MARVIN GAYE – MIDNIGHT LOVE LP – Nr MINT A1/B3 UK SOUL

Marvin Gaye – Midnight Love
(CBS Records  1982  85977)
Matrix No’s: A1/B3 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners and some wear on the back
Insert in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Marvin Gaye ( born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including “Ain’t That Peculiar”, “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles “Prince of Motown” and “Prince of Soul”.

Midnight Love is the seventeenth and final studio album by Marvin Gaye. He signed with the label Columbia in March 1982 following his exit from Motown. The final album to be released before his death, it ultimately became the most successful album of Marvin’s entire career.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Marvin Gaye, except where indicated.

1. “Midnight Lady” – 5:17
2. “Sexual Healing” (Odell Brown, Gaye, David Ritz) – 4:05
3. “Rockin’ After Midnight” – 6:04
4. “‘Til Tomorrow” – 4:57
5. “Turn On Some Music” – 5:08
6. “Third World Girl” – 4:36
7. “Joy” – 4:22
8. “My Love Is Waiting” (Gordon Banks) – 5:07

Personnel

• Marvin Gaye – vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, organ, drums, drum machine, drum programming, bells, glockenspiel, vibraphone, finger cymbals, bongos, congas
• Gordon Banks – guitar, bass, background vocals, drums, Fender Rhodes piano
• James Gadson – drums on “Midnight Lady”
• Bobby Stern – tenor saxophone, harmonica
• Joel Peskin – alto & tenor saxophone
• Harvey Fuqua – backing vocals on “Sexual Healing”, editing, mixing, production advisor
• David Stout and The L.A. Horn Section – horns
• Curt Sletten – trumpet
• Harry Kim – trumpet
• Alan Kaplan – trombone
• McKinley T. Jackson – horn arrangement

Technical

• Larkin Arnold – executive producer
• Mike Butcher – engineer, mixing
• Brian Gardner, Alan Zentz – mastering
• John Kovarek – engineer
• Henri Van Durme – engineer