SATURDAY;S SINGLES : MARVIN GAYE and MILLI VANILLI

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Good morning gang and welcome back to Saturday's Singles. Our first single is "Let's Get It On" by "Prince of Motown", Marvin Gaye, who would have celebrated his 83rd Birthday today. He died  April 1, 1984 after an altercation with his father, Marvin Gaye Sr., who fatally shot his son.  "Let's Get It On", the title track to Gaye's thirteenth studio album, was released June 15, 1973 on the  Tamla label and produced by Marvin Gaye. It peaked at #31 in the UK, #11 in Canada, and #1 on the Hot 100 and  Hot Soul Singles charts, and has been certified Platinum in the US. It's flip side is "I Wish It Would Rain", a cover of The Temptations' 1967 song. 

Orchestral arrangement, Conducting:  René Hall 

Bass: James Jamerson, Wilton Felder

Bongos: Bobbye Hall Porter

Bongos, Drums: Eddie "Bongo" Brown

Drums: Paul Humphrey, Uriel Jones

Mallet percussion: Emil Richards

Percussion (Special treatment): Bobbye Hall Porter

Saxophone: Ernie Watts, Plas Johnson

Piano: Joe Sample, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Jerkins

Production, lead vocals, background vocals: Marvin Gaye

Vibraphone: Emil Richards, Victor Feldman

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Also on this day, in 1998, famed and later infamous German singer, dancer, model, and rapper, Rob Pilatus, of Milli Vanilli, died at age 32 from a accidental drug and alcohol overdose. The duo (Pilatus and  Fab Morvan) released "Girl You Know It's True", the title track to their North American debut record, in December 1988 on Arista Records. The song reached #1 in Austria, Greece, Spain, West Germany, as well as the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. It's B-side is "Magic Touch".

Fab Morvan – visual performance (credited with "vocals")
Rob Pilatus – visual performance (credited with "vocals")

John Davis – lead vocals (credited with "backing vocals")

Brad Howell – lead vocals (credited with "backing vocals")

Charles Shaw – lead vocals (credited with "backing vocals")

P. G. Wilder – keyboards, arrangements
Pit Loew – keyboards, arrangements
Volker Barber – keyboards, arrangements

Peter Weihe – guitars
Jens Gad – guitars
Ike Turner – guitars
Bruce Ingram – guitars

Mel Collins – saxophone

Curt Cress – drums, percussion

Dino Solera – horns
Felice Civitareale – horns
Franz Weyerer – horns
Dino Solera – horns, horn arrangements

Linda Rocco – backing vocals
Jodie Rocco – backing vocals
Joan Faulkner – backing vocals
Felicia Taylor – backing vocals
The Jackson Singers – backing vocals
Charles Christopher – backing vocals
Herbert Gebhard – backing vocals
Bimey Oberreit – backing vocals
Peter Rishavy – backing vocals

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