Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear
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Artist: Marvin GayeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-04-05
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- Here, My Dear
- I Met a Little Girl
- When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
- Anger
- Is That Enough
- Everybody Needs Love
- Time to Get It Together
- Sparrow
- Anna's Song
- When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You [Instrumental]
- A Funky Space Reincarnation
- You Can Leave, But It's Going to Cost You
- Falling in Love Again
- When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)
Free Music Notes for Here My Dear
Free Music Review: A musical alimony!
Hit: 5 Stars
`Here my dear' was Marvin Gaye's contractual double album (single CD) to his ex wife (and sister to label boss) Anna Gordy. On a judge's order, Marvin was to hand over his $305,000 advance plus the first $295,000 of earnings from his next album to her.
A disappointed Marvin wanted to make a quickie record, one he wouldn't have to break his neck recording. This should have resulted in a sub par recording. However, he found himself giving more and more of himself as the recording progressed.
What we got instead is similar musically to `What's going on' and `Let's get it on' (a bit); layered vocals, wah wah guitars, rich percussion, lots of sax and spoken lyrics. A generally uncommercial jazzy sound with some funk sprinkled in the mix, and verbose songs sprawling past 70 minutes, some melancholic sounding, but some bouncy, sunny songs too.
And deeply personal lyrics chronicling the breakdown of his relationship with Anna: anger, struggle, the end of love, attorney fees, right back to falling in love again. Even the artwork reflects this; the board game showing a male hand giving a female hand a record on the inner sleeve photo, and the scales of justice.
Largely overlooked by the public (much to Marvin's delight), it made #26 pop, #4 soul in the US. I have to confess, I listened to this album for the first time ever this week.
Opening track `Here my dear' is a mostly spoken do wop sounding song, with layered vocals, and Marvin singing in a lower register for the most part. Cutting lyrics like `This is what you want/so I've conceded/I hope it makes you happy/there's a lot of truth in it baby'.
`I met a little girl' has Marvin singing in falsetto to both Anna and his new woman to a do wop sounding back drop.
`When did you stop loving me, when did I stop loving you' has a very vulnerable sounding Marvin in a choir boy falsetto set to soothing backing vocals, darting horns, and delicate percussion. `If I love again, I'm going to try a new way' he sings. Outstanding!
`Anger' is a funky retro sounding ditty with rolling percussion and lyrics about both parties saying things they wish they hadn't said in anger. Similar musically is `Funky space reincarnation' (#23 on the black singles chart) with rolling guitars.
`Is that enough' has Marvin painfully questioning why he has to pay attorney fees, to a sax drenched, percussion rich mid-tempo beauty. One of my favourites.
Other standouts are the delicate `Everybody needs love' (about how everybody and everything needs love, including Marvin himself; reminds me a bit of `Let's get it on'), the awesome `Time to get it together' (featuring great harmonizing, bubbling bass, congas and fantastic guitar - another favourite), the stunning jazzy ballad `Sparrow' (with simply astounding vocal layering and great sax), `Anna's song' (I love the way he hit and held a high note while singing `Ann-aaaa..'), and `You can leave, but it's going to cost you'.
`Falling in love again' is a song about falling in love again after telling love to leave him alone. A sunny, bouncy jazzy ballad with a passionate vocal delivery, great keyboards and backing vocals. A beautiful end to the tale.
Yes, I know everyone else has said this, but I must say this is a masterpiece, up there with `What's going on'. A glimpse into the tortured, but beautiful soul of Gaye. A hidden gem I would urge everyone to unearth.
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