The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (1994 album)

Album infobox
Name = The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (1994)
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Marvin Gaye


Background =
Released = 1994
Recorded = 1962 - 1982
Genre = R&B/soul/funk
Label = Motown
Producer = Marvin Gaye, Norman Whitfield, Ashford & Simpson, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Hal Davis
Last album = "The Norman Whitfield Sessions"
(1994)
This album = "The Very Best of Marvin Gaye"
(1994)
Next album = "Anthology"
(1995)

"The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" is a 1994 UK-only greatest hits album by Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label.

Sales

"The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" is the best-selling as well as highest charting Marvin Gaye album in the United Kingdom ever, selling over 250,000 copies and peaking at #3 in the UK charts, respectively.

This albums remains a constant best-seller in the UK and Europe where it received a million-plus sales certificate in 2001. It even featured a single-release that had modest chart success, namely Gaye's lost 1964 single, "Lucky, Lucky Me", This album contained several UK and European single releases that had not the same chart success in the US and vice versa. E.g. the UK Top 10 hits You Are Everything" (w/Diana Ross), The Onion Song" (w/Tammi Terrell), and finally his seminal solo effort "Abraham, Martin & John"

Track listing

#"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
#"What's Going On"
#"Sexual Healing"
#"You Are Everything" (w/Diana Ross)
#"It Takes Two" (w/Kim Weston)
#"Let's Get It On"
#"Abraham, Martin & John"
#"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
#"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"
#"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
#"Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" (w/Diana Ross)
#"You're All I Need to Get By" (w/Tammi Terrell)
#"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (w/Tammi Terrell)
#"Wherever I Lay My Hat"
#"The Onion Song" (w/Tammi Terrell)
#"You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'" (w/Tammi Terrell)
#"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" (w/Tammi Terrell)
#"That's the Way Love Is"
#"Got to Give It Up, Pt. I"
#"When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You"
#"Can I Get a Witness"
#"Lucky, Lucky Me"