HOLD ME OH MY DARLING
MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL
SONGWRITER: HARVEY FUQUA
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: UNITED
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1967
Marvin Gaye(born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April
2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to
shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a
solo artist with a string of successes, earning him the nicknames "Prince
of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
Gaye's
Motown songs include "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)",
and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
Gaye also recorded duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Tammi Terrell, and Diana Ross. During
the 1970s, Gaye recorded the albums What's Going
On and Let's Get It On and became one of the first artists in Motown to break away from the
reins of a production company. His later recordings influenced several
contemporary R&B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo soul. He was
a tax exile in Europe in the early 1980s; he released "Sexual Healing" in
1982, which won him his first two Grammy Awards on the album Midnight Love.
Gaye's last televised appearances were at the 1983 NBA
All-Star Game, where he sang "The
Star-Spangled Banner"; Motown
25: Yesterday, Today, Forever; and Soul Train.
Tammi Terrell(born Thomasina Winifred
Montgomery; April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter,
widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.
Terrell's career began as a teenager, first
recording for Scepter/Wand Records, before
spending nearly 9 months as a member of James Brown's
Revue, recording for Brown's Try Me label. After a period attending college, Terrell recorded briefly
for Checker Records, before
signing with Motown in 1965. With Gaye, Terrell scored seven Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100,
including "Ain't No
Mountain High Enough" which was inducted into
the Grammy Hall
of Fame in 1999, "Ain't Nothing
Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I
Need to Get By". Terrell's career was
interrupted when she collapsed into Gaye's arms as the two performed at a
concert at Hampden–Sydney
College on October 14, 1967, with Terrell
later being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
She had eight
unsuccessful surgeries before dying of the illness on March 16, 1970, at the
age of 24.
United is a studio album by soul musicians Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,
released August 29, 1967 on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol produced all of the tracks on the album, with the exception of
"You Got What
It Takes" (produced by Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr.) and
"Oh How I'd Miss You" (produced by Hal Davis).
Fuqua and Bristol produced "Hold Me Oh My Darling" and "Two Can
Have a Party" as Tammi Terrell solo tracks in 1965 and 1966, and had Gaye overdub his vocals to
them in order to create duet versions of the songs.
United yielded four Top 100 Billboard chart hits, including the two Top 10 singles "Your Precious Love,"
"If I Could Build My Whole World Around You,"
the Top 20 single, "Ain't No
Mountain High Enough" and "If This World
Were Mine". United peaked at #69 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart and #7 on the U.S. Billboard
R&B albums chart upon its release. The album
was the first of three collaborative albums by Gaye and Terrell.
I want you to hold me, oh my darling
& never, never let me go
Oh kiss me & tell me you love me
Yeah yeah because I, I I I I I, I I love you so
(I I love you, I love you so)
When I'm alone, alone
& troubled
& my life seems dark as night
All I ask, I'll ask you please
Yeah yeah, baby won't you be, won't you be be be, be my guiding light
(Won't you be be my guiding light)
You know I get such a
strange sensation
Every time I hear your name
Now all of my friends & my relations
They say I'm loving you (loving you) loving you in vain
Yeah yeah
Snuggle, snuggle on
my shoulder
Come on & tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me that you care
& as my love, my love, my love, my love grows older
Yeah yeah, tell me that the flame, that the flame flame flame
Flame will still be there
(That the flame flame will still be)
Yeah yeah (darlin', wo oh)
Hold me baby (darlin', wo oh) hold me.
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