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| Single by Marvin Gaye | ||||
| from the album Let's Get It On | ||||
| B-side | "I Wish It Would Rain" | |||
| Released | June 15, 1973[1] | |||
| Recorded | March 22, 1973 | |||
| Studio | Hitsville West, Los Angeles | |||
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| Label | Tamla | |||
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"Let's Get It On" is a song by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released June 15, 1973, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. The song was recorded at Hitsville West in Los Angeles, California. The song features romantic and sexual lyricism and funk instrumentation by The Funk Brothers. The title track of Gaye's album of the same name, it was written by Marvin Gaye and producer Ed Townsend. "Let's Get It On" became Gaye's most successful single for Motown and one of his most well-known songs. With the help of the song's sexually explicit content, "Let's Get It On" helped give Gaye a reputation as a sex symbol during its initial popularity. "Let's Get It On" is written and composed in the key of E-flat major[3] and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 82 beats per minute.
- ^ https://z1059.com/marvin-gayes-lets-get-it-on-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary/
- ^ Breihan, Tom (April 17, 2019). "The Number Ones: Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
...it's easy enough to imagine a clean, spare two-minute version of "Let's Get It On." But instead, Gaye turns it into a deep-funk throb.
- ^ Edward, Townsend; Marvin, Gaye; Marvin, Gaye (August 4, 2014). "Let's Get It On". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved April 9, 2021.