Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1: 1. Let's Get It On 2. Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away) 3. If I Should Die Tonight 4. Keep Gettin' It On 5. Come Get to This 6. Distant Lover 7. You Sure Love to Ball 8. Just to Keep You Satisfied 9. Song #3 - (TRUE instrumental) 10. My Love Is Growing 11. Cakes - (TRUE instrumental) 12. Symphony - (undubbed version) 13. I'd Give My Life For You - (alternate mix) 14. I Love You Secretly - (with The Miracles) 15. You're the Man - (alternate-version 1) 16. You're the Man - (alternate-version 2) 17. Symphony - (demo vocal)
DISC 2: 1. Let's Get It On - (demo) 2. Let's Get It on Pt. 2 (A.K.A Keep Gettin' It On) - (complete) 3. Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away) - (alternate mix) 4. If I Should Die Tonight - (demo) 5. Come Get to This - (alternate mix) 6. Distant Lover - (alternate vocal) 7. You Sure Love to Ball - (alternate mix) 8. Just to Keep You Satisfied - (a cappella with alternate vocal) 9. Just to Keep You Satisfied - (1970, with The Originals) 10. Just to Keep You Satisfied - (1968, with The Monitors) 11. Where Are We Going? - (alternate mix) 12. World Is Rated X, The - (alternate mix) 13. I'm Gonna Give You Respect 14. Try It, You'll Like It 15. You Are That Special One 16. We Can Make It Baby 17. Running From Love - (instrumental-version 1) 18. Mandota - (TRUE instrumental) 19. Running From Love - (instrumental-version 2) 20. Come Get to This
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Herbie Hancock, The Miracles, The Originals | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | This 2-CD deluxe edition of LET'S GET IT ON features various session recordings leading up to or associated with the landmark 1973 release, which is also included in its original form. Personnel includes: Marvin Gaye (vocals, piano); Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin, Don Peake, Arthur Wright, Louis Shelton, David T. Walker, Robert White, Eddie Willis (guitar); Plas Johnson, Bill Green, Ernie Fields, Buddy Collete, Ernie Watts (saxophone, flutes); Chuck Findley (trumpet); George Bohannon (trombone); Joe Sample, Marvin Jenkins, Herbie Hancock (piano); Earl Van Dyke, Johnny Griffith (keyboards); Emil Richards, Victor Feldman (vibraphone); Wilton Felder, James Jamerson (bass); Paul Humphrey, Uriel Jones (drums); Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Bobbye Hall Porter (congas, bongos); The Miracles; The Originals; The Monitors. Producers include: Marvin Gaye, Ed Townsend, David Van DePitte, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch. Principally recorded between 1970 and 1973. LET'S GET IT ON originally released on Tamla (329). Includes liner notes by Ed Townsend, David Ritz, Ben Edmonds and Harry Weinger. All tracks have been digitally remastered.
| | Editorial reviews | 3 stars out of 5 - ...His deliberations on the boundaries between love and sex are beautifully sung... Uncut (05/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...A perfect seduction-groove record... Rolling Stone (01/23/2003)
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