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With the help of producer and songwriter Ed Townsend, Gaye created a masterpiece of erotic persuasion that topped the pop and R&B charts.

The singer hoped “Let’s Get It On” didn’t “advocate promiscuity,” but also said he felt the song might have “some aphrodisiac power.”

When Gaye’s father heard it, who would later go on to murder his son, called him and said, “Please, please, don’t go any further.

Marvin Gaye Live! features hits like “Trouble Man,” “Distant Lover,” and “What’s Going On.”

Watch the new video for Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” now.

The video is out now via Motown/UMe.

In 1971, Gaye released his 11th studio album, the self-produced What’s Going On.

The socially-conscious concept album was a huge success and is considered a soul classic.

Other singles include “Come Get to This,” which recalled Gaye’s early soul sound and “You Sure Love to Ball,” a R&B hit whose success was stalled by its suggestive themes.

Last year, Motown/UMe released a deluxe edition of Let’s Get It On for the album’s 50th anniversary. Gaye decided to follow in the footsteps of his label, Motown, and relocate from Detroit to Los Angeles.

Their relationship would produce two children and a 1977 marriage.

"Let's Get It On" reached number 1 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart on September 8, 1973.

Lets Get It On lyrics by Marvin Gaye

I've been really tryin', baby

Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long

And if you feel, like I feel baby

Then come on, oh come on, ooh

Let's get it on, oh baby

Let's get it on, let's love baby

Let's get it on, sugar

Let's get it on, whoa

We're all sensitive people

With so much to give, understand me sugar

Since we got to be here

Let's live, I love you

There's nothin' wrong with me

Lovin' you, baby love, love

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong

If the love is true, oh baby

(Let me love you)

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Hunter would become Gaye's live-in lover by 1974. He followed that record with the soundtrack album to the 1972 blaxploitation film Trouble Man. Let’s Get It On was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004.

In other Marvin Gaye news, next year, a remastered deluxe edition of the 1974 album Marvin Gaye Live! will bring the entire show to DSPs for the first time.

Directed by Monica Cordero and animated by Vania Chandrawidjaja and William Kusuma, the visual uses vibrant 1970s psychedelia to Gaye’s sensual anthem to life.

Lets Get It On

Song Meaningof Lets Get It On by Marvin Gaye

After 1971’s “What’s Going On,” Gaye radically changed course with this song.

That collection features 33 bonus tracks including songs from a lost Herbie Hancock session. The album captures Gaye’s return to the stage after the release of Let’s Get It On. Oh, oh

(Let me love you)

I'm askin' you baby to get it on with me, oh oh

(Let me love you)

I ain't gonna worry, I ain't gonna push

(Let me love you)

I won't push you baby

(Let me love you)

So come on, come on, come on, come on baby

Stop beatin' 'round the bush, hey

Let's get it on, let's get it on

You know what I'm talkin' 'bout

Come on baby, hey, hey

Let your love come out

If you believe in love

Let's get it on, ooh, let's get it on baby

This minute, oh yeah let's get it on

Please, let's get it on

I know you know what I been dreamin' of, don't you baby?

(My body wants some)

My whole body makes that feelin' of love, I'm happy

(My body wants some)

I ain't gonna worry, no I ain't gonna push

I won't push you baby, woo

Come on, come on, come on, come on darling

Stop beatin' 'round the bush

Oh, gonna get it on, threatenin' you, baby

I wanna get it on

You don't have to worry that it's wrong

If the spirit moves you

Let me groove you good

Let your love come down

Oh, get it on, come on baby

Do you know the meaning?

I've been sanctified, hey hey

Girl, you give me good feeling

So good somethin' like sanctified

Oh do right baby

Nothing wrong with love

If you want to love me just let yourself go

Oh baby, let's get it on

"Let's Get It On" lyrics

Marvin Gaye Lyrics

"Let's Get It On"

I've been really tryin', baby
Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long
And if you feel, like I feel baby
Then come on, oh come on, ooh

Let's get it on, oh baby
Let's get it on, let's love baby
Let's get it on, sugar
Let's get it on, whoa

We're all sensitive people
With so much to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be here
Let's live, I love you

There's nothin' wrong with me
Lovin' you, baby love, love
And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true, oh baby

(Let me love you)
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Initially inspired by Townsend’s struggle with substance abuse, the song became an intimate come-on. Oh, oh
(Let me love you)
I'm askin' you baby to get it on with me, oh oh
(Let me love you)
(Let me love you)
I ain't gonna worry, I ain't gonna push
(Let me love you)
I won't push you baby
(Let me love you)
So come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Stop beatin' 'round the bush, hey

Let's get it on, let's get it on
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout
Come on baby, hey, hey
Let your love come out
If you believe in love
Let's get it on, ooh, let's get it on baby
This minute, oh yeah let's get it on
Please, let's get it on
I know you know what I been dreamin' of, don't you baby?
(My body wants some)
My whole body makes that feelin' of love, I'm happy
(My body wants some)
I ain't gonna worry, no I ain't gonna push
I won't push you baby, woo
Come on, come on, come on, come on darling
Stop beatin' 'round the bush
Oh, gonna get it on, threatenin' you, baby
I wanna get it on
You don't have to worry that it's wrong
If the spirit moves you
Let me groove you good
Let your love come down
Oh, get it on, come on baby
Do you know the meaning?
I've been sanctified, hey hey
Girl, you give me good feeling
So good somethin' like sanctified
Oh do right baby
Nothing wrong with love
If you want to love me just let yourself go
Oh baby, let's get it on

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Thanks to Bernadette Dillon, Jack Cedeño, Bernadette Carano, Michael Adebayo for correcting these lyrics.

Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Gets Official Music Video

Marvin Gaye’s classic track “Let’s Get It On” now has an official music video.

Gaye worked alongside producer Ed Townsend, who co-wrote several songs including the ballad “If I Should Die Tonight.”

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (Official Music Video)

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The album’s title track became Gaye’s second No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. Released in August 1973, Let’s Get It On explores the sexual and the spiritual.

You’re supposed to be a minister’s son.”

"Let's Get It On" is a song by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released in 1973 and on the album of the same name.

The song features romantic and sexual lyricism and funk instrumentation, and it is Gaye's most successful single for Motown and one of his most well-known songs.

The song's sexually explicit content, "Let's Get It On" helped give Gaye a reputation as a sex symbol during its initial popularity.

The song was Gaye's plea for sexual liberation, and was originally conceived by co-producer, Ed Townsend, who was released from a rehab facility for alcoholism.

Gaye confidante Kenneth Stover changed some of the words around as a political song and Gaye recorded the version as it was written, but Townsend protested that the song was not a politically conscious song but a song dedicated to love and sex.

Gaye and Townsend then collaborated on new lyrics and, using the original backing tracks as recorded, Gaye transformed the song into an emotional centerpiece.

During the time of the recording of the song and its subsequent album of the same name, Marvin had befriended the family of jazz guitarist Slim Gaillard and had become smitten with Gaillard's 17-year-old daughter, Janis Hunter.

A widely reported story has been told that Hunter was in the studio when Gaye recorded the song at the recording booth.

Gaye and Hunter were said to be smitten with each other and, within months, they began dating.