You're All I Need

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You're All I Need
Studio album by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Released	August 1968
Recorded	1966 - 1967
Genre	Soul
Label	Tamla TS 284
Producer	Harvey Fuqua Johnny Bristol Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson Robert Gordy
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Marvin Gaye chronology
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1967) You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell) (1968) In the Groove (I Heard It Through the Grapevine) (1968)
Tammi Terrell chronology
United (with Marvin Gaye) (1967) You're All I Need (with Marvin Gaye) (1968) Irresistible (1969)

You're All I Need was the second album by soul music duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, released by Tamla (Motown) Records in 1968. Entirely written and produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson (who composed three of the songs on the first Gaye/Terrell duets LP, United), You're All I Need features two Top 10 Billboard Pop Singles hits, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". It peaked at #60 on the Billboard Pop Album Charts.

Although it was the second of three official Gaye/Terrell albums released by Motown, You're All I Need is technically the duo's final album. The album was recorded in 1967 at about the time United was released. After recording You're All I Need, Tammi Terrell collapsed onstage while performing with Gaye at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and could no longer record nor perform live. The final Gaye/Terrell album, Easy, would be completed by having Valerie Simpson fill in for Tammi Terrell on most of the album's songs, and having Gaye overdub archived Terrell solo tracks for two tracksa. Rougly half of You're All I Need consists of Gaye overdubbing Terrell's solo recordings, as Terrell's illness prevented her from completing a full album.

The hit title track was later revived 25 years later as a duet between rapper Method Man and hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige. Their rendition, titled "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need", won Method Man and Blige a Grammy Award for Best Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1995.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
2. "Keep On Loving Me Honey" (Ashford, Simpson)
3. "You're All I Need to Get By" (Ashford, Simpson)
4. "Baby Doncha Worry" (Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers)
5. "You Ain't Livin' 'Til You're Lovin'" (Ashford, Simpson)
6. "Give In, You Just Can't Win" (Harvey Fuqua, Bristol)

[edit] Side two

1. "When Love Comes Knocking At Your Heart" (Fuqua, Bristol, Gladys Knight, Vernon Bullock)
2. "Come On and See Me" (Fuqua, Bristol)
3. "I Can't Help But Love You" (Robert Gordy, Thomas Kemp, Marvin Gaye)
4. "That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone)" (Fuqua, Bristol, Bullock)
5. "I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby" (Fuqua, Bristol, Beatrice Verdi)
6. "Memory Chest" (Fuqua, Bristol)

[edit] Production notes

Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson produced the singles "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", "Keep On Loving Me Honey", and "You're All I Need to Get By". ^[1] Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol produced the rhythm tracks and Terrell's vocal for "You Ain't Livin' 'Til You're Lovin'", with Ashford and Simpson completing the production and supervising Gaye's vocal. ^[1] Fuqua and Bristol also produced "I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby" and "Come On and See Me", while Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr.'s brother Robert Gordy produced "I Can't Help But Love You". ^[1]

Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol produced "Baby Dont'cha Worry", "Give In, You Just Can't Win", "When Love Comes Knocking At Your Heart", "That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone)", and "Memory Chest" as Tammi Terrell solo tracks in 1965 and 1966, and had Gaye overdub his vocals to them to create duet versions. ^[1]

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