Album · 2001
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Stubborn Kind of Fellow
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:46
2
Hitch Hike
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:34
3
Pride and Joy
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:08
4
Can I Get a Witness
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:51
5
You're a Wonderful One
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:44
6
How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:58
7
I'll Be Doggone
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:49
8
Ain't That Peculiar
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:01
9
It Takes Two
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:59
10
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:29
11
Your Precious Love
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:05
12
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:22
13
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:16
14
You're All I Need to Get By
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:51
15
You
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:28
16
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:16
17
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:58
18
That's the Way Love Is
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:44
19
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (stereo mix)
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:49
Disc 2
1
What's Going On
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:53
2
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:14
3
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
5:29
4
You're the Man, Parts 1 & 2
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
5:49
5
Where Are We Going?
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:57
6
Trouble Man
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:51
7
Let's Get It On
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
4:54
8
Come Get to This
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
2:42
9
Distant Lover (live)
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
6:19
10
I Want You
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:58
11
Got to Give It Up
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
11:53
12
Anger
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
4:04
13
Ego Tripping Out
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
7:14
14
Praise
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
4:53
15
Sexual Healing
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
3:59
In print
First pressed 2001, still pressed 2007 — 14 pressings across 7 countries.
Credits
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Arranger
Dale Oehler
Arranger
David Van dePitte
Arranger
René Hall
Arranger
Mathieu Bitton
Art Direction
Vartan
Art Direction
Gene Page
Conductor
Studio Eric Wondergem BNO
Design
Checo Tohomaso
Instrument · percussion
David II
Instrument · saxophone
Frank Blair
Instrument · bass guitar
Gordon Banks
Instrument · lead guitar
Howard Westbrook
Instrument · rhythm guitar
Joseph Mayo
Instrument · congas
Lonnie Liston Smith
Instrument · keyboards
Preston McRae Wilcox
Instrument · drums
Reginald Mullen
Instrument · trumpet
Richard Griffith
Instrument · horns
Rick Gardner
Instrument · trumpet
Sandra Akaka
Instrument · congas
William Bryant
Instrument · piano
Akiyama Sisters Inc. E.
Liner Notes
David Ritz
Liner Notes
泉山真奈美
Liner Notes
Kevin Reeves
Mastering · remastered by [digitally]
Jim Hendin
Photography
Art Stewart
Producer
Ashford & Simpson
Producer
Berry Gordy
Producer · executive-producer
Ed Townsend
Producer
Fonce Mizell
Producer
Freddie Perren
Producer
Fuqua & Bristol
Producer
Harry Weinger
Producer · compilation producer
Harvey Fuqua
Producer
Henry Cosby
Producer
Holland–Dozier
Producer
Jeff Moskow
Producer · executive-producer
Larkin Arnold
Producer · executive-producer
Marvin Gaye
Producer · executive-producer
Norman Whitfield
Producer
Smokey Robinson
Producer
William Stevenson
Producer
Frankie Bates
Vocal · backing vocals
Lecester R Kentle
Vocal · backing vocals
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Vocal · backing vocals [vocal accompaniment by]
Robert Stevenson
Vocal · backing vocals
Tammi Terrell
Vocal · vocals
Al Cleveland
Writer
Arthur “T‐Boy” Ross
Writer
Clarence Paul
Writer
Delta Ashby
Writer
George Gordy
Writer
Gwen Fuqua
Writer
Holland–Dozier–Holland
Writer
Ivy Jo Hunter
Writer
Jack Goga
Writer
James Nyx
Writer
Janie Bradford
Writer
Jeffrey Bowen
Writer
Johnny Bristol
Writer
Kenny Stover
Writer
Laraaji
Writer
Larry Mizell
Writer
Leon Ware
Writer
Marvin Tarplin
Writer
Odell Brown
Writer
Renaldo Benson
Writer
Ronald White
Writer
Sandra Greene
Writer
Sylvia Moy
Writer
[traditional]
Writer
Vernon Bullock
Writer
Warren “Pete” Moore
Writer
Whitfield-Strong
Writer