Marvin Gaye: Greatest Hits Alive

Star time, ladies and gentlemen.

Are you ready for the man?

[ Audience cheers ] The man who created such tunes as "What's Going On," "Let's Get It On," "I Want You," "After the Dance," "Save the Children."

Are you ready once again?

Ladies and gentlemen... once I'm going to give you the man who created, again, the tunes like... "Mercy, Mercy Me."

Ladies and gentlemen, Marvin Gaye!

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you!

Oh, if you want to do it Let's get it on How you going to act This time around?

Before we take it off Down to the skin Let's get an understanding Girl, you didn't understand My philosophy You did not understand You just ran away from me Oh, I missed you, baby Ooh, I missed you bad I missed you You're the best I ever had Ah, you're so bad, oh, baby But I must like you like that Although you won't let me Control this or that I still find you're Where it's at Now I see you're coming Straight to the point You say the more you get, baby Ah, the more you want me Yeah, darling, darling You're not wasting my time What I see, baby Is so hard to find Although you've been all over town, baby Having your affairs I still got to accept you back Angel, although you're promiscuous I don't mind a bit 'Cause you're still The greatest thing in bed You're miles ahead Whoo!

Girl, if you run away again Surely my heart Would never mend Thank you!

Don't tell me The love we made Was just for old times' sake Say the pain I put on your mind Was just so hard to take She said that pain Might never mend So let's be sometime lovers And, oh, baby That's when my poor heart broke If you got a girl And you want her for your wife You got to treat her good and love her all her life Oh, oh, baby Yes, baby.

Ooh, if you've got A little girl And you want her for your wife You better love her good Love her all her life, baby That's all right now Ooh, if you got a girl And you want her for your wife You got to love her good Love her all her life Oh, baby If you've got a lover And you want her for your wife Love her good Love her all her life Got to, got to, got to If you want a lover Want her for your wife Love her good Love her all All, all her life Be good to the girl!

Ooh-ooh, ooooh [ Cheers and applause ] [ Audience whistles ] Thank you.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

So nice to be here with you this evening.

I'd like to say hello.

Hello out there!

[ Audience shouts ] Hey.

Alright.

Sound like you're ready tonight.

Everybody feeling good?

Yeah!

Alright.

I need to feel good with you.

[ Chuckles ] We feel good up here, too.

This is a great place, baby.

Ah.

Let me hear everybody in the house say, "Ow!"

Ow!

Yes.

Feeling alright.

We want to sing a little bit of everything for you this evening if we can.

Few of the old things, few of the new things.

We sincerely hope that you all relax, lay back, check out the show.

Here's one from my very latest endeavor.

"I Want You."

This is a story about two lovers shouldn't have been.

Yeah, yeah, yeah They did the thing.

And went their separate way again.

Yeah, yeah, yeah Shoo-by Then by chance, oh, they happened to meet at a neighborhood dance, got that feeling all over again.

Shoo-by, shooby, dooby He said... "How much have you missed me since I had you" How much, ooh Oh, how much?

