Together (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells album)

Together is the first and only studio album released by the duo team of American Motown artists Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells. It was released on the Motown label on April 15, 1964. The album brought together the rising star Gaye with Wells, an established star with a number-one pop hit to her name (1964's "My Guy"), singing mostly standards and show tunes, in the hopes that Gaye would benefit from the exposure.^[1]

This album became the first charted album credited to Gaye, peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and yielding two top twenty singles, "Once Upon a Time" and "What's the Matter with You Baby". Shortly afterwards, Wells, who received bad advice from her former husband and manager, left Motown upon reaching twenty-one. The label had to find another duet partner for Gaye, enlisting Kim Weston for one album, Take Two, also consisting of similar material, but later yielding a longer-lasting pairing of Gaye with Tammi Terrell, with more contemporary material.

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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Once Upon a Time"	Barney Ales, Dave Hamilton, Clarence Paul, William "Mickey" Stevenson	2:32
2.	"'Deed I Do"	Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose	3.00
3.	"Until I Met You"	Freddie Green, Don Wolf	3:26
4.	"Together"	Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson	2:49
5.	"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons"	William Best, Deek Watson	2:35
6.	"The Late, Late Show"	Roy Alfred, Murray Berlin	2:42
7.	"After the Lights Go Down Low"	Phil Belmonte, Leroy Lovett, Allen White	2:53
8.	"Just Squeeze Me (Don't Tease Me)"	Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines	2:32
9.	"What's the Matter with You Baby"	Ales, Paul, Stevenson	2:24
10.	"You Came a Long Way from St. Louis"	John Brooks, Bob Russel	2:52

Personnel

Marvin Gaye – lead vocals
Mary Wells – lead and additional vocals
The Love Tones – background vocals
The Andantes – background vocals
The Funk Brothers – instrumentation

References

↑ "Together – Marvin Gaye,Mary Wells | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 November 2016.

Marvin Gaye

Studio albums	The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye (1961) That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962) When I'm Alone I Cry (1964) Hello Broadway (1964) How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You (1965) A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965) Moods of Marvin Gaye (1966) In the Groove/I Heard It Through the Grapevine! (1968) M.P.G. (1969) That's the Way Love Is (1970) What's Going On (1971) Trouble Man (1972) Let's Get It On (1973) I Want You (1976) Here, My Dear (1978) In Our Lifetime (1981) Midnight Love (1982)

Posthumous albums	Dream of a Lifetime (1985) Romantically Yours (1986) Vulnerable (1997)

Duet albums	Together (with Mary Wells, 1964) Take Two (with Kim Weston, 1966) United (with Tammi Terrell, 1967) You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell, 1968) Easy (with Tammi Terrell, 1969) Diana & Marvin (with Diana Ross, 1973)

Compilations	Greatest Hits (1964) Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1967) Marvin Gaye and His Girls (1969) Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits (1970) Super Hits (1970) Anthology (1974) Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits (1976) Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters (1986) The Marvin Gaye Collection (1990) The Norman Whitfield Sessions (1994) Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased (1994) The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (1994) The Master (1961–1984) (1995) Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs (2000) The Complete Duets (2001) The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (2001)

Live albums	Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage (1963) Marvin Gaye Live! (1974) Live at the London Palladium (1977) Marvin Gaye at the Copa (2005)

Video albums	Greatest Hits Live (Live in Holland 1976) (2000) Live In Montreux 1980 (2003) The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981) (2006) Live In Belgium 1981 (2006)

US/UK Top Ten singles	"Pride and Joy" "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" "I'll Be Doggone" "Ain't That Peculiar" "Your Precious Love" "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" "You're All I Need to Get By" "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" "That's the Way Love Is" "Abraham, Martin & John" "The Onion Song" "What's Going On" "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" "Trouble Man" "Let's Get It On" "You Are Everything" "Got to Give It Up" "Sexual Healing"

Family	Marvin Gay, Sr. (father) Alberta Gay (mother) Anna Gordy Gaye (first wife) Denise Gordy (son's birth mother) Nona Gaye (daughter) Frankie Gaye (brother) Gordon Banks (brother-in-law)

Related topics	Discography Songs Albums Songs by Marvin Gaye Albums produced by Marvin Gaye Songs in memory Songs produced by Marvin Gaye Personal life Murder Tributes Harvey Fuqua Tammi Terrell Leon Ware Marvin's Room Marvin Is 60: A Tribute Album

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Mary Wells

Studio albums	Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance (1961) The One Who Really Loves You (1962) Two Lovers and Other Great Hits (1963) Mary Wells Sings My Guy (1964) Mary Wells (1965) The Two Sides of Mary Wells (1966) Servin' Up Some Soul (1968) In and Out of Love (1981) Keeping My Mind on Love (1990)

Other albums	Recorded Live On Stage (1963) Together (1964) Love Songs to the Beatles (1965) Greatest Hits (1966) Vintage Stock (1966) Easy Touch (1982) The Old, The New & The Best of Mary Wells (1983)

Singles (US Top 40)	"I Don't Want to Take a Chance" "The One Who Really Loves You" "You Beat Me to the Punch" "Two Lovers" "Laughing Boy" "Your Old Standby" "What's Easy for Two Is Hard for One"/ "You Lost the Sweetest Boy" "My Guy" "Once Upon a Time" "What's the Matter with You Baby" "Use Your Head"

Related articles	Discography Albums Songs Smokey Robinson Marvin Gaye Cecil Womack Meech Wells

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