Let’s Get it On sung by Marvin Gaye
December 4, 2008 by EditMotown50
Filed under Marvin Gaye, Motown 50 Disc 2
This was Marvin Gaye’s second number one single. “Let’s Get it On” was at the top of the US charts for 2 weeks in September 1973. It was the title track from an equally successful LP of the same name. Decidedly raunchy, it marked a new direction for Gaye who had previously written about war, the ghetto and the environment.
Marvin Gaye had 34 solo hits whilst at Motown and 15 more whilst part of various duo’s.
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Marvin Gaye was an outstanding artist. He showed the range of his subject material on this track and it is somewhat surprising that this was only his second number one. He is sadly missed.