"That's the Way Love Is" is a 1967 Tamla (Motown) single recorded by The Isley Brothers and produced by Norman Whitfield.[1]
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"That's the Way Love Is" | ||||
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Single by Marvin Gaye | ||||
from the album M.P.G./That's the Way Love Is | ||||
B-side | "Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love" | |||
Released | August 7, 1969 | |||
Recorded | 1969, Hitsville U.S.A. | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 3:35 | |||
Label | Tamla | |||
Songwriter(s) | Norman Whitfield Barrett Strong | |||
Producer(s) | Norman Whitfield | |||
Marvin Gaye singles chronology | ||||
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The single was later covered in a 1969 hit version by Marvin Gaye. It was his third consecutive million-selling solo hit after "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" written by Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Whitfield took the up-tempo Isley Brothers record, and turned it into a slowed-down psychedelic soul opus. Like "Grapevine", Gaye delivers the song in an emotionally wrought fashion, approaching a preacher-like tone through which he tells a woman to "forget" her lover now that the lover has gone off to someone else.
The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop singles chart and held the #2 spot for five weeks on the soul singles chart in October 1969[2][3] (it was held off by The Temptations' "I Can't Get Next To You"), eventually selling a million copies.
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