GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Aint Nothing Like the Real Thing (#7)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86993)
United States
May 25, 2021 10:16am CST
Ooh, look, my McAlister’s is back to full capacity!! AND they have the sweetener out so I don’t have to ask for it!!!! NORMALCY! I’m still wearing a mask, though, because I’m still showing antibodies so I can’t get vaccinated for at least two more months. What does that have to do with today’s Motown song from Marvin Gaye? It’s an appropriate title, I think....
#7: Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (With Tammi Terrell)
Yeah, things are getting back to real! 
Marvin was not only a great singer on his own, he scored a number of duet hits with Kim Weston, and later, Tammi Terrell.
Now, if you think Gaye’s life was tragic, how about Tammi? As a teenager, she became involved with James Brown, who wasn’t exactly a gentleman (reports are he beat her regularly and savagely). And in 1967, while performing onstage with Gaye, she collapsed. The doctors found a malignant brain tumor.
Although she could record more music, she wasn’t the same, and she died from brain cancer in 1970. She was just 24 years old.
Marvin delivered a eulogy at her funeral.
What could’ve been. But at least we have what was, and that was GREAT music.
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Written by Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson
Duet with Tammi Terrell
From You’re All I Need, 1968
I read your letter:
#7: Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (With Tammi Terrell)
Yeah, things are getting back to real!
Marvin was not only a great singer on his own, he scored a number of duet hits with Kim Weston, and later, Tammi Terrell.
Now, if you think Gaye’s life was tragic, how about Tammi? As a teenager, she became involved with James Brown, who wasn’t exactly a gentleman (reports are he beat her regularly and savagely). And in 1967, while performing onstage with Gaye, she collapsed. The doctors found a malignant brain tumor.
Although she could record more music, she wasn’t the same, and she died from brain cancer in 1970. She was just 24 years old.
Marvin delivered a eulogy at her funeral.
What could’ve been. But at least we have what was, and that was GREAT music.
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Written by Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson
Duet with Tammi Terrell
From You’re All I Need, 1968
I read your letter:
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
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@RasmaSandra (98187)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 May 21
Now this is one I like but never heard before,
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