diana Ross
  2:53
  4.5 ★
• 12
  You’re All I Need to Get By

  Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell
  2:51
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing

  Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)
  2:11
  4.0 ★
• 15
  The Onion Song

  Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 16
  You Ain’t Livin’ Till You’re Lovin’

  Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy to Come By

  Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 18
  That’s the Way Love Is
  3:41
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Got to Give It Up (Part 1)
  4:09
  4.1 ★
• 20
  When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
  6:16
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Can I Get a Witness
  2:47
  3.5 ★
• 22
  Lucky Lucky Me
  2:56

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

• Art Stewart
  producer [19]
• Berry Gordy
  producer [9]
• Brian Holland
  producer [9]
• Dan Bates
  wind instruments [3]
• Dave Blumberg
  arranger [4]
• David Stout
  wind instruments [3]
• David Van dePitte
  arranger [10], conductor [2, 10]
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  instrument [2], performing orchestra [1]
• Diana Ross
  vocal [4]
• Didier Leonard
  assistant [3]
• Donald Ozga
  French horn [1]
• Earl Van Dyke
  Hammond organ [1]
• Ed Townsend
  producer [6]
• Eddie Willis
  guitar [1]
• Edwin Jones
  French horn [1]
• Emil Richards
  percussion [6]
• Gene Page
  arranger [11]
• Gordon Banks
  background vocals [3], guitar [3]
• Hal Davis
  producer [4, 11]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [3], editor [3], mix [3]
• Henri Van Durme
  assistant [3]
• Jack Ashford
  congas [1], tambourine [1]
• Jackie Hicks
  background vocals [1]
• James Jamerson
  bass [1]
• Joe Messina
  guitar [1]
• John Kovarek
  engineer [3]
• Johnny Griffith
  Wurlitzer electric piano [1]
• Kim Weston
  vocal [5]
• Lamont Dozier
  producer [9]
• Larkin Arnold
  executive [3]
• Lawrence Miles
  mix [2, 10]
• Lem Barney
  background vocals [2]
• Louvain Demps
  background vocals [1]
• Marlene Barrow
  background vocals [1]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [2-3, 10], bell [3], bongos [3], congas [3], drums (drum set) [3], electric piano [3], finger cymbals [3], glockenspiel [3], lead vocals [1-2, 10, 13], mellotron [10], organ [3], percussion [2], piano [2, 10], producer [2-3, 6, 10], synthesizer [3], vocal [3]
• McKinley Jackson
  wind instruments [3]
• Mel Farr
  background vocals [2]
• Mike Butcher
  engineer [3]
• Nickolas Ashford
  background vocals [13], producer [12-13]
• Norman Whitfield
  producer [1, 8]
• Paul Riser
  orchestrator [1], strings [1]
• Richard "Pistol" Allen
  tom-tom [1]
• Tammi Terrell
  lead vocals [13], vocal [12]
• The Andantes
  background vocals [1, 10]
• The Funk Brothers
  instrument [1-2, 10, 13]
• The L.A. Horn Section
  wind instruments [3]
• Uriel Jones
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Valerie Simpson
  background vocals [13], producer [12-13]
• Wild Bill Moore
  solo [10], tenor saxophone [10]
• William Stevenson
  producer [9]
• Show all credits (50)

Issues

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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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  29 March 1994
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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  1994
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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  18 June 1999
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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  2005
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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  15 January 2020
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  The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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