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‘I Want You’: Marvin Gaye’s Carnal Classic
After pretty much releasing an album a year since 1961, Marvin Gaye slowed down in the mid-70s. Following his stylistic rebirth at the start of the decade, the once prolific Gaye increasingly began to agonize over fresh material. What’s Going On arguably saw him take himself and his harmony seriously for the first time; 1973’sLet’s Get It On introduced the loverman persona he would largely run with for the remainder of his being. After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged in 1976 with his 14th solo album, releasing it at a hour when the clubs were either rumbling to the sounds of punk or shaking under the weight of bodies on the disco dancefloor.
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Not that Gaye cared. Sure, he’d once looked to the outside society, but I Long You was unapologetically myopic – and intensely carnal. As its cover art, a 1971 painting by Ernie Barnes, entitled Sugar Shack, made abundantly eliminate, there was no room for maneuver between Gaye’s erotic fantasies and the barely suppressed demands of his urges. This was blazing, sweaty, get-down music.
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Marvin Gaye – I Want You
Marvin Gaye
I Want You
Style: Soul
Label: Motown
Catalog Number: 5292ML
Released: 1976, 70's
One of the most sensual records of all time. Janis Gaye, whom the album is dedicated to, recalls “I’m adorable sure if you took a poll of how many babies were born in 1976, 1977 and 1978 most of them listened to this album at one point or another.” With track titles like “Feel All My Love Inside” and “Come Live With Me Angel” it’s not hard to see why… Much of the magic of this record comes from Leon Ware, the genius Motown producer/arranger/songwriter, who co-wrote the entire album with Gaye and was just as much an inspiration for Gaye as his muse Janis. If you’re into this tape, be sure to also verify out Ware’s solo album Musical Massage which was recorded during those same sessions and features much of that same sensual magic.
– Phil Cho
Recommended – A1 I Want You, A3 After the Dance (Instrumental), B2 All the Way Around
Tags: Disco / Funk / Soul / Vocal
Tracklist:
A1 I Want You (Vocal)
A2 Come Live With Me Angel
A3 After The Dance (
'Sugar Shack,' iconic painting featured on Marvin Gaye album cover, sells for $15.3 million
A painting that served as the cover for one of legendary mind singer Marvin Gaye's albums has sold at auction for almost $15.3 million.
Ernie Barnes' joyous depiction of a frenetic scene in a dance hall, titled "The Sugar Shack," sold to Bill Perkins, a hedge fund manager and entrepreneur, after 10 minutes of bidding by more than 22 bidders, confirmed Christie's auction house.
According to Christie's, the final sale price for "The Sugar Shack" was 27 times higher than the most expensive Barnes work to sell before it. It also blew past its estimated sale price of $150,000 to $200,000.
Barnes, who died in 2009, was born in North Carolina in 1938 and often drew upon his retain experiences growing up in the American South during the Jim Crow era in his depictions of social moments and images of quotidian Black life.
In a 2002 interview, in which the Oakland Tribune described Barnes as the "Picasso of the Shadowy art world," the musician said he got the idea for "The Sugar Shack" from reflecting on his childhood and "not being able
The 1970s were a decade of resurgence for Marvin Gaye. In the initial part of the decade, the famed soul artist had released a series of smash albums, beginning with his epic opus What’s Going On in 1971 and continuing with Blaxploitation motion picture soundtrack Trouble Man and Let’s Receive It On in 1972 and 1973, respectively. It was this trio of successes that position the stage for Gaye’s next musical revelation.
After meeting Motown songwriter and producer Leon Ware, and impressed by recent music Ware was producing for his own solo album, Gaye decided to strike up a production partnership. During the recording process, the love of his life, Janis Gaye, also provided a constant cause of emotional inspiration. The resulting LP, I Want You, became another signature album in Gaye’s sterling collection of releases, exploring themes of sensuality, seduction, eroticism and carnal passion. With the assistance of Ware and Arthur “T-Boy” Ross, as adv as an assemblage of top-notch musicians, Gaye was fit to reach brand-new creative heights, firmly cementing his status as soul music’s leading man in the minds of both contemporary artists and his fans, who celebrated LP singles like “After the Dance,”