℗ 2020 UMG Recordings; A Motown Records Release This Compilation
Released | June 19, 1974 |
Duration | 43m 31s |
Record Label | UNI/MOTOWN |
Genre | R & B |
Marvin Gaye Live!
Marvin Gaye
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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Introduction (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; Joe Sample; David T. Walker |
0:34 | |||
1.2
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Overture (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
2:24 | |||
1.3
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Trouble Man (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
6:36 | |||
1.4
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Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler / Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
4:29 | |||
1.5
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Distant Lover (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; Gene Page; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
5:10 | |||
1.6
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Jan (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; Gene Page; Joe Sample; David T. Walker |
3:08 | |||
1.7
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Fossil Medley (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
11:36 | |||
1.8
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Let's Get It On (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
4:45 | |||
1.9
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What's Going On (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974)
Marvin Gaye; David T. Walker; Joe Sample |
4:49 |
Marvin Gaye Live! is the second live album issued by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released on June 19, 1974, by Tamla Records. In 1973, Gaye released his greatest-selling album, Let's Get It On, which made him the biggest-selling Motown artist during his lifetime. Motown Records, Gaye's label for over a decade, had long wanted Gaye to promote his recordings with a national tour but the rebellious singer, who had begun suffering from stage fright after the collapse of his beloved singing duet partner Tammi Terrell in October 1967 and whom later died of a brain tumour two and a half years later in March 1970, had refused to return to live performing only agreeing to do it only at sporadic times including when he was honoured in his hometown in Washington, D.C. in May 1972 and performed at the Kennedy Center and briefly on the 1973 film, Save the Children. But with the success of Let's Get It On and Gaye's now-increasing spending habit, he reluctantly agreed to start touring again in the beginning of 1974.
After rescheduling the concert for January 4, 1974, at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, Gaye took the stage in front of 14,000-plus screaming fans. He performed a new song which he dedicated to his girlfriend Janis Hunter titled "Jan" and performed most of his 1970s repertoire, only including his 1960s classics in a sped-up "Fossil Medley". Throughout his tours, Gaye began developing performance anxiety and had feared the public reception. To test the public, he reportedly forced his younger brother Frankie to come out before being confident enough to come out afterwards. The biggest fan response on the album came when Gaye retooled his song, "Distant Lover", into a slower-paced version starting the song out as he segued from "Theme from Trouble Man" (seventh track from his Trouble Man album) to the song itself producing female shrieks, which kept up as Gaye continued his show-stopping performance of the song. The performance soon became a Gaye trademark onstage and the singer continued to perform the song in that similar style until his final performances in the 1980s.
Commercially, the album was a big success and proved that, despite his fears, Gaye was still as convincing as a live performer as he was as a recording artist during the early-1970s.
192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – UNI/MOTOWN Studio Masters
Tracks 1-9 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-9 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.29 -0.29 to -0.29 | -13.63 -16.00 to -12.10 | -10.10 -12.20 to -8.50 | 9 8 to 10 | |
1 | Introduction (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -16.00 | -12.2 | 8 |
2 | Overture (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -13.92 | -10.3 | 9 |
3 | Trouble Man (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -13.73 | -10.3 | 9 |
4 | Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler / Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -13.90 | -10.6 | 10 |
5 | Distant Lover (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -12.84 | -9.2 | 8 |
6 | Jan (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -13.23 | -10.0 | 8 |
7 | Fossil Medley (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -14.34 | -10.8 | 10 |
8 | Let's Get It On (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -12.10 | -8.5 | 8 |
9 | What's Going On (Live At Oakland Coliseum, CA/1974) | -0.29 | -12.57 | -9.0 | 8 |