If I Should Die Tonight

Infobox Song
Name = If I Should Die Tonight


Artist = Marvin Gaye
Album = Let's Get It On
Released = 1973
track_no = 3
Recorded = 1973, Hitsville West, Los Angeles, California
Genre = Soul
Label = Tamla
Length = 3:03
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Ed Townsend
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Ed Townsend
Tracks
prev = "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)"
prev_no = 2
next = "Keep Gettin' It On"
next_no = 4

"If I Should Die Tonight" is a 1973 song written by Ed Townsend and Marvin Gaye and recorded by Marvin as a single issued on his "Let's Get It On" album as the third track on the album.

Following the title track and the album single, "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)", Marvin discusses in the song about his mortality telling his lover that if he should ever die either that night or later on, he said he "(wouldn't) die blue/'cause I've known you". The song was later covered as an interlude on Puff Daddy's 1997 album, "No Way Out", with Carl Thomas singing parts of the song.

Credits

*All vocals by Marvin Gaye
*Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles musicians
*Produced by Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend