#3 - You're All I Need to Get By / Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

05/21/20 • 23 min

The classic Motown duet, 'You're All I Need to Get By', seems to be about commitment - about a love which has recently been embarked on and which stretches ahead into the future - has come, perhaps surprisingly, to resonate with those mourning the loss of loved ones, including Marvin Gaye himself, who chose this song to play as he gave his eulogy at singing partner Tammi Terrell’s funeral. I look at this iconic soul recording, and in particular the song's use of pedal notes, extensions and inversions, to explore how it manages to chime with people in this way.
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05/21/20 • 23 min

The Secret Life of Songs - #3 - You're All I Need to Get By / Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

Transcript

You’re All I Need to Get By

Hello and welcome to the Secret Life of Songs - a podcast on the making - and the meaning - of classic pop records. I’m Anthony, a musician who writes and performs music under the name sky coloured. In the first episode of this series, looking at the Sam Cooke record, ‘Bring It On Home to Me’, I talked about the three most basic chords in tonal music - the tonic, which is formed on the first note of the scale, the dominant, on

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