Just in time for Valentine's Day we recognize one of R&B's strongest pairs -- in life and in music.
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Ashford and Simpson: The Soundtrack to Black Love
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
Some 40-plus years after its release, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough" may be the most recognizable Soul duet ever recorded. It’s easy to think that the song’s timelessness has everything to do with the musical bond that Gaye and Terrell shared, in the studio and on stage, but in reality Terrell recorded her vocals for the songs months before Gaye did; The duo were not in the studio together for the recording of the song.
While Gaye and Terrell did find studio magic on tracks like “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” “You’re All I Need to Get By,” and “Your Precious Love,” the one constant on those recordings was the song-writing and production team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. The duo was in their early twenties when Motown head Berry Gordy entrusted them with some of the label’s marquee acts, beginning a more than 40-year career where their songs have served as the soundtrack to Black love.
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Ashford and Simpson: The Soundtrack to Black Love
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
Some 40-plus years after its release, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough" may be the most recognizable Soul duet ever recorded. It’s easy to think that the song’s timelessness has everything to do with the musical bond that Gaye and Terrell shared, in the studio and on stage, but in reality Terrell recorded her vocals for the songs months before Gaye did; The duo were not in the studio together for the recording of the song.
While Gaye and Terrell did find studio magic on tracks like “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” “You’re All I Need to Get By,” and “Your Precious Love,” the one constant on those recordings was the song-writing and production team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. The duo was in their early twenties when Motown head Berry Gordy entrusted them with some of the label’s marquee acts, beginning a more than 40-year career where their songs have served as the soundtrack to Black love.
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