Marvin Gaye – Let's Get It On Label: Tamla – T 329V1, Tamla – T329V1
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Hollywood Pressing, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: Sep 1973
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
A1 Let's Get It On 4:44
A2 Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away) 3:32
A3 If I Should Die Tonight 3:57
A4 Keep Gettin' It On 3:12
B1 Come Get To This 2:40
B2 Distant Lover 4:15
B3 You Sure Love To Ball
Voice [Sex Voices] – Fred Ross (2), Madeline Ross
4:43
B4 Just To Keep You Satisfied 4:35
Record Company – Motown Record Corporation
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Motown Record Corporation
Copyright © – Motown Record Corporation
Lacquer Cut At – RCA Studios, Hollywood
Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood
Published By – Jobete Music Co., Inc.
Published By – Cherritown Music Co., Inc.
Arranged By – David Blumberg (tracks: B3), David Van DePitte (tracks: B1, B2, B4), Gene Page (tracks: B1), Rene Hall (tracks: A1 to A4)
Bass – James Jamerson, Welton Felder*
Bongos – Bobbye Hall Porter, Eddie "Bongo" Brown
Drums – Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Paul Humphries*, Uriel Jones
Engineer, Mixed By – Art Stewart, Cal Harris
Guitar – David T. Walker, Eddie Willis, Lewis Shelton*, Better Known As "Wah Wah"*, Melvin Ragin, Robert White
Liner Notes – Marvin Gaye
Mallets [Mallettes] – Emil Richards
Performer [Special Treatment] – Bobbye Hall Porter, Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson
Photography By – Jim Britt
Piano – Joe Sample, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Jenkins
Producer – Ed Townsend (tracks: A1 to A4), Marvin Gaye
Vibraphone [Vibes] – Emil Richards, Victor Feldman
Written-By – Anna Gaye* (tracks: B4), Ed Townsend (tracks: A1 to A4), Elgie Stover (tracks: B4), Gwen Gordy Fuqua (tracks: B2), Marvin Gaye, Sandra Greene (tracks: B2)
Hollywood pressing variant with artist, title and catalog number in bold text on labels, and trademark/phonographic copyright statement appears above title, unlike Let's Get It On.
"H" stamped in runouts denotes RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood, pressing. Remainder of runout data etched.
Catalog number on labels: T 329V1
Catalog number on front cover and spine: T329V1
Issued in a gatefold jacket.
USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH 'DEMO NOT FOR SALE' STICKER WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.
MATRIX: T̶3̶2̶8̶V̶1̶ -C5RS-7950-1 03B H T-329-V1 / T329V1 - C5RS-7951-2 03A H.
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, SOME CREASING ON RIGHT SIDE SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.
DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND A COUPLE OF FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.
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First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.
First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
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