Marvin Gaye – Let's Get It On (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
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Piano, lead vocals, background vocals (except B4) - Marvin Gaye [click here to see more vinyl featuring Marvin Gaye]
Background vocals - The Originals (B4)
Bass - James Jamerson, Wilton Felder
Bongos - Bobbye Hall Porter
Bongos, Drums - Eddie "Bongo" Brown
Drums - Paul Humphrey, Uriel Jones
Guitar - David T. Walker, Eddie Willis, Louis Shelton, Melvin Ragin, Robert White, Don Peake
Mallet percussion - Emil Richards
Percussion - Bobbye Hall Porter
Saxophone - Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson
Piano - Joe Sample, Marvin Jerkins
Vibraphone - Emil Richards, Victor Feldman
Orchestral arrangement, Conducting - David Van De Pitte (B1-4), Gene Page (B1), René Hall (A1-4), David Blumberg (B3)
Written by Marvin Gaye (all tracks), Ed Townsend (A1-4), Gwen Gordy (B2), Sandra Greene (B2), Anna Gordy-Gaye (B4), Elgie Stover (B4)
1 LP, gatefold jacket
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Gain 2™ Ultra Analog
Half-speed Mastering
Heavy Press : 180g High Definition vinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Record Technology Incorporated
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Tamla
Recorded June 1, 1970 – April 11, 1972 and February 1 – July 26, 1973 at Golden World, Detroit and Hitsville West, Los Angeles
Engineered by William McKeekin, Art Stewart, Steve Smith, Lawrence Miles, Cal Harris
Produced by Marvin Gaye, Ed Townsend (A1-4)
Mastered by Shawn R. Britton at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Photography by Jim Britt, Motown Archives
Originally released in August 1973
Reissued in 2008
Tracks:
Side A:
- Let's Get It On
- Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away)
- If I Should Die Tonight
- Keep Gettin' It On
Side B:
- Come Get To This
- Distant Lover
- You Sure Love To Ball
- Just To Keep You Satisfied
Awards:
In 2004, Let's Get It On was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
Time’s 100 Best Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 422/500
Reviews :
“After brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy. Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody. With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let's Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later -- much copied, but never imitated.” AllMusic Review by Jason Ankeny
Ultra Analog™ : The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ Series stems from the use of the Gain 2 system, mastered at half speed from the original master tapes where possible, capturing and uncovering as before undiscovered sonic information.
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs : 4.68 / 5