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45 Years Ago: Marvin Gaye Stirs Up a Storm on ‘I Want You’
Marvin Gaye was still in a pretty good place, personally and professionally, in prior 1976 as he was prepping the release of his 14th album, I Want You.
His last couple of albums – 1971's What's Going On and 1973's Let's Get It On – were critical and commercial hits, with the latter LP's title track going all the way to No. 1. In between those two records, he wrote and produced the soundtrack for Trouble Man. A truly solo achievement, Trouble Man served as some sort of consolation after What's Going On's sequel, You're the Man, was shelved because of its political leanings.
Gaye also embarked on a successful tour and recorded the last of his popular duet albums, this one with Diana Ross, around this time. Within two years, it would all appear tumbling down, as a messy divorce, drug abuse, another canceled record and dwindling sales piled up. But in 1976, all was still relatively good.
Back in 1970, when he was assembling the songs and ideas that would finding in What's Going On, Gaye was leading a modern art
‘I Want You’: Marvin Gaye’s Carnal Classic
After pretty much releasing an album a year since 1961, Marvin Gaye slowed down in the mid-70s. Following his stylistic rebirth at the start of the decade, the once prolific Gaye increasingly began to agonize over modern material. What’s Going On arguably saw him take himself and his tune seriously for the first time; 1973’sLet’s Get It On introduced the loverman persona he would largely run with for the remainder of his being. After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged in 1976 with his 14th solo album, releasing it at a day when the clubs were either rumbling to the sounds of punk or shaking under the weight of bodies on the disco dancefloor.
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Not that Gaye cared. Sure, he’d once looked to the outside planet, but I Wish You was unapologetically myopic – and intensely carnal. As its cover art, a 1971 painting by Ernie Barnes, entitled Sugar Shack, made abundantly eliminate, there was no room for maneuver between Gaye’s erotic fantasies and the barely suppressed demands of his urges. This was warm, sweaty, get-down music.
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Gaye had struggled to record
The 1970s were a decade of resurgence for Marvin Gaye. In the early part of the decade, the famed soul painter had released a series of smash albums, beginning with his epic opus What’s Going On in 1971 and continuing with Blaxploitation film soundtrack Trouble Man and Let’s Get It On in 1972 and 1973, respectively. It was this trio of successes that set the stage for Gaye’s next musical revelation.
After meeting Motown songwriter and producer Leon Ware, and impressed by new music Ware was producing for his own solo album, Gaye decided to strike up a production partnership. During the recording process, the love of his life, Janis Gaye, also provided a constant source of emotional inspiration. The resulting LP, I Want You, became another signature album in Gaye’s sterling collection of releases, exploring themes of sensuality, seduction, eroticism and carnal passion. With the assistance of Ware and Arthur “T-Boy” Ross, as well as an assemblage of top-notch musicians, Gaye was able to reach modern creative heights, firmly cementing his status as soul music’s primary man in the minds of both contemporary artists and his fans, who celebrated LP singles like “After the Dance,”
| Track number | Play | Loved | Track call | Artist name | Buy | Options | Duration | Listeners |
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| 1 | Act track | Devote this track | I Want You (Vocal) | 3:57 | 13,015 listeners | |||
| 2 | Play track | Love this path | Come Live With Me Angel | 6:30 | 112,024 listeners | |||
| 3 | Engage track | Admire this track | After The Dance (Instrumental) | 1:15 | 9,545 listeners | |||
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