You Are a Wonderful One

Infobox Single
Name = You're A Wonderful One
Background = khaki


Artist = Marvin Gaye
from Album = How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
B-side =
Released = April 1964
Format = LP
Recorded = January 6, 1964; Hitsville, USA; Detroit, Michigan
Genre = R&B/soul
Length = 2:45
Label = Tamla
Writer = Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Last single = "Can I Get a Witness"
(1963)
This single = "You Are a Wonderful One"
(1964)
Next single = "Try It Baby"
(1964)

"You Are a Wonderful One" is a propulsive soul single recorded and released by soul singer Marvin Gaye in 1964.

The song had the narrator praising his "wonderful one" for loving him and for "always (being) around" him. Gaye is helped along on this song by The Supremes on background. The group, along with The Temptations and The Four Tops, had earlier backed him on "Can I Get a Witness". Musically, the Funk Brothers took elements of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" single and incorporated it into the intro of this song. The song eventually charted at number fifteen on the pop charts and number three on the R&B singles chart.

It was produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland, who worked with Gaye on "Witness" and later "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" by Gaye a few months later giving him his biggest success as a solo artist until "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in 1968.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
*Background vocals by The Supremes: Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers