That's the Way Love Is (album)

Infobox Album | Name = That's the Way Love Is
Type = Album
Artist = Marvin Gaye


Released = January 8, 1970
Recorded = 1969
Genre = Soul, psychedelic soul
Length =
Label = Tamla
Producer = Norman Whitfield
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifuxqu5ld6e link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/marvingaye/albums/album/137612/review/5940341/thats_the_way_love_is link]
Last album = "Easy" (with Tammi Terrell)
(1969)
This album = "That's the Way Love Is"
(1970)
Next album = "What's Going On"
(1971) |

"That's the Way Love Is" is an album by soul musician Marvin Gaye,released January 8, 1970 on the Tamla (Motown) label. Built off the success of the title track (#7 Pop; #2 R&B in late-1969) originally taken from "M.P.G.", and much like Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" after its success, was released with intent to sell albums based on the success of one particular single (a Motown trademark). Gaye was showing signs of disillusionment from the label's powers-that-be mentality but it didn't affect the singer's performance as he gave a powerful vocal in the title track and was especially impressive with his version of The Beatles' "Yesterday". It also features the modest hits, "Gonna Give Her All the Love I Got" and "How Can I Forget". It also featured Gaye's classic rendition of the socially-conscious tune, "Abraham, Martin & John" which became a huge hit on the other side of the Atlantic, peaking at #9 in the UK in June 1970. the single is widely regarded as a hint of what would follow a year later with his epochal "What's Going On". He also covered The Temptations' hits "I Wish It Would Rain" and "Cloud Nine".

Track listing

#"Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" (originally by Jimmy Ruffin) (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)
#"Yesterday" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
#"Groovin'" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere)
#"I Wish It Would Rain" (originally by The Temptations) (Roger Penzabene, Strong, Whitfield)
#"That's the Way Love Is" (Strong, Whitfield)
#"How Can I Forget" (Strong, Whitfield)
#"Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)
#"Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love" (Strong,Whitfield)
#"No Time for Tears" (Holland, Whitfield)
#"Cloud Nine" (originally by The Temptations) (Strong, Whitfield)
#"Don't You Miss Me a Little Bit Baby" (Penzabene, Strong, Whitfield)
#"So Long" (Eddie Holland, Dean Taylor, Whitfield)

Credits

*Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
*Background vocals by The Andantes: Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks and Louvain Demps; and The Originals: Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Henry Dixon and C.P. Spencer
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers