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The 1995 re-issue deleted some of the duets from the other two releases and included material from Gaye's later period (1978–1981). The 1974 original, which charted, featured singles spanning from his 1962's "Stubborn" to material from his What's Going On album, while a 1986 re-issue featured songs from Let's Get It On, I Want You and duets with Diana Ross. His initial solo recording were not successful but he found success as a songwriter and session musician. The two-disc set contains most of his major hits (although the number one hit 'Let's Get It On' appeared only on CD editions of Anthology), including 'Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler),' 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),' 'I Heard It Through the. Biography: Marvin Gaye was an important Motown singer in the 1960s. Gaye's Anthology set was actually released a total of three times in different track listings. With Anthology you can get an overview of Gaye's Motown work without having to plunk the money down for The Marvin Gaye Collection boxed set. The anthology also covered a set of duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Tammi Terrell, and Diana Ross, as well as unreleased recordings from the 1960s and 1970s. While the newer compilation has the advantage of licensing Gaye's post-Motown smash "Sexual Healing" (which is missing from Anthology), it unfortunately contains 13 fewer tracks, making Anthology the preferred alternative if you can track it down.William "Mickey" Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson, Harvey Fuqua, Ashford & Simpson, Frank Wilson, Norman Whitfield, Marvin Gaye, Hal Davis, Leon Ware, Art StewartĪnthology: The Best of Marvin Gaye is a double CD chronology of American singer Marvin Gaye's career throughout his twenty-year tenure with Motown Records from his first big hit, 1962's " Stubborn Kind of Fellow", to his final Motown R&B charter, " Heavy Love Affair" in 1981. Unfortunately, Anthology has since gone out of print, to be replaced by the two-disc Very Best of Marvin Gaye. It's a rich, engaging listen from top to bottom, even with around 2 1/2 hours of music. If this disc can't reproduce the flowing, carefully calibrated moods of his albums from the period, it does touch upon every major facet of his '70s work - the urgent social commentary, the smoldering eroticism, the soul-baring confessions. Disc Two covers Gaye the visionary auteur, beginning with material from his epochal What's Going On LP. Kicking off with his first hit "Stubborn Kind of Fellow," Disc One traces Gaye's rise to stardom as part of the Motown hit machine, featuring 20 solo cuts from the '60s as well as seven of his most important duets with Tammi Terrell, Kim Weston, and Mary Wells. It's well-nigh impossible to encapsulate a career as lengthy and trailblazing as Gaye's on just one disc Anthology hits all the high points of the Motown years in a more concise fashion than the collector-oriented box set The Master, making it the best summation of Gaye's career yet released. Even so, it still stands as a near-definitive document. That first Anthology featured nothing from Let's Get It On or afterward the newest Anthology adds even more from that era while subtracting a bit from Gaye's earlier years, including a few of his numerous duets.
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The 1995 version of Anthology was remastered and slightly retooled from the 1986 reissue, which was in turn updated from the original triple-LP set Motown released in 1974.