Motown/UMe has unveiled a deluxe reissue of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On to celebrate the album’s 50th anniversary featuring 33 bonus tracks. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
Let’s Get It On: Deluxe Edition is filled with material from the six months of sessions for the album that took place in Los Angeles in 1973. The trove of additional songs includes 18 previously unreleased demos, alternate mixes, and instrumentals. See the artwork and tracklist below.
Gaye recorded Let’s Get It On from 1970 to 1973 at studios in Detroit and Los Angeles. It was his first foray into funk, as he combined soul and doo-wop to establish himself as a sex icon and expand his mainstream appeal following his magnum opus What’s Going On. The LP ended up as his most commercially successful album on Motown, giving him more creative control at the label.
Back in June 2021, it was reported that a biopic about Gaye from Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine with director Allen Hughes had been greenlit by Warner Bros.
Let’s Get It On: Deluxe Edition Artwork:
Let’s Get It On: Deluxe Edition Tracklist:
Original Album
01. Let’s Get It On
02. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
03. If I Should Die Tonight
04. Keep Gettin’ It On
05. Come Get to This
06. Distant Lover
07. You Sure Love to Ball
08. Just To Keep You Satisfied
Single Edits
09. Let’s Get It On (Single Version) *
10. You Sure Love to Ball (Single Version) *
11. If I Should Die Tonight (Original LP Edit) *
Album Bonus Tracks
12. Let’s Get It On (Demo) **
13. Let’s Get It On Pt. II (a.k.a. Keep Gettin’ It On) **
14. I Knew One Day My Day Would Come (Instrumental)
15. Interlude #1
16. Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away) [Alternate Mix 1] **
17. Lovely Lady (Instrumental)
18. If I Should Die Tonight (Demo) **
19. I Don’t Have to Get High to Do It (Instrumental)
20. Come Get to This (Alternate Mix 1) **
21. Distant Lover (Alternate Mix 1) **
22. You Sure Love to Ball (Alternate Nix 1 w/ Alternate Vocal) **
23. Just to Keep You Satisfied (Alternate Mix w/ Alternate Vocal) **
24. Interlude #2
25. If I Should Die Tonight (SaLaAM ReMi’s Piano Mix)
26. Just to Keep You Satisfied (John Morales’s Stripped Mix)
The David Van DePitte Sessions
27. Song #1 (Instrumental)
28. Song #2 (Instrumental)
29. Song #3 (Instrumental) **
30. Song #4 (Instrumental/Partial Vocal)
31. Shake Well (Instrumental)
32. Perfection (Instrumental)
33. Cakes (Instrumental) **
34. My Love Is Growing (Super Polished) **
Vulnerable: The 1973 vocals
35. She Needs Me
36. Why Did I Choose You
37. Funny, Not Much
38. This Will Make You Laugh
39. The Shadow of Your Smile
40. I Wish I Didn’t Love You So
41. I Won’t Cry Anymore
* = Previously released
** = Previously released bonus songs with fresh mixes
