Track Listing
1. Here My Dear
2. I Met A Little Girl
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me When Did I Stop Loving You
4. Anger
5. Is That Enough
6. Everybody Needs Love
7. Time To Get It Together
8. Sparrow
9. Anna's Song
10. When Did You Stop Loving Me When Did I Stop Loving You (instrumental)
11. Funky Space Reincarnation
12. You Can Leave But It's Gonna Cost You
13. Falling In Love Again
14. When Did You Stop Loving Me When Did I Stop Loving You (reprise)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Marvin Gaye | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music |
Album Notes
Personnel: Marvin Gaye (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Gordon Banks, Wali Ali (guitar); Ernie Fields (alto saxophone); Charles Owens, Fernando Harkness (tenor saxophone); Nolan Smith (trumpet); Frank Blair (bass); Bugsy Wilcox (drums); Gary Jones, Elmira Colins (percussion).Reissue producer: Cary E. Mansfield.Recorded at Marvin Gaye Studio, Hollywood, California. HERE MY DEAR was originally released on Tamla (364) as a 2 LP set. Includes liner notes by David Ritz and Curtis M. Shaw.Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot & Dan Hersch (DigiPrep Studios).A concept album of some magnitude, although the subject matter could hardly have been comfortable listening for Anna, Marvin Gaye's ex-wife. She was the subject of Gaye's public 'divorce album', a clever idea if there were no real people involved. The illustration on the sleeve depicts love, marriage, pain and divorce, in addition to the scales of justice (equal). This lengthy album (originally a double vinyl) was poorly received by the critics, although now it has grown in stature, and it really does have considerable depth and melody. Let's face it, if Gaye sang a gardening seed catalogue from cover to cover it would be brilliant.
Editorial Reviews
Voted Best Reissue Album in the 1995 Critic's Poll.Q (3/00, p.126) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Relationship Albums Of All Time - ...due to the chaotic state of his finances Gaye was ordered to give the profits of his next album to his ex-wife [Anna Gordy]. Result: this bizarre but gripping double, a bitterness concept album designed to make as little money as possible...Alternative Press (5/01, p.104) - Included in AP's 10 Essential Breakup Albums - ...Some of the most personal material he ever recorded...Vibe (5/94, p.105) - ...incorporates all of his techniques: sweet doo-wop romanticism...pop-gospel yearnings...and soul abandon...amid what could be called his most personal of records...Gaye may have been at his most lucid: vocally inventive, musically experimental, and finally, emotionally unrestrained....
Rolling Stone (01/25/1995)
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