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The song was always likely to struggle to match “Let’s Get It On,” which topped both pop and soul surveys. It opened on Billboard’s Hot 100 at No.82, coming to a halt at No.21.
As if Let’s Get It On and its singles weren’t enough, Gaye was enjoying success at the same time with the Diana & Marvin collaboration album with Diana Ross.
The song made its US debut on both the R&B and pop charts on November 3, 1973.
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The song actually dated back to a demo session of exactly three years earlier. On November 3, 1970, Gaye was at Hitsville in Detroit considering material for what became his epic What’s Going On album of the following year.
It was first cut under the title “Taken For A Ride,” on the same day that the soul man started “Distant Lover.” Both were shelved for that project, but brought forward for Let’s Get It On. That produced a big US soul hit in “You’re A Special Part Of Me” and a transatlantic top tenner in “You Are Everything.” Then Marvin went back to his solo album for one more, typically sensuous 45, “You Sure Love To Ball,” which rose to No.13 R&B.
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"Come Get To This" lyrics
Marvin Gaye Lyrics
"Come Get To This" Girl, you've been gone away a real long time
Now I really went out of my mind
I miss your lovin' when you left, baby you did
Ah baby, come here, let me caress you
Ah ah baby let us, ah tell me what you missed
Come here, sugar, and get to this
Ah baby, I want you here
I want to do something freaky to you
I want to feel what I've felt long
Ah baby, come get to this
Ooo remember, baby, how you made me feel just like a king
Ah, I've been waiting
I'm ready for you to start doin' the things
I'm tryin' to blow your mind
You're so fine, so petite, oh candy sweet
Ah, I've been waiting
Come here, baby, get to this
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sweet love, sweet love, oh so good
Get back here from the depths, we have to get back
Oh, nothin's changed, you're still sweet as the mornin' rain
Girl, I'm standin' ready to
Love you, babe, make it good to you
Ooo I need your love
Don't make me wait, I can't wait
Oh I'm so impatient for your love
Come here, sweet sweet baby, get to this
Girl, I know you've been gone a long time
You nearly blew my mind, baby
Girl, you've been gone for so long
I'm so glad, glad that you call me your baby
Oooo-eeee-oooo
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But it became another major R&B hit for Gaye, starting at No.76 and travelling all the way to No.3.“Come Get To This” reemerged as he crafted the new album, now with sumptuous accompaniment from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and instrumentation by the peerless Funk Brothers.
Marvin delights fans again
“Come Get To This” was a Pick of the Week in Cashbox, who wrote admiringly: “Marvin really got it on with his last super smash and this one is going to keep his career moving up just as fast.
The easy flow here and super rhythm section hugging Marvin’s vocals will delight his fans, who in turn will give him his next Top Five monster.”
On the R&B side at least, the magazine was exactly right.
‘Come Get To This’: Marvin Gaye’s Joyful Follow-Up To ‘Let’s Get It On’
Marvin Gaye’s memorable 1973 album Let’s Get It On was precisely six weeks old as a new release when he followed its flagship, title track single with another seductive slice of his signature soulfulness.
His own composition “Come Get To This” opened with the doo-wop harmonies of Marvin’s youth, before blossoming into a fingersnapping, joyful ode to a returning lover.