Oh, I really wondered Oh, baby Wonder if you remember, baby How good you made it to me, baby Such a thrill Been so hard Since I had you, baby Ah, baby, come on Give me a break It's been so hard Since I had you, baby My, oh, my eyes Must look serious 'Cause when I look at you I get delirious, oh, baby Your, oh, your voice Sounds so serious Since we're still friends Let me make love to you Again, baby Don't make me wait Been so hard since I had your sugar Oh, baby, don't make me wait Been so hard Since I had you, baby Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, baby Oh, baby [ Audience whistles ] Looking so good, baby I remember But what I remember most Is I was a fool to ever let you go, baby Oh Let me take you home this evening, baby Confess all my love to you, darling Ooh I want to tell you what a fool I've been, baby Ooooooooh Oh, baby Since I had you, girl I haven't wanted no other lover Ooh, ooh Since I had you, baby There hasn't been no other lady No other lover, ow Since I had you, baby I haven't wanted, darling, no other woman Ooh Since I tasted your lovin' I haven't wanted no other lady Ooh Since I tasted you Since I had All of your looooooove [ Cheers and applause ] [ Audience whistles ] Thank you.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Well, well, baby You know I love you And you've been gone Gone too long And when you left me, baby You stayed so long I said, "Baby Oh, baby Come and get your love" Let's get to this [ Audience shouts ] Whoo-hoo Come get to this Come and get it, baby Come get to this Oh, come on, baby Come on Come get to this Come get it, baby Come and get your love Come get to this Oh, sugar Oh, darling You've been gone too long, baby And I missed you, darling Oh, baby Come and get to this Ooh Baby Come here Let me caress you Oh, baby Honey, your letters Told me what you miss Come here, baby Get to this Oh, baby I want you here So I can do Something freaky to you I want to feel what I felt a long time ago, darling Oh, come here, baby Get to this [ "Let's Get It On" plays ] I've been really trying, baby Trying to hold back this feeling for so long And if you feel Like I feel, baby Then come on Oh, come on Whoo Let's get it on [ Cheers and applause ] Oh, baby Let's get it on Let's love, baby Let's get it on, oh, sugar Let's get on Whoo We're all sensitive people With so much to give Understand me, sugar Since we got to be here Let's live I love you There's nothing wrong With me loving you Baby, no, no, no And giving yourself to me can never be wrong If the love is true Oh, baby, whoo, whoo I know you know what I've been dreamin' of Don't you, baby?

Whoo My whole body wants that feelin' of love Whoo, happy, whoo-hoo, oh I ain't gonna worry I ain't gonna push Won't push you, baby, oh Whoo, come on, come on, come on Come on, come on, oh, baby Stop beatin' 'round the bush Oh Gonna get it on Threatenin' you, baby I wanna get it on Don't have to worry that it's wrong If the spirit moves Let me groove you good Let your love come, oh Oh Get it on Come on, baby Do you know the meaning?

I've been sanctified Whoo, whoo Give me good feeling So good, baby Somethin' like sanctified Oh, do right, baby Nothing wrong with love If you want to love me Just let yourself go Oh Let's get it on Please, please, baby Let's get it on Ow!

[ Cheers and applause ] Ooh, baby Oh, baby, let's get it on Sugar, you promised me You said, "Marvin, baby, this evening" Said we could get it on Oh, yes, you did I said, "Ooh, baby, I been waiting so long Now we're gonna get it on" Oh, baby Now, it's kind of warm in here.

Baby, let me get comfortable.

I just want to get comfortable I want to do it, sugar I want to get it on Oh, baby Oh, baby Let me get it on with you right now Wait a minute, baby.

Wait a minute.

Let me turn the music down a little bit low.

It's kind of warm in here, baby.

[ Cheers and applause ] Whoo, whoo Whoo, love me Let me, let me, let me Oh, let me, baby Well, I been loving you Oh, baby I've been loving you long time Let me, let me Baby Please, please, baby [ Cheers and applause ] Ooh, baby I want to get it on Whoo!

We want to get them lights real soft, darling.

Oh, baby Come on, sugar Give me all your lovin' Please, baby Give me all your love, baby [ Cheers and applause ] Oh!

[ Cheers and applause ] Ooh, I just want to love you Really, really love you Let me turn the lights down real low, baby.

Turn the lights down low Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you, folks!

That's all.

You didn't expect me to get naked, did you?

Thank you, y'all!

Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

Everybody still feeling alright?

Yeah!

Alright, then.

Thank you so much.

We're going to go back and grab a few oldies.

We hope they're goodies for you.

You've written in requests that we take you back a little bit to the '60s.

We hope you recognize some of these songs and enjoy them.

A little medley.

Hold on just a second.

Pardon me a minute.

Now, that's better, huh?

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

We're going to kick this off right now.

A-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four.

[ "Ain't That Peculiar" plays ] Whoo!

It was about 1966.

Honey, you do me wrong But still, I'm crazy about you Stay away too long And I can't do without you Any chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more Each hurt makes my love stronger than before I know flowers grow from rain But how can love grow from pain, baby?

Ain't that peculiar A peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, baby Whoo Peculiar as can be Yes, now.

Whoo!

Yeah, baby Honey, you're wonderful You're wonderful, baby Now you're a wonderful one This is one we really love, don't you?

