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Love Starved Heart-Expanded Edition

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Just great, great songs. Essential if you're more than a casual Gaye fan. Unfathomable these have been unreleased until now.

THE BOOK THAT ACCOMPANIES THIS COLLECTION TELLS US THAT WITH THE CONTSTANT RECORDING THAT WENT ON AT MOTOWN, THERE WAS SIMPLY AN OVERABUNDANCE OF MATERIAL ON HAND. SO, WE FANS OF MARVIN GAYE ARE THE WINNERS WITH THIS COLLECTION OF UNRELEASED GEMS. LISTENING TO THIS, IT'S TRULY UNFATHOMABLE THE SKILL AND RANGE THAT MARVIN POSSESSED. AMAZING TOO, IS THE SKILL MOTOWN HAD IN ITS WRITERS AND PRODUCERS; IVY JOE HUNTER PROVIDES MARVIN WITH SOME OF THE MOST HEART-WRENCHING SONGS EVER: LISTEN TO "I CAN'T HELP IT (I LOVE YOU SO.) THEN, TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD (A LITTLE), PLAY "SAD SOUVENIRS." SMOKEY ROBINSON PROVIDES THE GEM "BABY I'M GLAD THAT THINGS WORKED OUT SO WELL." MARVIN TRULY WAS THE PRINCE OF MOTOWN, AND YOU'LL BE SOLD WITH ONE LISTEN OF THIS CD!

A great work of Marvin Gaye. A lot of his early work that has previously never been released. Sounds like it was recorded yesterday. Highlights Marvins beautiful voice which is one of the best ever. I highly recommend this album. Over 25 songs.

Forget trying to understand why these songs were not previously released - the fact that these great songs can now be enjoyed is all that matters! I thank Motown from the bottom of my soul for this compilation.

Again, Marvin proves to be a great artist! You can tell from these recordings that he was going places and beyond expectation. Some of these recordings, like "Baby I'm Glad That Things Worked Out So Well" were on the Motown Masters release, which came out sometime in the mid-80s. But, this version is far better than the Motown Masters release.

This is great! The first song just does it for me, as well as 'Son of a Gun', just magic! Not the power or importance of subject of 'What's Going On', or funky like 'Trouble Man' this is pure sexyness on CD! It sounds like sweet as honey ans soft as really really soft things!

Marvin Gaye had little regard for the bulk of his Sixties output, dismissing it as "assembly line" material. It's a shame he felt that way because he was such a gifted performer. This underrated underpromoted gem blew me away. I *love* the early Motown sound and this set added to the incredible output for which the Motown Sound was known and is remembered. This will stack up against anything Marvin had released--and, for that matter, the Four Tops, Temptations, and Stevie Wonder--from the same period. Download some of the samples and see if you don't agree. Excellent liner notes as well.

There's been plenty of Marvin Gaye "hits" collections to go around in every conceivable audio format. And piles of praise has generally been afforded Gaye's seventies output from critics and groovemasters alike. Yet, in a succession of labels maintaining the Motown catalog, MCA, Polygram, and now, Universal, a majority of Gaye's album output from the sixties has been given short shift. While the artistic struggle between Gaye and the Motown machinery has been well-documented, a whole generation of CD fans have only pieces of the story, and aren't able to hear the album releases for what they were. When Gaye took a standard-stock Motown song that'd been passed around through other artists, there was always something - in register or intonation - that strained the mould. Gaye could never simply cover a song, he was a true interpreter. As Gaye recorded material by the lesser-known Motown songwriters, he abandoned much in the name of artistic progress, leaving many unpolished jewels behind. Fans will revel in the release of "Love Starved Heart," and the curious will take notice. If these are leftovers, just imagine what we're all missing by not having Gaye's original albums in-print on CD.

There's been plenty of Marvin Gaye "hits" collections to go around in every conceivable audio format. And piles of praise has generally been afforded Gaye's seventies output from critics and groovemasters alike. Yet, in a succession of labels maintaining the Motown catalog, MCA, Polygram, and now, Universal, a majority of Gaye's album output from the sixties has been given short shift. While the artistic struggle between Gaye and the Motown machinery has been well-documented, a whole generation of CD fans have only pieces of the story, and aren't able to hear the album releases for what they were. When Gaye took a standard-stock Motown song that'd been passed around through other artists, there was always something - in register or intonation - that strained the mould. Gaye could never simply cover a song, he was a true interpreter. As Gaye recorded material by the lesser-known Motown songwriters, he abandoned much in the name of artistic progress, leaving many unpolished jewels behind. Fans will revel in the release of "Love Starved Heart," and the curious will take notice. If these are leftovers, just imagine what we're all missing by not having Gaye's original albums in-print on CD.

anything that comes from this Genius gets my Attention from jump.hearing that Motown had unreleased tracks from him got me happy to get this disc.and it is a winner.instead of Motown trying to promote Marvin 60 they should have pushed this one harder cuz it has gems all over it.you can't say enough about the Genius of his talent.i'm glad i have this disc.i hope there's more to come? his voice&music are timeless.