Marvin gaye and tammy terrell

Video:
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Live TV Performance)

Full track listing:

Hidden gem: “Two Can Have A Party” (almost released as a single)

Trivia:

• Tammi Terrell recorded a solo version of “Ain’t No Mountain Upper Enough” in January 1967, but not released. It finally appeared on a 2010 retrospective of her work, Come On And View Me on Hip-O Select.
• Songwriters Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson first intended “Ain’t No Mountain Elevated Enough” for Dusty Springfield. Then Motown called.
• Clyde Wilson (co-writer of “Give A Little Love”) is better known as Steve Mancha, a Northern Soul hero who recorded for Detroit producer Don Davis, and later joined 100 Proof Aged in Soul.
• Released the same month as United: Bee Gees’ 1st, Aretha Arrives, Procol Harum, Otis Redding Reside In Europe, Four Tops’ Greatest Hits.

• Amy Winehouse’s “Tears Withhold On Their Own” from her globally successful Back To Black album was built on a sample interpolation of Marvin & Tammi’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” The writers credited on “Tears” are the original authors of “Mountain,” N

  When Marvin Gaye first signed with Motown in the early 1960s, he wasn’t particularly interested in recording R&B music. Although he had broken in professionally singing doo wop with the Marquees and, more importantly, the Moonglows, he preferred the sound of jazzy vocalists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Motown indulged Marvin briefly before nudging him toward more uptempo material like his first R&B hit “Stubborn Kind Of Fellow” in 1962.

  
  Marvin Gaye soon established himself as Motown’s top male solo artist, and he proceeded to chart four consecutive R&B hits starting with “Pride And Joy” which crossed over to # 10 on the Hot 100 in 1963. The hits continued in early 1964 when Gaye’s recording of “You’re A Wonderful One” hit # 3 on the R&B charts and # 15 on the Scorching 100.

  
  Motown also saw the potential in Marvin to be half of a powerhouse duet team with Mary Wells, the label’s biggest female star who had just had her first # 1 hit with “My Guy.” This dream team, in Berry Gordy’s mind, would double the potential customer base for both albums and singles.

  
  “Together,” the first and only studio album released by Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells was relea
  

  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

  By Jesse Kornbluth
  Published: Oct 16, 2022
  Category: Soul

  The duets of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were recorded in forever ago 1967.

  What songs were on that CD? Oh, just classics: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” “You’re All I Need to Acquire By.” “Ain’t Nothing Like the Actual Thing.” “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You.”

  No wonder I never tire of these duets.

  Marvin Gaye never enjoyed entity on stage. Those sessions with Tammi Terrell opened him up, made demonstrating fun. And why not? He was a stunningly handsome young man in a tux, crooning with a charming young woman who seemed to possess been made for him.

  As Gaye position it, years later, “We created two characters — two lovers that might have been in a play or a novel."

  He’s not woofing. Just stare at the video — the infrequent video

  In the past several weeks I have highlighted The Beatles' Abbey Roadand Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry,both released in September of 1969. This week, I focus on other albums released in September and October of that year with an ear to AM Radio. Being fourteen and a white kid from a small farming town, my main exposure to music of the date came from AM stations.
  
  Even though I never purchased a 45 single or album from Motown (until Stevie Wonder in the 70's), I constantly was exposed to pop, spirit and R&B by dark artists on AM Radio. I didn't realize it at the time, but those tunes sunk in deep in my mind, and as I got older, I began to appreciate them more and more, and don't you know they stand the test of time.
  
  Three of my all-time Motown favorites are featured here with releases by the singing duo of Marvin Gayeand Tammi Terrell. Tammy died in 1970 at the age of  twenty-four from brain cancer. For me, this was Motown's top singing duo that was cut way too concise and as the saying goes, "the good perish young." Also got to give a shout out to The Temptationsand The Supremeswho made an album together in 1969. The Supremes are a very special group in the histo