Just to Keep You Satisfied

Song infobox
Name = Just to Keep You Satisfied


Caption =
Artist = Marvin Gaye
Album = Let's Get It On
Released = 1973
track_no = 8
Recorded = 1973
Genre = Soul
Length = 4:27
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Elgie Stover
Anna Gordy Gaye
Label = Tamla
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Let's Get It On
Type = studio
prev_track = "You Sure Love to Ball"
prev_no = 7
this_track = "Just to Keep You Satisfied"
track_no = 8
next_track =
next_no = Audiosample
Upper caption = Music sample
Name = Just to Keep You Satisfied
Audio file= Just to Keep You Satisfied sample.ogg

"Just to Keep You Satisfied" is a song by soul singer Marvin Gaye. The song was the b-side to Marvin's modest 1974 hit, "You Sure Love to Ball" and was the eighth and final song issued on the singer's 1973 album, "Let's Get It On".

Originally penned by Gaye as a song about a husband's devotion to his wife, Gaye produced versions with The Miracles, The Monitors and The Originals, who later supplied background vocals for Gaye's version. Gaye, in the final stages of his marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye, rewrote the original devoted tune into a more somber and autobiographical song with Elgie Stover but in the liner notes of his album kept his wife's name as a co-writer.

The song was covered by Kenny Lattimore on the Gaye tribute album, "Marvin Is 60", and was also covered by the likes of Randy Crawford and longtime Marvin Gaye fan Lisa Stansfield. The original version was played during the movie "Baby Boy" and was sampled on Mary J. Blige's single "When We", from her "Love & Life" album.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
*Background vocals by The Originals
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra