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"Distant Lover" | |
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Single by Marvin Gaye | |
from the album Let's Get It On | |
A-side | "Come Get to This" |
Released | 1973 |
Recorded | November 3, 1970 – July 20, 1973 |
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Length | 4:15 |
Label | Tamla |
Songwriter(s) | Marvin Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Sandra Greene |
Producer(s) | Marvin Gaye |
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"Distant Lover (live)" | ||||
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Single by Marvin Gaye | ||||
from the album Marvin Gaye Live! | ||||
Released | June 28, 1974 | |||
Recorded | January 4, 1974 Oakland Coliseum (Oakland, California) | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 6:20 (album version) 3:45 (single version) | |||
Label | Tamla | |||
Songwriter(s) | Marvin Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Sandra Greene | |||
Producer(s) | Marvin Gaye | |||
Marvin Gaye singles chronology | ||||
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"Distant Lover" is the sixth song issued on singer Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, Let's Get It On and the B-side of the second single from that album, "Come Get to This". A live recording was issued as a single in 1974. The live version of the song was Gaye's most successful single during the three-year gap between Let's Get It On and his following 1976 album, I Want You.[2]