Track Listing

1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Harvey Fuqua, Tammi Terrell
2. You've Got What It Takes - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
3. If I Could Build My Whole World Around You - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
4. Something Stupid - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
5. Your Precious Love - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
6. Hold Me Oh My Darling - Harvey Fuqua, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
7. Two Can Have A Party - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
8. Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
9. If This World Were Mine - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
10. Sad Wedding - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
11. Give A Little Love - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
12. Oh How I'd Miss You - Hal Davis, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
13. Ain'T Nothing Like The Real Thing - Nickolas Ashford, Tammi Terrell, Valerie Simpson, Marvin Gaye
14. Keep On Lovin' Me Honey - Nickolas Ashford, Tammi Terrell, Valerie Simpson, Marvin Gaye
15. You're All I Need To Get By - Nickolas Ashford, Tammi Terrell, Valerie Simpson, Marvin Gaye
16. Baby Don't Cha Worry - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
17. You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
18. Give In, You Just Can't Win - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
19. When Love Comes Knocking At My Heart - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
20. Come On And See Me - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
21. I Can't Help But Love You - Robert Gordy, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
22. That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone) - Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye
23. I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby - Marvin Gaye, Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Tammi Terrell
24. Memory Chest - Harvey Fuqua, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42090 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Running time: 65 minutes

Customer Reviews

Their only two genuine duet albums
In theory, Marvin and Tammi recorded three albums together, but Tammi was desperately ill and dying at the time the third album was being recorded, so for most of it, Tammi was replaced by Valerie Simpson, although it was Tammi's name that appeared on the album and the singles that came from it. So the two albums featured on this collection are the only albums that Marvin and Tammi recorded together.

The first album, United, yielded three American hit singles - Ain't no mountain high enough (top twenty), Your precious love (top five) and If I could build my world around you (top ten). In Britain, only the last of these charted and even then it was only a minor hit. There are plenty of other great duets here including a cover of Nancy and Frank Sinatra's Something stupid.

The second album, You're all I need, yielded two American top ten hits - Ain't nothing like the real thing and You're all I need to get by - that also charted in Britain, though less successfully. Keep on loving me honey became an American top thirty hit. Its B-side, You ain't living till you're loving, became a British top thirty hit. As with the United album, there are plenty of great album cuts here.

Since I bought this collection, a double-CD has been released in both Britain and America titled The complete duets. The tracks on this set form the first 24 tracks of the first CD of that collection. The rest of that collection includes the so-called third duet album, plus some of Tammi's solo recordings and various alternate takes. If you just want the definitive versions of the songs that Marvin and Tammi recorded together, this twofer will be sufficient. I looked at the track listing of the other collection and the only important tracks not available here can be found on various other Motown compilations.

Beatiful songs, full of soul
This is a real gem of a CD. Tammi was, for me, the greatest of Marvin Gayes duet partners; there is a tangible frission between them on the love tunes, and they just rock on the up-beat numbers. It is true of both the albums joined together on this disc that the first half is better than the second - it's where the stronger material is - but that makes a nice dynamic to the whole disc. You know when the second album is starting. It's a great thing, this album.