Easy is an album recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,and released by Motown Records on September 16,1969 under the Tamla Records label. One song on the album,"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By",was a hit single and remains popular to this day.
Thomasina Winifred Montgomery,professionally known as Tammi Terrell,was an American singer-songwriter,widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s,notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.
Syreeta Wright,who recorded professionally under the mononym Syreeta,was an American singer-songwriter,best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights were songs in collaboration with her ex-husband Stevie Wonder and musical artist Billy Preston.
Ashford &Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting,production,recording duo composed of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson.
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is a song written by Nickolas Ashford &Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla label,a division of Motown. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,and became a hit again in 1970 when recorded by former Supremes frontwoman Diana Ross. The song became Ross's first solo number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
"Your Precious Love" is a popular song that was a 1967 hit for Motown singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The song was written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson,and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol. The doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Fuqua,Gaye,Terrell and Bristol,and instrumentals by The Funk Brothers with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The song peaked at #5 on Billboard Pop Singles chart,#2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart,and the top 40 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey. The song was later sampled by Gerald Levert on the song,"Your Smile",on his 2002 album,The G Spot.
"You're All I Need to Get By" is a song recorded by the American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and released on Motown Records' Tamla label in 1968. It was the basis for the 1995 single "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" from Method Man and Mary J. Blige.
Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 was the debut studio album from Gary,Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5,released on the Motown label on December 12,1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer,a preadolescent Michael Jackson and his four older brothers Jackie,Tito,Jermaine,and Marlon,became pop successes within months of this album's release. Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5's only single,"I Want You Back",became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 within weeks of the album's release. The album reached number 5 on the US Pop Albums chart,and spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the US R&B/Black Albums charts. To date,the Jackson 5's debut album has sold estimated 5 million copies worldwide.
"Stubborn Kind of Fellow" is a 1962 song recorded by Marvin Gaye for the Tamla label. Co-written by Gaye and produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson,"Stubborn Kind of Fellow" became Gaye's first hit single,reaching the top 10 of the R&B chart and the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1962.
United is a studio album by the soul musicians Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,released August 29,1967 on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol produced all of the tracks on the album,with the exception of "You Got What It Takes" and "Oh How I'd Miss You". Fuqua and Bristol produced "Hold Me Oh My Darling" and "Two Can Have a Party" as Terrell solo tracks in 1965 and 1966,and had Gaye overdub his vocals to them in order to create duet versions of the songs.
You're All I Need is the second studio album by soul musicians Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,released in August 1968 on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Highlighted by three hit singles written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson,You're All I Need was recorded throughout 1966 and 1967 and features two Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits,"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". It peaked at #60 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Album Chart. You're All I Need was the two singers' final collaboration effort,as Terrell would become ill following recording,before succumbing to a brain tumor in 1970.
Diana Ross is the debut solo studio album by American singer Diana Ross,released on June 19,1970 by Motown Records. The ultimate test to see if the former Supremes frontwoman could make it as a solo act,the album was overseen by the songwriting-producing team of Nickolas Ashford &Valerie Simpson,who had Ross re-record several of the songs the duo had recorded on other Motown acts. Johnny Bristol,producer of her final single with The Supremes,contributed on The Velvelettes cover "These Things Will Keep Me Loving You."
In the Groove is the eighth studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye,released on August 26,1968 on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. It was the first solo studio album Gaye released in two years,in which during that interim,the singer had emerged as a successful duet partner with female R&B singers such as Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell. In the Groove was reissued and retitled as I Heard It Through the Grapevine after the unexpected success of Gaye's recording of the same name,which had been released as a single from the original album.
The Magnificent 7 is a collaborative album combining Motown's premier vocal groups,The Supremes and The Four Tops. Issued by Motown in 1970,it followed two collaborative albums The Supremes did with The Temptations in the late 1960s. The album featured their hit cover of Ike &Tina Turner's "River Deep –Mountain High",which reached number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In the UK,the album peaked at number 6. In December 1971,Billboard reported UK album sales of 30,000 copies.
The Complete Duets is a two-disc compilation album of duet recordings by Motown Records artists Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,recorded between 1965 and 1969. The set compiles all of the tracks from the duo's three albums - United,You're All I Need and Easy - as well as several of Tammi Terrell's solo recordings and other previously unissued material.
"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" is a duet released in 1969 on the Tamla label by singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
"California Soul" is a funk-soul tune written by Ashford &Simpson,issued originally as the B-side of the Messengers' single "Window Shopping" in 1967 under the Motown group of labels.
"What You Gave Me" is a hit duet written and produced by Ashford &Simpson and issued as a single originally by the vocal duo of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in 1969 on the Tamla label.
Forever Diana:Musical Memoirs is a four-CD box set of recordings by American singer Diana Ross released on October 5,1993 by Motown Records.
"Pops,We Love You" is a 1978 single recorded and released by Motown stars Diana Ross,Marvin Gaye,Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder,as a tribute to Berry "Pops" Gordy Sr.,who had died that year from cancer.
