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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]
- ^ Eric Harvey (May 15, 2012). "The Quiet Storm". Pitchfork.
- ^ Distant Lover > Song Review . All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on 2008-08-17.