- 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 a1967 hit for Motown singersMarvin Gaye andTammi Terrell . Written byNickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson and produced byHarvey Fuqua andJohnny Bristol , thedoo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Ashford, Gaye, Terrell and Jackey Beavers, and instrumentals byThe 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 byD'Angelo andErykah Badu was released in1996 , and ana cappella cover of the song byCedric the Entertainer andAvant figures in agag sequence in the 2004MGM film "". Sarah Connor recorded the song as anoverdub bed "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).
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