After brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy.
Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody.
With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let's Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later -- much copied, but never imitated.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let's Get It OnMarvin Gaye, Ed Townsend | Marvin Gaye | Play | 04:51 | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| 2 | Please Stay (Once You Go Away)Marvin Gaye, Ed Townsend | Marvin Gaye | Play | 03:30 | 8 MB | 21 MB |
| 3 | If I Should Die TonightMarvin Gaye, Ed Townsend | Marvin Gaye | Play | 03:59 | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| 4 | Keep Gettin' It OnMarvin Gaye, Ed Townsend | Marvin Gaye | Play | 03:14 | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| 5 | Come Get to ThisMarvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | Play | 02:41 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 6 | Distant LoverGwen Fuqua, Marvin Gaye, Sandra Greene | Marvin Gaye | Play | 04:16 | 9 MB | 25 MB |
| 7 | You Sure Love to BallMarvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | Play | 04:44 | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| 8 | Just to Keep You SatisfiedAnna Gordy Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Elgie Stover | Marvin Gaye | Play | 04:30 | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| 31 mins | 72 MB | |||||
| 31 mins | 194 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin Barrett | Contractor |
| 2 | David Blumberg | Arranger |
| 3 | Shawn R. Britton | Mastering |
| 4 | Eddie "Bongo" Brown | Bongos, Congas, Drums, Percussion |
| 5 | Alana Coghlan | Design |
| 6 | Henry Dixon | Vocals (Background) |
| 7 | Ben Edmonds | Liner Notes |
| 8 | T.S. Eliot | Liner Notes |
| 9 | Wilton Felder | Bass |
| 10 | Victor Feldman | Vibraphone, Vocals (Background) |
| 11 | Ernie Field | Copyist |
| 12 | Gwen Fuqua | Composer |
| 13 | Walter Gaines | Vocals (Background) |
| 14 | Anna Gordy Gaye | Composer |
| 15 | Marvin Gaye | Composer, Drums, Keyboards, Liner Notes, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals |
| 16 | Nelson George | Liner Notes |
| 17 | Freddie Gorman | Vocals (Background) |
| 18 | Sandra Greene | Composer |
| 19 | Johnny Griffith | Keyboards |
| 20 | Bobbye Hall | Bongos, Percussion |
| 21 | Rene Hall | Arranger, Conductor |
| 22 | Herbie Hancock | Guest Artist |
| 23 | Cal Harris, Jr. | Engineer, Mixing |
| 24 | Paul Humphrey | Drums |
| 25 | Paul Humphrey & the Cool Aid Chemists | Drums |
| 26 | Paul Humphries | Drums |
| 27 | James Jamerson | Bass |
| 28 | Marvin Jenkins | Piano |
| 29 | Plas Johnson | Saxophone |
| 30 | Uriel Jones | Drums |
| 31 | Katherine Marking | Design |
| 32 | John Matousek | Digital Mastering |
| 33 | Bill McMeekin | Engineer |
| 34 | Larry Miles | Engineer |
| 35 | The Miracles | Guest Artist |
| 36 | The Originals | Guest Artist |
| 37 | Gene Page | Arranger |
| 38 | Donald Peake | Piano |
| 39 | Bobbye Porter | Bongos |
| 40 | Hall Bobby Porter | Bongos, Congas |
| 41 | Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin | Guitar, Piano |
| 42 | Emil Richard | Mallets, Vibraphone |
| 43 | Emil Richards | Mallets, Percussion, Vibraphone, Vocals (Background) |
| 44 | Fred Ross | Vocals (Background) |
| 45 | Madeline Ross | Vocals (Background) |
| 46 | Joe Sample | Piano |
| 47 | Lewis Shelton | Guitar |
| 48 | Louie Shelton | Guitar |
| 49 | Louis Shelton | Piano |
| 50 | Steve Smith | Engineer |
| 51 | C.P. Spencer | Vocals (Background) |
| 52 | Art Stewart | Engineer |
| 53 | Elgie Stover | Composer |
| 54 | Ed Townsend | Composer, Producer |
| 55 | David Van De Pitte | Arranger |
| 56 | Earl Van Dyke | Keyboards |
| 57 | David T. Walker | Guitar, Piano |
| 58 | Wah-Wah Watson | Guitar |
| 59 | Ernie Watts | Saxophone |
| 60 | Robert White | Guitar |
| 61 | Eddie Willis | Guitar |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |