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Gaye's albums, and especially I Want You, have been influential on modern soul music and contemporary R&B. [2] EMI Artists and Repertoire executive Gary Harris, who later assisted neo soul singer D'Angelo in recording his debut album Brown Sugar (1995), later commented on Gaye's significant artistry on I Want You and its opening title track. [6]
In 1976, Argentinian tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri covered "I Want You" on his album Caliente!. [17] In the same year, a large personnel participated in a cover of the song from Stanley Turrentine's The Man with the Sad Face. In 1990, British singer Robert Palmer covered "I Want You" as a medley with another Marvin Gaye song, "Mercy Mercy Me ...
Gaye recorded sixty seven charted singles on the Billboard charts, with forty-one reaching the top forty, eighteen reaching the top ten and three peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Sixty of his singles reached the top forty of the R&B charts , with thirty-eight of those reaching the top ten and thirteen peaking at number one.
"I Want You" (Martin Solveig song), 2008 "I Want You" (Marvin Gaye song), 1976, covered in 1990 by Robert Palmer covered as a medley with "Mercy Mercy Me", and by Madonna with Massive Attack in 1995 "I Want You" (Paris Avenue song), 2004 "I Want You" (Roxette song), 1987 "I Want You" (Savage Garden song), 1996 "I Want You" (Shana song), 1989 "I ...
Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American R&B/soul singer and Motown legend Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label in 1976 on LP and 1987 on CD.
From the wah-wah guitar that opens the title track to the operatic closer “Just to Keep You Satisfied,” Marvin Gaye’s 1973 album “Let’s Get It On” expressed the joy — and complexity ...
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (né Gay; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) [1] was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
"After the Dance" is a slow jam recorded by singer Marvin Gaye and released as the second single off Gaye's 1976 hit album I Want You. Though it received modest success, the song was widely considered to be one of Gaye's best ballads [1] and served as part of the template for quiet storm and urban contemporary ballads that came afterwards.