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The #1 song from 50 years ago was Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”. _________________ Let’s Get It On Songwriters: Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend

I've been really tryin', baby Tryin' to hold back this feeling, for so long And if you feel like I feel, baby Then, c'mon, oh, c'mon

Let's get it on Ah, baby, let's get it on Let's love, baby Let's get it on, sugar Let's get it on

We're all sensitive people With so much to give Understand me, sugar Since we've got to be here Let's live I love you

There's nothing wrong with me Loving you, baby no no And giving yourself to me can never be wrong If the love is true, oh baby

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be

I'm asking you baby to get it on with me

I ain't gonna worry I ain't gonna push, won't push you baby So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby Stop beatin' 'round the bush

Let's get it on

Let's get it on You know what I'm talkin' about C'mon, baby, hey Let your love come out If you believe in love Let's get it on, ooh

Let's get it on, baby This minute, oh yeah Let's get it on Please, please get it on, hey hey

I know and you know what I've been dreaming of Don't you baby? My whole body makes that feelin' of love I'm happy I ain't gonna worry, no, I ain't gonna push I won't push you baby, woo

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, darlin' Stop beatin' 'round the bush

Oh, gonna get it on Threatenin' you, baby I wanna get it on You don't have to worry that it's wrong If the spirit moves ya Let me groove ya good Let your love come down

Oh, get it on C'mon, baby Do you know the meaning? I've been sanctified Girl, you give me good feeling So good, something like sanctified

Oh dear I, baby Nothing wrong with love If you want to love me Just let yourself go Oh baby Let's get it on

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i know a lot of people on this site like to dunk on ed sheeran just for existing or whatever, but more of you should care about and pay attention to the egregious lawsuit filed against him by the estate of ed townsend for what they ridiculously allege to be plagiarism on his part for the song "thinking out loud". just because it bears some similarities to marvin gaye's "let's get it on". if the estate wins their case, it could potentially set an extremely dangerous legal precedent for all new and old music going forward.

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Sam and Bill - For Your Love (1965)

I was looking through my 45 collection, and noticed this old scratched single that I hadn’t played more than once. Putting it on again, for a second I thought it was an incredibly famous song, or really that it should have been a big hit. Ed Townsend had a hit with it in 1958, and it’s a nice enough tune. But Sam and Bill just kill it (as does the piano player).

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Marvin Gaye - Lets get it on

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For your love

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Ed Townsend

Edward Benjamin 'Ed' Townsend (April 16, 1929 – August 13, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, producer and attorney. He performed and composed "For Your Love", a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and co-wrote "Let's Get It On" with Marvin Gaye.

Biography

Townsend was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee and his family soon moved to Memphis where his father was pastor at an African Methodist Episcopal church.

The year Townsend graduated from high school, he was elected to the International American Methodist Episcopal Youth Council (IAMEYC) and traveled worldwide before enrolling in college the next year at Arkansas State College. After graduating, he taught for a year. Although he never formally practiced law, he frequently used his law training to assist other entertainers in negotiating their recording and performance contracts.

In 1951, Townsend joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Korea. After his discharge, he recorded a number of singles for various labels, none of which made the charts. In 1958, he took his ballad, "For Your Love" to Capitol Records, hoping to interest Nat “King” Cole, but, impressed with his voice, Capitol signed him to record it himself. Dick Clark had just started American Bandstand on television and invited Townsend to sing the first month the show aired. He was an overnight success and the song peaked at number 13 in the Billboard Hot 100. Later in 1958 he reached #59 with a rendition of "When I Grow Too Old to Dream".

Townsend had no further vocal hits of his own. In 1962, he wrote a song for soul singer, Jimmy Holiday, "How Can I Forget?", which was later covered by Ben E. King. Then he wrote and produced Theola Kilgore’s "The Love Of My Man." He also composed "Tears Of Joy", "Hand It Over", "I Might Like It", "Since I Found You" and "Foolish Fool". In the early 1970s, Ed Townsend teamed up with Marvin Gaye to write one "Let's Get It On", from the album of the same title.

Townsend performaned on the PBS television special "Rock, Rhythm, and Doo Wop" filmed at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 16 and 17, 2000. DVDs of the event were sold as fundraisers for PBS stations nationwide.

Ed's son David Townsend, of the band Surface, died at age fifty in 2005.

Honored with a Purple Heart in the Korean War, Townsend is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.

Discography

AlbumsSingles

Filmography

Townsend served as Composer for:

The Ultimate Thrill (1974)

In the R&B world, he is best remembered for his work with Dee Dee Warwick on "I Wanna Be With You", "Foolish Fool" and "That's Not Love"

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♫ Let's Get It On ♫

I hope you’re in the mood for some Motown today!  I’ve promised for a week now to find a song I hadn’t played before, as I know some of you are tired of reduxes, and I just happened to think of this one tonight by the one and only Marvin Gaye!  It’s one I haven’t heard in ages, but a good one.  According to SongFacts … Originally written by 1950s one-hit-wonder Ed Townsend (“For Your Love” in…

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Ed Sheeran narrowly dodged a bullet with ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and a ‘classically simple chord change’ used in Marvin Gaye’s classic

Ed Sheeran narrowly dodged a bullet with ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and a ‘classically simple chord change’ used in Marvin Gaye’s classic #MarvinGaye #EdSheeran #ThinkingOutLoud #LetsGetItOn #TheftOrInfluence

(May 6, 2023). Theft or Influence? On Thursday, May 4, 2023, a Manhattan jury rendered its verdict in the highly publicized case of Ed Sheeran vs. Ed Townsend, a co-writer of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 No. 1 classic, “Let’s Get It On.” Not guilty. Or more accurately, not liable for his 2014 smash, “Thinking Out Loud” borrowing too liberally from the now 50-year-old soul classic co-penned by Townsend…

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