Marvin Gaye: Come Get to This

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Marvin Gaye: Come Get to This

Sun Nov 17th 2013 by abagond

Remarks:

This song went to #3 in 1973 on the American R&B charts. It is one of my all-time favourite Marvin Gaye songs. The song is from the “Let’s Get It On” album that came out that year. That whole album is a piece of gold, as is “What’s Going On” (1971). The song has been covered by Nancy Wilson and, as you can imagine, Joe.

Lyrics:

Girl, you’ve been gone away a real long time
Now I really went out of my mind
I miss your lovin’ when you left, baby you did
Ah baby, come here, let me caress you
Ah ah baby let us, ah tell me what you missed
Come here, sugar, and get to this
Ah baby, I want you here
I want to do something free to you
I want to feel what I’ve felt long
Ah baby, come get to thisOoo remember, baby, how you made me feel just like a king
Ah, I’ve been waiting
I’m ready for you to start doin’ the things
So I’ll know you’re mine
You’re so fine, so petite, oh candy sweet
Ah, I’ve been waiting
Come here, baby, get to thisYeah yeah yeah yeah
Sweet love, sweet love, oh so good
Get back here from the depths, we have to get back
Oh, nothin’s changed, you’re still sweet as the mornin’ rain
Girl, I’m standin’ ready to
Love you, babe, make it good to you

Ooo I need your love
Don’t make me wait, I can’t wait
Oh I’m so impatient for your love
Come here, sweet sweet baby, get to this

Girl, I know you’ve been gone a long time
You nearly blew my mind, baby
Girl, you’ve been gone for so long
I’m so glad, glad that you call me your baby
Oooo-eeee-oooo

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 14:22:43 Bulanik

Could this be one of my favourite Marvin songs? I LOVE it too, too much.
I truly believe I played this album so much, it damaged the vinyl it was pressed on – I believe this. I have at least 2 favourites from it.

I would play “Come Get to this”. Then, stop, and play this jewel: “If I Should Die Tonight”, and without fail, my heart would skip a beat at 1.31.
And again at 3.02 It still does when I play it:

If I Should Die Tonight:

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 14:37:51 Bulanik

The other stand-out from this album, for me, was “Distant Lover”.
The studio track is great, of course. Yet, when I heard the “live” version, so electric, so heartfelt building in intensity, it really lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-_yJZWytM

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 14:51:18 DeepFried_BlackmansHolyGrail

This and “Just to Keep you satisfied” is another good one in my opinion.

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 15:08:15 abagond

@ Bulanik

Same here. I used to play that album to death. I love “If I Should Die Tonight” even more than this one. It was one of the first songs I posted on this blog:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/marvin-gaye-if-i-should-die-tonight/

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 16:00:55 nomad

So many greats by Marvin. Don’t know how I missed these. My fav MG album: “Here My Dear”. Play it often. Played it yesterday.

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 16:35:29 mary burrell

@Bulanik: I love “Distant Lover” so much. That is my song. “SWOONS”

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 16:36:28 mary burrell

I like this one too, But “Distant Lover” takes me where I want to go. “YES”

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 16:40:18 Adeen

Beautiful song. My type of music!

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 16:40:27 mary burrell

Funky Space Reincarnation is HAWT! The television commercial with Charlize Theron, J’Dore perfume. That is a sexy song.

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 16:41:13 mary burrell

Marvin Gaye was just sexy period.

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 17:02:39 mary burrell

@Legion: We will have to RESPECTFULLY disagree sir, I stiil think “Funky Space Reincarnation sounds fresh and as ever as it did then.

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 17:17:47 Bulanik

The background story behind I Want You is captured in the line:
“Don’t play with something you should cherish for life’

This one sentence was about the relationship between Marvin met Janis (who became his 2nd wife and mother to Nona) when she was just a teenager. Wayward, and too immature to understand the seriousness of his love for her, the song is his appeal to her to recognize the depth of his feelings.
(Janis is the daughter of jazz musician “Slim” Gaillard, and I used to wonder about how the relationship with her own musical father impacted on her time with Marvin.)

“I Want You” is probably my Number One song from Marvin, for this reason ^^, and the Leon Ware intro — the most sensual ever! 😀

Marvin and Janis: http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Marvin_and_Jan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_life_of_Marvin_Gaye&h=364&w=435&sz=18&tbnid=7kRnTJT8-V_lqM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=108&zoom=1&usg=__GOCBsk4XseqFwa-HKQf4ArEbD5U=&docid=4kAYUvipjvONSM&sa=X&ei=R_eIUqGQM6id7gaV9oHQAw&ved=0CDIQ9QEwAg

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 17:26:43 mary burrell

@Legion : Big Cyber Smooch, MAWAH!!!

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 18:46:19 Bulanik

Comment in moderation about the background story to Marvin’s “I Want You”

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on Sun Nov 17th 2013 at 23:16:03 nomad

amazing songs. Yeah. And then he just lets the sax cut loose on that instrumental version. Ba-ad!

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on Thu Nov 21st 2013 at 20:41:14 Bulanik

@ Legion

Here My Dear…or should I say “Here, my dear” 😀
I am embarrassed to say that I did not take the time to listen to this all the way through (cringe). Perhaps, it was too personal, listening to Marvin deliver a product because he had been ordered to by the divorce court.
At the time when I first heard it, the emotions were so complicated and messy, I didn’t want to listen to the words, preferring to lose myself in the sound, but they kept on creeping through. Later I realized that emotions and relationships can be complicated and messy.

(It was like looking at the painting by a great artist, who whilst drunk on alcohol and bitterness, had nevertheless produced something by following numbers on his canvas….)

In “When did you stop loving me when did i stop loving you?”, the words go:
“If you loved me with all your heart, it wouldn’t take $1 million to part”, sung with maximum seductiveness.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ74DQ-HWxQ)

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