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.
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.
"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.
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" is a 1968 single released by American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,on the Tamla label in 1968. The B-side of the single is "Little Ole Boy,Little Ole Girl" from the duo's United LP. The first release off the duo's second album:You're All I Need,the song—written and produced by regular Gaye/Terrell collaborators Ashford &Simpson—became a hit within weeks of release eventually peaking at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart,the first of the duo's two number-one R&B hits. In the UK "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" reached number 34.
"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 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 Tammi 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."
Diana Ross &the Supremes Join the Temptations is a collaborative album combining Motown's two best selling groups,Diana Ross &the Supremes and the Temptations. Issued by Motown in late 1968 to coincide with the broadcast of the Supremes/Temptations TCB television special,the album was a success,reaching #2 on the Billboard 200. Diana Ross &the Supremes Join the Temptations spent four weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Love Child is the fifteenth studio album released by Diana Ross &the Supremes for the Motown label in 1968. The LP was the group's first studio LP not to include any songs written or produced by any member of the Holland–Dozier–Holland production team,who had previously overseen most of the Supremes' releases.
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.
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits is a 1970 compilation album released by Motown stars Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell on the Tamla label. It is a collection of the duo's recording material,penned and produced by the songwriting-producing team of Ashford &Simpson except for two tracks. The album was released shortly after the death of Terrell,who died of a brain tumor at the age of 24.
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.
All The Great Hits is a compilation album by American singer Diana Ross,released in October 1981 by Motown Records. It was the second Motown compilation set to capitalize on the success of 1980's diana produced by Chic. Her duet "Endless Love" with Lionel Richie was from the film of the same name,Endless Love and,just like 1980's "It's My Turn",had already been released as a single and on a soundtrack album.
"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.
"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.,father of Motown founder Berry Gordy,who had died that year from cancer.
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