- soul
- 32 min
- 12 tracks
- Tamla Motown
In the Groove is the eighth studio album by the American 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.
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Spare, character-led, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- A1You2:28
- A2Tear It On Down2:38
- A3Chained2:41
- A4I Heard It Through the Grapevine3:17
- A5At Last (I Found a Love)2:40
- A6Some Kind of Wonderful2:22
- B1Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever2:46
- B2Change What You Can2:40
- B3It’s Love I Need2:57
- B4Every Now and Then3:08
- B5You’re What’s Happening in the World Today2:22
- B6There Goes My Baby2:24
12 tracks, 32 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Marvin Gaye
- Label
- Tamla Motown
- Released
- 1968
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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