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"My Love is Waiting" Single by Marvin Gaye from the album Midnight Love Released 1983 Recorded Ohain, Belgium (Studio Katy), 1982 Genre Electro-funk, synthpop, soul Label CBS Writer(s) Gordon Banks Producer Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye singles chronology "Sexual Healing"
(1982)"My Love is Waiting"
(1983)"'Til Tomorrow"
(1983)"My Love is Waiting" is a song written by musician Gordon Banks and recorded and released by American singer Marvin Gaye, as a European-only single in early 1983, it was also the last track on Gaye's final album in his lifetime, Midnight Love.
Background
The song was written by Banks with another act in mind that he was producing back in the United States. While working with Gaye in Europe, first on several tours and then together at a Belgian recording studio where they recorded Gaye's Midnight Love album, Gaye had struggled to complete his new record, his first outside Motown. Upon hearing the demo of Banks' song, Gaye requested to record the song, which Banks agreed. Gaye and Banks produced the song and arranged his vocals, recording multi-layered background vocals on one date, and a solo lead the next. Surprisingly, Gaye made just a few additions to this song. This was the final song Gaye recorded and finalized for Midnight Love.
In the song, he begins it by thanking several people for helping him make the album including CBS Records, Banks, CBS' black music chief Larkin Arnold, and "most of all, we want to thank our Heavenly father, Jesus!" before the song's melody emerges. The song is about a man coming back to an old lover after several months apart. The song's ironic message was also partially due to Gaye returning to the arms of his fans after a five-year layoff. Gaye would return to the United States in late 1982 following the release of Midnight Love. During his "Sexual Healing Tour", Gaye would end his shows with the song being played as an instrumental outro where he took the time to thank several of his close friends and family, and also, like the song itself, also thanked God saying "I still love Jesus!" Gaye died the following year making the words seem prophetic.
Chart performances and re-releases
While it wasn't released in the US, it did register on the UK Singles Chart peaking at number 34 on the chart and the Dutch singles chart where it peaked at number 45. There is also an alternate version that can be found on the Midnight Love and the Sexual Healing Sessions, that is longer than the final version released on the Midnight Love album.
Credits
- All vocals, synthesizers and organ by Marvin Gaye
- Drums, guitar, bass and Fender Rhodes by Gordon Banks
- Music and lyrics written by Gordon Banks
- Produced by Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye singles discography 1960s:
(Tamla)1961: "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide"
1962: "Sandman" · "Soldier's Plea" · "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" · "Hitch Hike"
1963: "Pride and Joy" · "Can I Get a Witness" · "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby"
1964: "You're a Wonderful One" · "Once Upon a Time" · "What's the Matter with You Baby" · "Try It Baby" · "Baby Don't You Do It" · "What Good Am I Without You" · "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
1965: "I'll Be Doggone" · "Pretty Little Baby" · "Ain't That Peculiar"
1966: "One More Heartache" · "Take This Heart of Mine" · "Little Darling (I Need You)" · "It Takes Two"
1967: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" · "Your Unchanging Love" · "Your Precious Love" · "You" · "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"
1968: "If This World Were Mine" · "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" · "You're All I Need to Get By" · "Chained" · "Keep On Lovin' Me Honey" · "You Ain't Livin' till You're Lovin'" · "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" · "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
1969: "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" · "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" · "That's the Way Love Is" · "Abraham, Martin and John" · "What You Gave Me" · "How Can I Forget"1970s:
(Tamla)1970: "Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" · "The Onion Song" · "California Soul" · "The End of Our Road"
1971: "What's Going On" · "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" · "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" · "Save the Children"
1972: "You're the Man" · "Trouble Man" · "I Want to Come Home for Christmas"
1973: "Let's Get It On" · "You're a Special Part of Me" · "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" · "Come Get to This"
1974: "You Sure Love to Ball" · "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" · "Don't Knock My Love" · "You Are Everything" · "Distant Lover"
1976: "I Want You" · "After the Dance"
1977: "Got to Give It Up"
1978: "Pops We Love You"
1979: "A Funky Space Reincarnation" · "Anger" · "Ego Tripping Out"1980s:
(Tamla/Columbia)1981: "Praise" · "Heavy Love Affair"
1982: "Sexual Healing"
1983: "My Love Is Waiting" · "'Til Tomorrow" · "Joy"Posthumous: 1985: "Sanctified Lady" · "It's Madness"
1986: "Just Like" · "The World Is Rated X"
1991: "My Last Chance"
1994: "Lucky, Lucky Me"
2001: "Music"
2005: "Let's Get It On (The M.P.G. Groove Remix)"Book:Marvin Gaye ·
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