Marvin Gaye ~ Got To Give It Up 1977 Disco Purrfection Version

I remixed this one over a year ago, but never liked the sound, so after 64K views of the original, I have re-eq'd it, deleted the first upload and am re uploading the song...it sounds a lot clearer and in time for a Motown Monday!

Marvin Gaye had heard Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" and loved the way Johnnie sang the "fabulous" song and that it was "as good as disco got". Marvin was intrigued by the image of a "super sexy dancing woman" but added a twist to it when he began working on "Dancing Lady" in 1976. He was in London to play at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium, getting rave reviews for his live performances which were being recorded for a live double LP to be released in 1977. However, he ended up with only three sides worth of material and decided to finish "Dancing Lady" as a studio track to close out the project. Working on a riff he came up with, he began adding a variety of sounds to fill out the rhythm track using a "hotel sheet" that produced a wobble sound, "tapping half filled bottles of grapefruit juice" and people talking in the studio to create a party atmosphere. He was then inspired to rename the song "Got To Give It Up" and make it about a shy guy at a club who finally joins the party and ends up having a great time meeting his sexy dancing lady. Cut in Los Angeles in the fall of 1976 with Bugsy Wilcox on drums, Johnny McGhee on guitar and on background vocals he had his brother Frankie and his fiancee Jan Hunter provide their subtle harmonies to the mix. Marvin never left the studio, even recording his own overdubs live while operating the mixing board console by having his microphone set up over the top of it. He would record about two lines and then run the tape back and add more harmonies. Marvin was also adamant that the song was not disco but a funk song as it "got a chant to it, it's got a round type of overplay, like at the end its got two chants going simultaneously and the bass line is hypnotic. Disco is more monotonous." The song spent five weeks R&B #1, one week #1 on the Hot 100 and National Disco Action Top 40 Chart, an all around smash. It is #14 of the top songs for 1977.