Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell Easy

1969 studio anthology past Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Easy
Studio anthology by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Released	September 16, 1969
Recorded	1969
Studio	Hitsville, Us, Detroit, Michigan
Genre	Soul
Label	Tamla TS 294
Producer	Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson Harvey Fuqua Johnny Bristol
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell chronology
You're All I Need (1968) Easy (1969) Greatest Hits (1970)
Marvin Gaye chronology
Yard.P.M. (1969) Easy (1969) That'southward the Way Love Is (1970)
Tammi Terrell chronology
Irresistible (1969) Easy (1969) Greatest Hits (1970)
Singles from Easy
"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come up By" Released: January 14, 1969 "What You Gave Me" Released: November half-dozen, 1969 "The Onion Song" Released: March xx, 1970

Piece of cake is an album recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and released by Motown Records on September 16, 1969 under the Tamla Records label. One song on the album, "Proficient Lovin' Ain't Piece of cake To Come By", was a striking single and remains popular to this mean solar day. Terrell had been ill, suffering from complications acquired past a brain tumor, since the fall of 1967. Marvin Gaye later on claimed that as a result, most of the female person vocals on this album were performed by Valerie Simpson, who served every bit co-songwriter and co-producer for the LP with her beau and future husband Nickolas Ashford.^[1]

Simpson is quoted in Ludie Montgomery's biography of Terrell, My Sister Tommie, as not having subbed Terrell for vocals. Simpson over again explicitly denied having done so in the liner notes to The Complete Motown Singles series.^[two] On the docuseries Unsung about Terrell, Simpson admitted she sang with Gaye during sessions saying, "I sang things with Marvin because Tammi was not available. And, then we would bring Tammi in to go over her parts. Those are Tammi Terrell vocals because we know that nosotros went back in with Tammi and got what we needed."

Gaye at the time criticized Motown for the album thinking they were taking advantage of Terrell's wellness. Motown assured him proceeds from the album would go to Terrell's family for insurance of her health. At the fourth dimension the anthology was released, Terrell was on her seventh operation to cure the brain tumor that would eventually impale her after the eighth operation. The album was released on meaty disc in 1992, and over again in 2001 equally part of The Complete Duets.

Track listing [edit]

All tracks written past Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson except where noted.

Side one [edit]

1. "Good Lovin' Own't Like shooting fish in a barrel to Come By" ii:30
2. "California Soul" 2:55
3. "Love Woke Me Upwards This Morning" two:34
4. "This Poor Heart of Mine" ii:45
5. "I'm Your Puppet" (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) 3:02
6. "The Onion Song" three:01

Side two [edit]

1. "What You Gave Me" ii:47
2. "Baby I Demand Your Loving" (Holland-Dozier-Kingdom of the netherlands) iii:xv
3. "I Can't Believe You Dear Me" (Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol) 2:47
4. "How You lot Gonna Go along It (After You Get It)" ii:55
5. "More than, More, More than" (Fuqua, Bristol, Clyde Wilson) ii:32
6. "Satisfied Feelin'" 2:58

Product notes [edit]

All tracks were produced by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson save for "I Can't Believe You Love Me" and "More, More, More".^[1] These two recordings, produced past Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol, were Terrell solo tracks with Gaye'south vocals overdubbed.^[1]

Personnel [edit]

• Marvin Gaye – lead vocals
• Valerie Simpson – lead vocals with additional groundwork vocals
• Tammi Terrell – pb vocals with additional background vocals
• The Originals – background vocals
• The Andantes – groundwork vocals
• The Spinners – groundwork vocals
• The Funk Brothers – instrumentation

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Chin, Brian (2001). Liner notes for Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: The Complete Duets. New York: Motown Records/UMG Recordings.
2. ^ The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. nine: 1969 (Motown/Hip-O Select, 2008

Farther reading [edit]

• Ritz, David. Divided Soul: the Life of Marvin Gaye (originally published in 1985; 2003 edition ISBN 0-306-81191-X) (For this volume, Gaye told Ritz that Simpson subbed for Terrell on Easy.)
• Montgomery, Ludie. My Sister Tommie: the Real Tammi Terrell (2005, ISBN 1-904408-16-8) (In this book, Simpson denies subbing for Terrell.)
• Hughes, Keith & Dahl, Pecker. The Consummate Motown Singles, Vol. 9: 1969 (2008) (Simpson again denies subbing for Terrell, except for some early guide vocals; she suggests this is what Marvin later remembered when speaking to Ritz.)

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