MARVIN GAYE - LET'S GET IT ON LIVE IN MONTREUX

LIVE IN MONTREUX 1980

LET’S GET IT ON

Marvin Gaye

SONGWRITERS: BENSON; MARVIN GAYE & ED TOWNSEND

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LET’S GET IT ON?/LP

LABEL: TAMLA

GENRE: SOUL MUSIC

YEAR: 1973

    Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 is a taped performance of singer Marvin Gaye's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded on July 17, 1980. Gaye included this performance as part of a European tour. Gaye performs a majority of his hits from his recent disco-funk hits "Got to Give It Up" and "A Funky Space Reincarnation", to his duet hits with Tammi Terrell including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", in which Gaye re-interpolated the songs as a somber tribute to Terrell, who died over a decade before, to sixties Motown classics such as "I'll Be Doggone", "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It through the Grapevine", to seventies standards such as "What's Going On", "Trouble Man" and "Let's Get It On". The Montreux set was later released as a CD/DVD in 2003.

      "LET'S GET IT ON" hIS A SONG AND it single by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released June 15, 1973, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. The song was recorded on March 22, 1973, 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 landmark 1973 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 icon during its initial popularity.

I've been really tryin', baby

Tryin' to hold back this feelin' for so long

And if you feel like I feel, baby

Then come on, oh come on

Let's get it on, oh baby

Let's get it on

Let's love, baby

Let's get it on

Sugar, let's get it on

We're all sensitive people

With so much to give

Understand me, sugar

Since we got to being

Let's live

I love you

There's nothing wrong with me

Lovin' you, baby no no

And givin' yourself to me could never be wrong

If the love is true, oh baby

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful

Life can be

I'm asking you baby

To get it on with me

I ain't gonna worry

I ain't gonna push

I won't push you baby

So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on baby

Stop beatin' 'round the bush

Let's get it on

Let's get it on

You know what I'm talkin' about

Come on baby, hey hey

Let your love come out

If you believe in love

Let's get it on

Let's get it on, baby

This minute, oh yeah

Let's get it on

Please get it on

I know you know

What I've been dreamin' of

Don't you, baby?

My whole body is in love

Whoo

I ain't gonna worry, no, I ain't gonna push

I won't push you, baby, whoo

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, darlin'

Stop beatin' 'round the bush, hey

Gonna get it on

Beggin' you, baby, I want to get it on

You don't have to worry that it's wrong

If the spirit moves you, let me groove you good

Let your love come down

Oh, get it on, come on, baby

Do you know I mean it?

I've been sanctified

Hey, hey

Girl, you give me good feelings, so good

Nothin' wrong with love

If you want to love me

Just let yourself go

Oh, baby

Let's get it on