Diana Ross And Marvin Gaye - Diana Ross And Marvin Gaye (Music CD) available on May 27 2017 from Base for 5.29
Diana & Marvin available on February 28 2016 from Amazon for 1.95
UPC bar code 601215717327 ξ1 registered July 15 2017
UPC bar code 601215717327 ξ2 registered May 27 2017
UPC bar code 601215717327 ξ3 registered August 15 2015
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - R&B & Soul Audio
Manufacturered by Motown Records
Product weight is 0.21 lbs.
In the boxing world, it's called an overmatch. This 1973 artifact found Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross plugged into tracks by a half-dozen producers (including Gaye/Tammi Terrell masterminds Ashford & Simpson, Motown stalwart Hal Davis, and Berry Gordy himself). Although Gaye would later speak disdainfully of Ross to biographer David Ritz, and his richly emotive tone indeed sometimes mixes with her piping coos like oil with water, Diana & Marvin still proves hard to resist. Gaye's restraint is a fine thing to hear, and the two get fittingly touching material in two Stylistics covers and the wonderful single "My Mistake (Was to Love You)." (Never mind how unconvincing they sound on "I'm Falling in Love with You"; lie back and enjoy it.) More than a curio, less than a classic, the original album is augmented by four bonus tracks, three previously unreleased. --Rickey Wright
I've never understood why people make such a fuzz about the fact that most songs on Diana & Marvin were recorded separately. It's public knowledge that the pregnant Diana Ross did not want to share a recording booth with Marvin Gaye because he insisted on smoking weed while recording. Pop music is all about fantasy... the final product is all that counts. Many of the classic Marvin Gaye / Tammi Terrell duets were Terrell's solo recordings with Gaye's vocals bei..
