Celebrating 50 Years, Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On: Deluxe Edition’ Will be Issued with Unreleased Tracks
Hip-hop isn’t the only one celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On August 28, 1973, the world was able to purchase and hear the classic album “Let’s Get It On” by Motown recording legend, Marvin Gaye. Now, 50 years later, save a day or two earlier, ok, three days earlier, a digital version of the seminal album will be released.
According to UDiscoverMusic, Motown/UMe will release a revised and expanded digital edition of “Let’s Get It On” on August 25. The newly expanded version will have a total of 33 bonus tracks, of those, 18 have never been released.
Let’s Get It On: Deluxe Edition will feature many songs that were recorded during six intense months of recording while the sessions took place in Los Angeles in 1973. The Deluxe Edition will include the original eight songs that were released when the LP initially came out. Also, there will be unheard mixes of various songs and material from all those sessions. Many fascinating instrumental tracks, and unreleased versions of the ballad recordings that Gaye returned to time and again.
This version was also mixed to match the sounds to be played via a new Dolby Atmos mix and over the next few weeks, there is expected new video content that will come out on select tracks. For the collectors out there, the album will also be an e-commerce-only colored vinyl edition of the original LP.
Before the project is released, on August 23, there will be an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles that will feature notable people like Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Jam, and Gaye’s biographer David Ritz. If you want to attend and you are in the area, tickets can be purchased at this link.
The original recording of Let’s Get It On was a number-one album on Billboard’s Soul LPs chart and hit No.2 on the all-genre Top LPs chart. The title track also reached No.1 on both the US pop and R&B charts. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame almost 20 years ago in 2004.
