Best Marvin Gaye Songs Top 10 All-Time

Marvin Gaye is a true R&B and Soul music legend. Marvin was a mainstay for Motown Records in the Sixties and continued through the Seventies and until his death in 1984. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

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Marvin Gaye had seven top 40 hits as duets with Tammi Terrell also of Motown Records in the Sixties. The duo singing would have continued if her life had not stopped short in 1970 due to a brain tumor. Marvin’s career was also cut short as he was murdered by his father in 1984.

Best Marvin Gaye Songs

10. I Want You
Released in 1976
On Album: I Want You

9. Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (with Tammi Terrell)
Released in 1968
On Album: You’re All I Need

8. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Released in 1964
On Album: How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You

7. You’re All I Need to Get By (with Tammi Terrell)
Released in 1968
On Album: You’re All I Need

6. Mercy Mercy Me
Released in 1971
On Album: What’s Going On

5. Sexual Healing
Released in 1982
On Album: Midnight Love

4. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Released in 1968
On Album: In the Groove
This was Marvin’s first number one hit on the Billboard charts.

3. Got To Give It Up, Part I
Released in 1977
On Album: Live at the London Palladium

2. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (with Tammi Terrell)
Released in 1967
On Album: United

1. Let’s Get It On
Released in 1973
On Album: Marvin Gaye
Let’s Get It On was Marvin Gaye’s most successful single as it reached number on on the Billboard charts for two weeks in 1973.

The Let’s Get It On album was also the most commercially successful album in Gaye’s career. The album featured three hit singles: Let’s Get It On, Come Get to This, and You Sure Love to Ball. Also check out the album Number 1’s: Marvin Gaye – Marvin Gaye.