Got To Give It Up (Parts 1 & 2) - Marvin Gaye (1977)

"Got To Give It Up" is a 1977 hit single recorded by American soul music legend Marvin Gaye. The song held the number one position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for one week, from June 18, 1977 to June 25. On the R&B Singles Charts it held the number one spot for five weeks. On the disco charts the single was also a number one hit. The song, solely written by Gaye and produced by Art Stewart, is about a man who was too shy to get on the floor and dance. But the groove allows him to lose himself in the music and dance, connecting with the people around him. Initially "Got To Give It Up" in its 11-minutes-plus version was included as the final side of his 1977 double-album live collection, "Live At The London Palladium". The song was issued as an edited four minutes-plus-release, titled "Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1" and became Gaye's biggest hit, with sales exceeding two million copies, since his seminal 1973 anthem, "Let's Get It On". The single reached number one simultaneously on Billboard's pop, R&B and dance singles charts and continued the singer's embrace of disco music following the release of 1976's "I Want You". The song helped Gaye's live album, "Live At The London Palladium", which also featured the song in its full entirety, reach the top five of the albums chart and helped it become one of the best-selling albums of that year while "Got To Give It Up" was one of the best-selling singles of that year. The song became a precursor to the familiar percussion-led, falsetto-sung, party-fill atmosphere of Michael Jackson's 1979 hit "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". The chant "Let's dance/Let's shout/Get funky what it's all about!", appearing in the latter part of the original track, was also appropriated for the chorus of The Jacksons' 1979 hit "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)". Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 -- April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties. Because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell, he was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". His mid-1970s work including the "What's Going On", "Let's Get It On" and "I Want You" albums helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early eighties, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the "Midnight Love" album before his death. Gaye was tragically shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984. He was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye #6 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time, and ranked #18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. This channel is dedicated to all the great 'old school' R&B music I grew up with, the stuff that originally made me tap my feet and want to be a DJ. Funk, soul, disco, R&B, dance, hip-hop, pop . . . 60s, 70s, 80s . . . whatever you call it, it's all 'Old School' and it's all here!

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