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"One More Heartache" Single by Marvin Gaye from the album Moods of Marvin Gaye B-side "When I Had Your Love" Released January 1966 Format 7" single Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A) Genre Soul; pop; rock and roll Length 2:34 Label Tamla
T 54129Writer(s) Warren Moore
Smokey Robinson
Bobby Rogers
Marv TarplinProducer Smokey Robinson Marvin Gaye singles chronology "Ain't That Peculiar"
(1965)"One More Heartache"
(1966)"Take This Heart of Mine"
(1966)"One More Heartache" is a 1966 single recorded by Marvin Gaye for Motown Records' Tamla label. The single was written by the team of The Miracles members Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Pete Moore and Smokey Robinson and produced by Robinson.
This propulsive single discusses a man reaching the breaking point of his troubling relationship with his lover describing his pain in the relationship as if comparing a camel's broken back, a broken house of toothpicks and a busted balloon excluding that it only takes "one more heartache" for him to lose it. The song features rock guitar riffs from Tarplin, a saxophone solo from Thomas "Beans" Bowles, keyboards from Earl Van Dyke, bass from James Jamerson, and the vocals of Gaye and background session singers The Andantes.
The song was the third release and third consecutive Top 40 single from Gaye's Moods of Marvin Gaye album, and was produced with a similar sound to his hit "Ain't That Peculiar". "One More Heartache"was a Top 30 Pop hit, peaking at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a Top 10 R&B hit , peaking at number four on the R&B singles chart.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band covered "One More Heartache" in 1967. It was released by Elektra Records, both as a single and on the album The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw.
Credits
- Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
- Background vocals by The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow & Louvain Demps
- Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers and Marv Tarplin (of The Miracles) guitars
Marvin Gaye singles discography 1960s:
(Tamla)1961: "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide"
1962: "Sandman" · "Soldier's Plea" · "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" · "Hitch Hike"
1963: "Pride and Joy" · "Can I Get a Witness" · "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby"
1964: "You're a Wonderful One" · "Once Upon a Time" · "What's the Matter with You Baby" · "Try It Baby" · "Baby Don't You Do It" · "What Good Am I Without You" · "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
1965: "I'll Be Doggone" · "Pretty Little Baby" · "Ain't That Peculiar"
1966: "One More Heartache" · "Take This Heart of Mine" · "Little Darling (I Need You)" · "It Takes Two"
1967: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" · "Your Unchanging Love" · "Your Precious Love" · "You" · "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"
1968: "If This World Were Mine" · "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" · "You're All I Need to Get By" · "Chained" · "Keep On Lovin' Me Honey" · "You Ain't Livin' till You're Lovin'" · "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" · "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
1969: "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" · "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" · "That's the Way Love Is" · "Abraham, Martin and John" · "What You Gave Me" · "How Can I Forget"1970s:
(Tamla)1970: "Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" · "The Onion Song" · "California Soul" · "The End of Our Road"
1971: "What's Going On" · "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" · "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" · "Save the Children"
1972: "You're the Man" · "Trouble Man" · "I Want to Come Home for Christmas"
1973: "Let's Get It On" · "You're a Special Part of Me" · "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" · "Come Get to This"
1974: "You Sure Love to Ball" · "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" · "Don't Knock My Love" · "You Are Everything" · "Distant Lover"
1976: "I Want You" · "After the Dance"
1977: "Got to Give It Up"
1978: "Pops We Love You"
1979: "A Funky Space Reincarnation" · "Anger" · "Ego Tripping Out"1980s:
(Tamla/Columbia)1981: "Praise" · "Heavy Love Affair"
1982: "Sexual Healing"
1983: "My Love Is Waiting" · "'Til Tomorrow" · "Joy"Posthumous: 1985: "Sanctified Lady" · "It's Madness"
1986: "Just Like" · "The World Is Rated X"
1991: "My Last Chance"
1994: "Lucky, Lucky Me"
2001: "Music"
2005: "Let's Get It On (The M.P.G. Groove Remix)"Categories:- 1966 singles
- Marvin Gaye songs
- Songs written by Pete Moore
- Songs written by Bobby Rogers
- Songs written by Smokey Robinson
- Songs written by Marv Tarplin
- Motown singles
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