- A Funky Space Reincarnation
Infobox Single
Name = A Funky Space Reincarnation
Background = khaki
Artist =Marvin Gaye
from_Album =Here, My Dear
B-side = A Funky Space Reincarnation, Pt. 2
Released =February 11 ,1979
Format = 7" single; 12" single
Recorded = Marvin's Room,Los Angeles, California ,USA ,1977
Genre =Funk
Length = 8:17
Label = Tamla
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Last single = "Pops, We Love You" (w/Diana Ross ,Smokey Robinson andStevie Wonder )
(1978)
This single = "A Funky Space Reincarnation"
(1979)
Next single = "Anger"
(1979)"A Funky Space Reincarnation" is a 1978funk single recorded and released in1979 byMarvin Gaye on the Tamla label.The only American release of Gaye's post-divorce album, "
Here, My Dear ", the song was one of the few upbeat tracks recorded on the mostly moody and introspective album.In this song, he described a parallel universe where in the future, he's a captain of a "space bed" and he meets a woman that reminds him of his first wife, Anna.
He then tells the woman that they'd probably get "married in June" and tells her to "smoke a joint from out of
Venus ".The song, like many of the tracks on "Here, My Dear", doesn't have a distinctive melody, hook or a chorus and was obviously inspired by the likes of funk musicians such as
Parliament-Funkadelic andEarth, Wind & Fire .The song became a modest hit on the R&B charts, where it peaked at number twenty-three there. Marvin cut his very first music video with this song where surrounded by his band and a trio of sexy female dancers, he danced and lip-synched the song in a flashy red outfit.
The song has been recently used in the advert for the Dior perfume J'adore starring
Charlize Theron .Credits
*All vocals, keyboards and synthesizers by Marvin Gaye
*Produced, written, arranged and composed by Marvin Gaye
*Drums by Bugsy Wilcox
*Guitar by Gordon Banks
*Bass by Frank Blair
*Trumpet by Nolan SmithReferences
Notes
Citation| last = Gaye| first = Marvin| title = A Funky Space Reincarnation Lyrics|url = http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/A-Funky-Space-Reincarnation-lyrics-Marvin-Gaye/AF3D0290E9B562E148256BD40013A423| accessdate = 2008-06-13 .
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