In you there is a rare quality Your love, baby, means the world to me For me you're always concerned And you ask nothin', baby, in return You're really more than I deserve From my heart I mean these words You're a wonderful one Yes, now, baby You're a wonderful one Oh, baby Oh, baby Yeah!

Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah One more time!

Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby I try to put my arms around you Because I wanna hold you tight Every time I reach for you, baby Try to kiss you, you jump out of sight But I've got news for you I've made plans for two I'm a stubborn kind of fellow Got my mind made up to love you Oh!

Say yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby One more time Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah You are, oh, my pride and joy And I love you Love you, darlin' Like a baby boy loves his toy You've got kisses sweeter than honey I work seven days a week, give you all my money That's why you are my pride and joy Telling the world You're my pride and joy Oh, I'm your baby boy You're my pride and joy Baby, oh, baby Little darlin', I love you Darlin', I love you Darlin', I want you Darlin', I want you Little darlin', I need you Darlin', I need you Little darlin', got to have you Darlin', got to have you If it means giving up my pride I'm willing to give it up Give it up There's always one who loves more than the other But I don't mind I don't mind I'm willing to pay the price Have your love at any sacrifice Darlin', I love you Darlin' I love you Little darlin', I need you Darlin', I need you Little darlin', I want you Darlin', I want you Oh, darlin', got to have you Darlin', got to have you Whoo!

Here's one, baby.

[ "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" plays ] I bet you're wondering how I knew 'Bout your plans to make me blue With some other guy you knew before Between the two of us guys, you know I loved you more It took me by surprise, I must say When I found out yesterday Don't you know I heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine Well, I heard it through the grapevine I'm just about to lose my mind, honey, oh Oh, baby Sugar, I heard it That's what I did, baby Whoo!

[ "Hitch Hike" plays ] I got to get me a ride.

Going to Chicago The last place my baby stayed Hitchhike, baby Packing up my bags Going to leave this old town right away Hitchhike, baby Find that girl If I have to hitchhike all around the world Chicago city limits The sign on the highway read Hitchhike, baby I'll keep movin' Till I get to that street called 6th and 3rd Hitchhiking Gonna find that girl If I have to hitchhike all around the world Hitchhike Hitch a ride Hitchhike Hitch a ride Baby, you, you I see In my mirror in the mornin' Instead of seein' me I see you I see your face And inside me is a growing need For your embrace In the light of day Though our faces meet Someone there might see We never speak Till the dark of night Oh, while the moon is new When we whisper words of love In our secret rendezvous Though it's wrong, I know I love you so I love you, baby I need you, baby Need you Oh, baby I'm too busy thinking about my baby, baby Too busy thinking about my baby And I ain't got time for nothin' else No, no, baby I ain't got time to do no studying I don't have time to do no birdy watching I'm too busy thinking about my baby I'm too busy thinking about my baby You see, I love her and I'm too busy, ooh How sweet it is to be loved by you How sweet it is to be loved by you, baby Oh, yeah How sweet it is to be loved by you, baby Oh, Lordy, Lord How sweet it is to be loved by you You How sweet it is to be loved by you Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah How sweet it is to be loved by you Oh, yeah Ooh, baby, baby How sweet it is to be loved by you How sweet Sweet it is How sweet it is to be loved by you It's so sweet to me So good to me How sweet it is to be loved by you So wonderful So divine How sweet it is to be loved by you Oh, baby Somebody loves you How sweet it is to be loved by you So sweet Somebody loves you Oh, baby Got to, got to say How sweet How sweet it is How sweet it is How sweet it is to be loved by you Oh, baby Ladies and gentlemen, we thought we'd take this tune to express to you our heartfelt thanks for your wonderful support and your love for us.

That is very evident as I see you here.

We sincerely want to thank you and tell you that we reciprocate in every way.

We love you, too.

This is the perfect song to say how sweet it is to be loved by you.

That's why I say, baby How sweet, oh, how sweet it is, baby Bring it up one more time How sweet it is to be loved by you How sweet it is to be loved by you, darlin', darlin' How sweet it is to be loved by you You and you Oh, baby Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] Rockets, moon shots Spend it on the have-nots Money We make it Before we see it You take it Oh, makes me wanna holler The way they do my life Yeah, baby Makes me wanna holler The way they do my life This ain't living, this ain't living No, no, baby This ain't living No, no, no, oh, no Crime is increasing Trigger-happy policing Panic, well, it's spreading God knows where, where we're heading Whoo!

