Your_Precious_Love

Your Precious Love

Your Precious Love

1967 single by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

"Your Precious Love" is a popular song that was a 1967 hit for Motown singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The song was written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol. The doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Fuqua, Gaye, Terrell and Bristol, and instrumentals by The Funk Brothers with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The song peaked at #5 on Billboard Pop Singles chart,[1] #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart, and the top 40 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.[2][3] The song was later sampled by Gerald Levert on the song, "Your Smile", on his 2002 album, The G Spot.

Quick Facts from the album United, B-side ...

Billboard described the single as "a soulful blues ballad."[4] Billboard also felt that both "Your Precious Love" and its b-side "Hold Me Oh My Darling" had equal sales potential as the duos previous hit single "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."[4]

Other versions

References

  1. [1]
    "Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales". Billboard. Retrieved May 21, 2009.
  2. [2]
    The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 7: 1967 [CD liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records
  3. [3]
    Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 225.
  4. [4]
    "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. September 2, 1967. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Your_Precious_Love, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.