A Funky Space Reincarnation

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 and Stevie Wonder)
(1978)
This single = "A Funky Space Reincarnation"
(1979)
Next single = "Anger"
(1979)
"A Funky Space Reincarnation" is a 1978 funk single recorded and released in 1979 by Marvin 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 and Earth, 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 Smith

References

Notes

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