Well, makes me wanna holler Throw up both my hands Yeah, makes me wanna holler Throw up both my hands Whoo!

Oh!

I'm living inner city blues People... So many famous Down in the inner city Ow!

Ladies and gentlemen, we want to sing for you now a few excerpts from our "What's Going On" album.

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

Hope you enjoy.

Hang in there, baby.

[ "What's Going On" plays ] Mother, mother [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

There's too many of you crying Mother, mother, mother Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying Brother, brother, brother You know we've got to find a way We've got to find a way To bring some lovin' Here today Oh, baby Father, father Mother, father, father We don't need to escalate Oh, baby, oh, baby War is not the answer Mother, father Only love can conquer hate Mother, father You know we've got to find a way We've got to find a way Bring some understandin' Here today Good God Picket lines Sister Picket signs Sister Don't punish me Sister With brutality Sister Oh, talk to me Sister So you can see Sister What's going on What's going on What's going on What's going on What's going on What's going on Yeah, what's going on, baby Whoo!

Whoo!

I know, baby Right on.

I know what's going on Hey, all you have to do [ Indistinct talking, singing ] Whoo!

And I know what's going on Whoo!

Right on.

Right on.

I just want to ask a question.

Who really cares... to save a world in despair?

Who really cares?

Oooh-oooh There'll come a time When the world won't be singing Flowers won't grow Oh, no, baby Bells won't be ringin' Yeah Who really cares?

Who is willing to try?

Oh, little darlin' To save a world That is destined To die When I look at the world It fills me with sorrow Little children today Oh, you gotta hear me They're gonna suffer tomorrow Oh What a shame, what a shame What a shame Such a bad way to live Oh, but who Is to blame?

When we can't Stop living Ohhh Live for life Live for life People, but let live everybody Live, live life for The children Oh, for the children Oh, baby, baby Oh, would you hear me now Save the babies Oh, baby Save the babies And if you want to love, you've got to Save the children Save, save the babies Ohhhh Save the babies Save the children Ohh All of the children [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you so much.

[ Shouts indistinctly ] I am, doll.

I'm gonna do that.

Don't you worry about a thing.

Ladies and gentlemen, in the past, you've sent in requests for songs that we... used to sing in the '60s.

We had female singing partners.

That was Miss Mary Wells.

Miss Kim Weston.

Miss Diana Ross.

Miss Tammi Terrell, ladies and gentlemen.

[ Cheers and applause ] And you've send in requests that we sing some of these songs for you.

And now we'd like to.

But before we do, we'd like to call to the stage to help us sing it the services of Miss Florence Lyles.

Ladies and gentlemen, give a big round of applause, will you, for Miss Florence Lyles.

Come on, Flo!

[ Applause ] Thank you, beautiful.

To get by You're all Sing the song, sing the song I need Oh, baby To get by Oh, it's all I need I'm sure You're all I need To get by Oh, it's alright Honey, honey, honey You're all Whatever I need, baby I need I just call on you, baby To get by Oh, so good Ooh, baby You're all Like sweet morning dew I need I took one look at you To get by It was plain to see You were my destiny With my arms open wide I threw away my pride I sacrifice for you Dedicate my life for you I will go where you lead Always there in time of need And when I lose my will You'll be there to push me up the hill There's no, no looking back for us We got love, sure 'nough, that's enough You're all You're all I need To get by Aw, baby.

Ooh, yeah Sugar, you're all I need Oh, you're all I need Whoo!

Ooh Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing Ooh I've got your picture hanging on the wall But it can't see or come to me when I call your name I realize it's just a picture in a frame Ooh, I read your letters when you're not near But they don't move me and they don't groove me Like when I hear Your sweet voice whispering in my ear Don't you know?

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing Oh.

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing Ooh!

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Nobody in this world Ain't nothing, nothing like the real thing Like my sweet, sweet baby Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing, yeah [ "Your Precious Love" plays ] [ Cheers and applause ] You know, Flo.

