Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On” 1973. Today, April 2nd, would have been Gaye’s 80th birthday (b. Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. 1939, d. 1984, shot by his father). Let’s Get It On was his 13th studio album and his most successful, considered a landmark for soul and on many best-of album lists of all-time. It went to #2 on the US Top LPs chart and #1 on Soul LP’s list in ‘73, propelled by the title track single “Let’s Get It On” which hit #1 on both the Hot 100 and Hot Soul charts and eventually became the biggest selling Motown release of all-time. He released two other singles from Let’s Get It On: “Come Get to This” (#21 on the Hot 100 and #3 on the Hot Soul singles chart) and “You Sure Love to Ball” (#50 Hot 100, #13 Hot Soul), that track putting to rest any possible question of Gaye’s main subject matter. Allmusic says about Let’s Get It On, “With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let’s Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later – much copied, but never imitated.”