- Heavy Love Affair
Infobox Single
Name = Heavy Love Affair
Artist =Marvin Gaye
Album =In Our Lifetime
Type = 7" single
Released = 1981
Recorded = 1980, Air Studios,London, England
Length = 3:45
Genre =Funk , soul
Label = Tamla
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Last single = "Praise"
(1981)
This single = "Heavy Love Affair"
(1981)
Next single = "Sexual Healing "
(1982)"Heavy Love Affair" is a
funk song recorded by American soul singerMarvin Gaye . Released as the second and last single off Gaye's lastMotown album, "In Our Lifetime ", in1981 , the song was based on Gaye's real-life emotional crisis after being separated from his wife at the time,Janis Gaye . In some parts of the song, Gaye knows that he's a major female attraction but still feels the warmth of his lost love saying "lots of ladies love me/but I'm still alone sometime" bringing that point clearer in the next verse saying "you got me looking for love (again)". The song became one of his lowest-charted Billboard hits on the R&B side reaching just #61 there becoming the final release of Gaye's on the Tamla (Motown ) label before he left the label for Columbia the next year. The musical background of this song originally came from the song, "Life's a Game of Give and Take" from Marvin's aborted 1979 release, "Love Man"
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