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| "Your Precious Love" | ||||
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| Single by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell | ||||
| from the album United | ||||
| B-side | "Hold Me Oh My Darling" | |||
| Released | August 22, 1967[1] | |||
| Recorded | March 23, 1967[1] | |||
| Studio | Hitsville USA, Detroit | |||
| Genre | Soul, pop | |||
| Length | 3:07 | |||
| Label | Tamla T 54156 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson | |||
| Producer(s) | Harvey Fuqua Johnny Bristol | |||
| Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell singles chronology | ||||
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"Your Precious Love" is a popular song that was a 1967 hit for Motown singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The song was written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol. The doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Fuqua, Gaye, Terrell and Bristol, and instrumentals by The Funk Brothers with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The song peaked at #5 on Billboard Pop Singles chart,[2] #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart, and the top 40 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.[3][4] The song was later sampled by Gerald Levert on the song, "Your Smile", on his 2002 album, The G Spot.
Billboard described the single as "a soulful blues ballad."[5] Billboard also felt that both "Your Precious Love" and its b-side "Hold Me Oh My Darling" had equal sales potential as the duos previous hit single "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."[5]
- ^ a b Hughes, Keith (2018). "Your Precious Love". Don't Forget the Motor City. Ritchie Hardin. Archived from the original on 16 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales". Billboard. Retrieved May 21, 2009.
- ^ The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 7: 1967 [CD liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 225.
- ^ a b "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. September 2, 1967. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-02-25.