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Marvin Gaye — "Romantically Yours”

$15.00

Marvin always wanted to be Nat King Cole — and this is the proof. Released posthumously in November 1985, this Columbia collection pulls together ballads and standards Marvin had been quietly recording since the late ‘60s with jazz arranger Bobby Scott, sessions he shelved, revisited, and never quite finished, covering “Fly Me To The Moon,” “The Shadow Of Your Smile,” and “More” with lush strings and the kind of relaxed, intimate vocal authority he rarely got to show the world. It’s the album that completed his Columbia contract after his death in April 1984 — a quiet, gorgeous side of Marvin that most people who only know “Sexual Healing” have never heard.

Genre: Soul / Vocal Jazz

Year: 1985

Label: Columbia

Country: US

Condition: Media: Near Mint / Sleeve: VG+

Notes: Original 1985 US pressing; Columbia FC 40208; still in original shrink with OG price sticker; second posthumous Marvin Gaye release; compiled from sessions spanning late 1960s–1970s; produced by Bobby Scott, Hal Davis, Harvey Fuqua, and Marvin Gaye

Marvin always wanted to be Nat King Cole — and this is the proof. Released posthumously in November 1985, this Columbia collection pulls together ballads and standards Marvin had been quietly recording since the late ‘60s with jazz arranger Bobby Scott, sessions he shelved, revisited, and never quite finished, covering “Fly Me To The Moon,” “The Shadow Of Your Smile,” and “More” with lush strings and the kind of relaxed, intimate vocal authority he rarely got to show the world. It’s the album that completed his Columbia contract after his death in April 1984 — a quiet, gorgeous side of Marvin that most people who only know “Sexual Healing” have never heard.