Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2016
Label: Motown Records
Track List
Side A
1. Let’s Get It On
2. Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin’ It On
Side B
1. Come Get To This
2. Distant Lover
3. You Sure Love To Ball
4. Just To Keep You Satisfied
Personnel
Vocals – Marvin Gaye
Bass – James Jamerson, Welton Felder
Bongos – Bobbye Hall Porter, Eddie “Bongo” Brown
Drums – Eddie “Bongo” Brown, Paul Humphries, Uriel Jones
Guitar – David T. Walker, Eddie Willis, Lewis Shelton, Wah Wah, Melvin Ragin, Robert White
Mallets – Emil Richards
Piano – Joe Sample, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Jenkins
Vibraphone – Emil Richards, Victor Feldman
Notes
Let’s Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gaye’s tenure with Motown. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for 11 weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single “Let’s Get It On” was Motown’s largest-selling recording ever, selling more than three million copies within two years of its release. Let’s Get It On contains three top 100 hits, “Let’s Get It On,” “Come Get To This” and “You Sure Love To Ball.”
