Formed in 1966, the group originally consisted of bass singer Freddie Gorman, baritone (and the group's founder) Walter Gaines, and tenors C. The Originals often called "Motown's best-kept secret", were a successful Motown R&B and soul group during the late 1960s and the 1970s, most notable for the hits "Baby I'm for Real", "The Bells" and the disco classic, "Down to Love Town". Blige's single "When We", from her Love & Life album.
The original version was played during the movie Baby Boy and was sampled on Mary J. The song was covered by Kenny Lattimore on the Gaye tribute album, Marvin Is 60, and was also covered by the likes of Randy Crawford, Howard Hewett, Nancy Wilson (jazz singer) and longtime Marvin Gaye fan Lisa Stansfield. The song was featured at the end of Let's Get It On and concluded with Gaye's spoken vocals in which he says in a soft tone, "oh well, all we can do is we can both try to be happy." Like most of Gaye's ballads during this period, the song reflected the singer's doo-wop roots.
In an alternate version, the Originals vocals are edited completely out of the song and replaced with background vocals by Gaye. He edited out the percussion from the Originals recording and also kept just their background vocals from the 1970 version, and overdubbed mixes with his own vocals. For "Satisfied", he decided to re-write "Satisfied" to contrast most of the songs' subject matter in response to his collapse in his relationship with Anna. Marvin had based most of the songs on Let's Get It On, on sexual and romantic relationships. In 1973, while working on his album, Let's Get It On, Gaye was going through a public separation with his wife, Anna, who was the co-writer of the original "Satisfied". This song was produced in a proto-quiet storm format and included a false fade.īoth versions by the Monitors and the Originals weren't released as singles. Gaye can be obviously heard in this version first singing "oh I love you girl/oh I love my woman" and also accompanied them in the background with the refrain, "I'll keep you satisfied, satisfied" while the other Originals improvised vocals while their original background vocals of "ooh baby" were repeated. In 1970, Marvin re-recorded the song with a different musical background and different lyrics for the Originals, who were having hits with Gaye's compositions, "Baby I'm for Real" and "The Bells", with Henry Dixon taking most of the leads. The following year, Gaye used the original music for the Monitors version for his religious composition, "God is Love". The latter group recorded an early version of the song, which was originally a love ballad and featured future Temptations member Richard Street performing the lead vocals. However, The song's progress started in 1969 when Marvin began writing his own songs and was testing the songs out on other artists, most notably second-tier acts signed to Motown including the Originals and the Monitors. The song was the b-side to Marvin's modest 1974 hit, "You Sure Love to Ball" and was the eighth and final song issued on the singer's 1973 album, Let's Get It On. "Just to Keep You Satisfied" is a song by soul singer Marvin Gaye. The Originals recorded Hitsville-GW, completed 21-Sep-70 produced by Marvin Gaye arranged by Dave Van DePitte ġ8-Nov-70 45 (M): Soul S 35079 B Ģ3-Mar-99 CD (S): Motown 31454 9506 2 The Very Best Of The Originalsġ8-Sep-01 CD (M): Motown 014 757 2 Let's Get It On DeLuxe EditionĢ7-Jun-08 CD (M): Hip-O Select B0011056-02 The Complete Motown Singles Vol. The Monitors recorded Hitsville-GW, completed 05-Jun-68 produced by Richard Morris Marvin Gaye recorded Hitsville-GW / MoWest produced by Marvin Gaye arranged by Dave Van DePitte Īug-73 LP (S): Tamla T329V1 Let's Get It OnĢ5-Apr-95 CD (S): Motown 530 492 2 The Master 1961-1984Ġ3-Sep-96 CD: Motown 530 529 2 Anthology / The Best Of Marvin Gayeġ8-Sep-01 CD (S): Motown 014 757 2 Let's Get It On DeLuxe Editionġ8-Sep-01 CD (S): Motown 014 757 2 Let's Get It On DeLuxe Edition Just To Keep You Satisfied (Anna Gordy Gaye-Elgie Stover-Marvin Gaye) published Jobete