Marvin Gaye - In The Groove

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The eighth studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released on August 26, 1968 on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. It was the first solo studio album Gaye released in two years, after recording duets with female R&B singers Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell. In the Groove was reissued and retitled as I Heard It Through the Grapevine after the unexpected success of that tune, which would become Gaye's biggest-selling and signature single of his career. For the song, producer Whitfield decided to force Gaye to raise his vocal register higher than what he was used to. The album also marked Gaye's first attempts at producing himself in the studio with his own self-penned songs, the funky gospel dancer, "At Last I Found a Love", and the smoother "Change What You Can". 

Tracklist:

SIDE ONE:

1. YOU
2. TEAR IT DOWN
3. CHAINED
4. I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAVEPINE
5. AT LAST (I FOUND LOVE)
6. SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL

SIDE TWO:

1. LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER
2. CHANGE WHAT YOU CAN
3. IT’S LOVE I NEED
4. EVERY NOW AND THEN
5. YOU’RE WHAT’S HAPPENING (IN THE WORLD TODAY)
6. THERE GOES MY BABY

Personnel:

MARVIN GAYE, lead vocals

Background vocals by The Andantes, The Originals, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent Wilson and Pamela Vincent

Instrumental accompaniment by The Funk Brothers & the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Produced by 

Norman Whitfield, Ivy Jo Hunter & Frank Wilson

HERBART/DESIGN 

COVER PHOTO BY/MOTOWN GA-P. BASS

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