Probably the most sensual data in chart historical past grew to become an American No.1 on September 8, 1973. Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” hit the highest to turn out to be the second of his three US pop chart-toppers, and obtained listeners scorching beneath the collar with its material.
On that Billboard Scorching 100, “Let’s Get It On” accomplished its climb to No.1, taking on from Tales’ “Brother Louie.” Per week later, Gaye was changed on the prime by Helen Reddy’s “Delta Dawn.” Seven days from then, he had regained the crown for a second week on the summit.
The tune was written and produced by Gaye with Ed Townsend, who would later contend that his preliminary concept with the lyric was not about intercourse, however about overcoming habit, and getting on with the enterprise of life. However Gaye was fairly clear-cut about the subject material on the sleeve notes of the Let’s Get It On album, which reached No.2. “I can’t see anything wrong with sex between consenting anybodies,” he wrote.
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The groove of “Let’s Get It On” was so infectious that, on the album of the identical title, it was revisited for “Keep Gettin’ It On.” The periods, recorded at Motown’s Hitsville West Studios in March 1973, featured such celebrated gamers as horn males Plas Johnson and Ernie Watts and the Crusaders’ duo of Joe Pattern and Wilton Felder, in addition to Gaye himself on piano.
Townsend, who had recognized Gaye via the Nineteen Sixties, wrote within the liner notes for the 2001 deluxe version of the album: “I have been blessed to work with many great vocalists in my career, but none quite like Marvin Gaye. The sessions for ‘Let’s Get It On’ were the first time I was overwhelmed by a singer’s ability to understand and interpret the true meaning of a song.”
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