The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (2001 album)

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The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye cover
Greatest hits by Marvin Gaye
Released July 17, 2001
Recorded 1962 - 1982
Genre R&B/pop/soul/psychedelic soul/funk
Length 02:07:00
00:50:58 (CD 1)
01:16:02 (CD 2)
Label Motown, Universal Music
Producer Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy, Larkin Arnold, Jeff Moskow, Harry Weinger, Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, Smokey Robinson, Valerie Simpson, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Art Stewart, Ed Townsend, Norman Whitfield, Leon Ware, Nickolas Ashford, Johnny Bristol, Henry Cosby, Lamont Dozier, Harvey Fuqua, Brian Holland
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The Very Best of Marvin Gaye is a chronological look back at American R&B/soul singer Marvin Gaye's three decade-plus music career throughout his tenure in Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s concluding with his final big hit, 1982's "Sexual Healing" from his brief tenure with Columbia Records before the singer's death in 1984. Re-released later in 2005 under Universal Records' Gold series, it has since been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc One

  1. "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" – 2:45
  2. "Hitch Hike" – 2:33
  3. "Pride and Joy" – 2:08
  4. "Can I Get a Witness" – 2:50
  5. "You Are a Wonderful One" – 2:43
  6. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" – 2:58
  7. "I'll Be Doggone" – 2:48
  8. "Ain't That Peculiar" – 3:00
  9. "It Takes Two" – 2:59
  10. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" – 2:28
  11. "Your Precious Love" – 3:05
  12. "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" – 2:21
  13. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" – 2:15
  14. "You're All I Need to Get By" – 2:51
  15. "You" – 2:27
  16. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" – 3:15
  17. "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" – 2:57
  18. "That's the Way Love Is" – 3:44
  19. "His Eye Is On The Sparrow" – 3:48

[edit] Disc Two

  1. "What's Going On" – 3:52
  2. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" – 3:13
  3. "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" – 5:28
  4. "You're the Man, Pts. I & II" – 5:48
  5. "Where Are We Going?" – 3:57
  6. "Trouble Man" – 3:51
  7. "Let's Get It On" – 4:53
  8. "Come Get to This" – 2:42
  9. "Distant Lover" (Live) – 6:19
  10. "I Want You" – 3:57
  11. "Got to Give It Up" – 11:53
  12. "Anger" – 4:03
  13. "Ego Tripping Out" – 7:14
  14. "Praise" – 4:53
  15. "Sexual Healing" – 3:59