Track Listing

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. What's Going On
3. Sexual Healing
4. You Are Everything - Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye
5. It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye, Kim Weston
6. Let's Get It On
7. Abraham, Martin & John
8. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
9. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
10. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
11. Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart) - Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye
12. You're All I Need To Get By - Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
13. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
14. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
15. The Onion Song - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
16. You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
17. Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
18. That's The Way Love Is
19. Got To Give It Up
20. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
21. Can I Get A Witness
22. Lucky Lucky Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1557 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 73 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Balancing raw power with shades of vulnerability, Gaye rose to the top of Motown's roster without the benefit of a supporting vocal group. Whether singing love songs or social commentary, Gaye's voice displays an earnestness and sincerity that are a soul singer's most potent weapons. Among these 47 hits are his memorable duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell along with Motown staples such as "Can I Get a Witness", "How Sweet It Is", "Ain't That Peculiar" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". This set also covers socially conscious 1970s originals such as "What's Going On", "Mercy, Mercy Me" and "Inner City Blues". Only his last hit, "Sexual Healing", is left out. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

Best single CD of Marvinýs music
You cannot fit all of Marvin's hits on a single CD but this collection has most of the essentials. From a British perspective, one advantage that this has over the double CD (Very best of, which was compiled in America but released in both the UK and USA) is that it includes three UK top ten hits that are not on the double CD, these being Onion song (supposedly with Tammi Terrell, though Tammi was too ill to record the song and a sound-alike substituted), You are everything (with Diana Ross) and Abraham Martin and John (which was an American hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, not Marvin Gaye).

There is no room on this CD to explore Marvin's career in depth, but it does contain all his important British hits (some minor hits have been omitted) and on that basis, it provides an excellent overview of Marvin's career. Nevertheless, before buying this, you may wish to compare it with the double CD, Very best of.

The true roots of R&B
This album brings us the type of music which has inspired a whole generation of HIP-HOP and R&B stars, you can tell as oon as you hear this album that Marvin Gaye was one of the greatest performers to ever grace the music scene! it includes clasics like Mercy Mercy Me and also some inspiring duets. This is an album for all ages and i doubt that no one who listens to it will say otherwise a truly clisic album bringing together some of the great man's biggest hits.