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Marvin Gaye
The Complete Duets Collection
Marvin Gaye:  The Complete Duets Collection

$13.98 2-CD Set
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Released: 2001
Label: Motown
Selection #: 241976
Marvin and Tammi steam it up on 52 smoldering soul classics. You're All I Need To Get By, If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, etc.
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1 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
2 You Got What It Takes
3 If I Could Build My World Around You
4 Somethin' Stupid
5 Your Precious Love
6 Hold Me Oh My Darling
7 Two Can Have a Party
8 Little Boy, Little Ole Girl
9 If This World Were Mine
10 Sad Wedding
11 Give a Little Love
12 Oh How I'd Miss You
13 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
14 Keep on Lovin' Me Honey
15 You're All I Need to Get By
16 Baby Don'tcha Worry
17 You Ain't Livin Till You're Lovin'
18 Give In, You Just Can't Win
19 When Loves Comes Knocking at My Heart
20 Come on and See Me
21 I Can't Help But Love You
22 That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone)
23 I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby
24 Memory Chest
25 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing [Alternate Take][#]
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Most listeners will be satisfied enough with a best-of compilation to cover the work that Gaye and Terrell did together. Those who want to hear more should make "The Complete Duets" their next and only subsequent stop. The two-CD collection includes everything from their three Motown duet albums, along with the previously unreleased "We'Ll Be Satisfied," an alternate take of "Ain'T Nothing Like The Real Thing," and an alternate vocal of "Keep On Lovin' Me Honey." For good measure, the second half of disc two is devoted to rare solo Terrell sides. That includes four songs from 1965-1966 singles, including the non-LP B-side "Baby Don'Tcha Worry," all of which were also released as duets with added Gaye vocals; it sounds like they're trying to make her a mini-Mary Wells on "Hold Me Oh My Darling." There are also nine previously unreleased Terrell solo tracks (though all of the songs were also featured, with Gaye on duet vocals, on the Gaye-Terrell LPs). It would have been good for the otherwise satisfactory liner notes to include more specific details on those unreleased Terrell items, and in all the non-hits on the package are enjoyably generic late-'60s Motown, rather than being of particularly exceptional merit. At the same time, it's of reasonably strong consistency and a useful compendium of the total known output of one of soul's top duets. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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