Together (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Together
Type = Album
Artist = Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells


Released = April 15, 1964
Recorded = February-April 1963, Hitsville, USA, Detroit, Michigan
Genre = Soul
Length = 24:38
Label = Motown
MT-613
Producer = William "Mickey" Stevenson
Clarence Paul
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zt2m963o3epf link]
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Marvin Gaye
Type = studio
Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(1963)
This album = "Together"
(1964)
Next album = "Hello Broadway"
(1964) Extra chronology 2
Artist = Mary Wells
Type = studio
Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(1964)
This album = "Together"
(1964)
Next album = "Mary Wells"
(1965)

"Together" was the first and only album released by the duo team of American Motown artists Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells. It was released on Motown's Tamla label on April 15th, 1964. The album brought together the rising star Gaye with Wells, an established star with a number-one pop hit to her name (1964's "My Guy"), in hopes that Gaye would benefit from the exposure.

This album became the first charted album credited to Gaye, peaking at #42 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart and yielding two Top 20 singles, "Once Upon a Time" and "What's the Matter With You Baby". Shortly afterwards, Wells, who was frustrated with the direction the label wanted her to go, left Motown. The label had to find another duet partner for Gaye, enlisting Kim Weston for one album, ("Take Two"), but later yielding a longer-lasting paring of Gaye with Tammi Terrell.

Track listing

#"Once Upon a Time" (Barney Ales, Dave Hamilton, Clarence Paul, William "Mickey" Stevenson) 2:32
#"'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) 2:53
#"Until I Met You" (Sandra Greene, Don Wolf) 3:21
#"Together" (Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) 2:42
#"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (William Best, Deek Watson) 2:35
#"The Late, Late Show" (Roy Alfred, Murray Berlin) 2:42
#"After the Lights Go Down Low" (Phil Belmonte, Leroy Lovett, Allen White) 2:53
#"Just Squeeze Me (Don't Tease Me)" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines) 2:32
#"What's the Matter With You Baby?" (Ales, Paul, Stevenson) 2:24
#"You Come a Long Way from St. Louis" (John Brooks, Bob Russel) 2:52

Credits

*Lead (and additional background) vocals by Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells
*Background vocals by The Love Tones and The Andantes
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers