Your Precious Love

Infobox Single
Name = Your Precious Love
Artist = Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
from Album = United
Released= August 22, 1967
Format= 7" single
Recorded= Hitsville USA; 1967
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 3:07
Label = Tamla
T 54156
Writer = Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson
Producer = Harvey Fuqua
Johnny Bristol
Chart position= #10 Pop, #2 R&B
Last single= "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
(1967)
This single= "Your Precious Love"
(1967)
Next single= "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"
(1968)

"Your Precious Love" is a popular song that was a 1967 hit for Motown singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol, the doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Ashford, Gaye, Terrell and Jackey Beavers, and instrumentals by The Funk Brothers. The song peaked at #5 on "Billboard" Pop Singles chart, #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart, and the top 40 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.

A cover version by D'Angelo and Erykah Badu was released in 1996, and an a cappella cover of the song by Cedric the Entertainer and Avant figures in a gag sequence in the 2004 MGM film "". Sarah Connor recorded the song as an overdubbed "duet" with Marvin Gaye on her 2007 album "Soulicious". Another cover of the song was recorded by Peter Cox of Go West and Easther Bennett of Eternal and appears on Peter Cox's 2006 CD "Motor City Music(Curb Records).