Oh, I just wanna talk to you a minute, babe Wanna tell you how I really feel, baby Ooh Every day There's something new Honey, to keep me lovin' you And with every passin' minute Oh, baby, so much joy wrapped up in it Oh Heaven must have sent you from above Oh Heaven must have sent your precious love Ooh And now I've got a song to sing Tellin' the world About the joy you bring To me, baby And you gave me You gave me a reason for livin' And, ooh, you taught me You taught me the reason for givin' Oh Heaven must have sent you from above Oh Heaven must have sent your precious love Whoo!

[ "It Takes Two" plays ] One can have a dream, baby Two can make that dream so real One can talk about being in love Two can say how it really feels Yeah Oh, baby One can wish upon a star Two can make that wish come true, yeah, baby One can stand alone in the dark Two can make the light shine through It takes two, baby It takes two, baby Me and you Just takes two Oh, baby It takes two, baby It takes two, baby To make a dream come true Just takes two Whoo!

[ "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" plays ] Yeah.

Listen, baby Ain't no mountain high Ain't no valley low Ain't no river wide enough, baby If you need me, call me, no matter where you are No matter how far Don't worry, baby Just call my name I'll be there in a hurry You don't have to worry 'Cause, baby, there ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you, baby Remember the day I set you free I told you you could always count on me From that day on, I made a vow I'll be there when you want me some way, somehow 'Cause, baby, there ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you, baby Oh!

Ooh, yeah No wind, no rain There ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough No, there ain't no Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from Yeah Getting to... Yeah, baby I would cross a burning desert, baby Yes, I'm going, baby I could swim the deepest sea, darlin' [ Vocalizing ] Climb the highest mountain Yeah 'Cause I love you, baby I'm gonna come to you, baby And there ain't nothing Yes, I hear you Yes, I Your concern Yes, I hear you, oh, yeah Oh, sugar, sugar I'm gonna come, yeah Baby, baby There ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you, babe Oh!

Yeah, yeah Oh!

Whoo-hoo-hoo [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

How about a big round of applause for Florence Lyles, ladies and gentlemen?

Oh, beautiful, Flo.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Flo, Flo, here's some beautiful flowers for you.

[ "Distant Lover" plays ] Want to sing about a distant lover, baby.

Oh, baby Well Well, when When a man loses the only woman he loves It's a sad, sad thing, y'all.

You see, a man wants to be a man Said they're not supposed to cry Oh, but the tears come streaming from your eyes You see, I know.

I used to come home from work.

To my lonely room Well, and look at my four walls.

Say, baby, why did you leave me?

Please come back home, baby Sometimes I crawl out of bed.

I hit the floor, I want to cry.

Say, please Ohh.

Distant lover [ Cheers and applause ] Lover Oh, baby Oooh-oooh So many miles away Ooh Heaven knows That I long for you Every night Every night, hey Sometimes I yearn through the day, baby, baby Distant lover Ooh Lover, lover, lover Lover You should think about me Say a prayer for me Please Oh, please Think about me sometimes, baby Think about me here In misery, baby Ooh, save me, baby As I reminisce Through our joyful summer together The promises we made, baby All the daily letters Then all of a sudden Everything seemed to explode Oh, baby I gaze out my window Down a lonesome road Ooh Distant lover Lover, lover, lover Whoo-hoo How can you treat my heart So mean and cruel Didn't you know Every moment That I spent with you I treasured it Like it was a precious jewel Please save me, baby Lord, have mercy I don't understand, I'm beggin' I said, please don't go, baby Ooh, I'm beggin' Come back, baby Oh Somethin' I wanna say When you left, you took all of me with you Oh, geez Now all I wonder Do you wanna hear me plead, scream Well Please Oh, please, baby Come back home, girl Oh, baby Oh Why, baby Please, darlin' Oh Whoo!

Come back home Oh Yeah [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you so much.

We want you to take care of yourself, love.

Because whatever you may think or read or see, remember Marvin Gaye loves you.

Marvin Gaye loves you!

We want you all to have a safe trip.

We want to thank you for your love and your peace and emotion and kindness.

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