Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing

"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" is a 1968 single released by American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, on the Tamla label in 1968. The B-side of the single is Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl from the duo's "United" LP. The first release off the duo's second album, You're All I Need, the song, written and produced by longtime Gaye/Terrell collaborators Ashford & Simpson, became a hit within weeks of release eventually peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart, their first of two number ones hit together on that specific chart.

Cover versions

In 1969 Diana Ross and the Supremes with The Temptations covered the song, from the album Together.
In 1970 The Supremes & The Four Tops together covered the song on their album The Magnificent 7.
In 1972 The Jackson 5 covered the song on their album Lookin' Through the Windows.
In 1974, Aretha Franklin re-recorded the song and released it as a single following the success of her song "Until You Come Back to Me", from the album Let Me in Your Life.
In 1976 Donny & Marie Osmond covered the song on their album New Season. Their version was a moderate hit in early 1977, peaking at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1994, Gladys Knight and Vince Gill recorded the song for the Rhythm Country and Blues album where rhythm and blues singer collabrated with country music singers.

Credits

All lead vocals by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Background vocals by The Andantes, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson
Produced by Ashford & Simpson
Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

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Lyrics Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.

Vinyl singles consist of one or more tracks on a traditional gramophone record.

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Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and performer who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Tammi Terrell (born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery) (April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970) was an American soul singer, most notable for her association with Motown and her duets with Marvin Gaye.
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You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell)
(1968) M.P.G.
(1969)
Tammi Terrell chronology

United (with Marvin Gaye)
(1967) You're All I Need (with Marvin Gaye)
(1968) Irresistible
(1969)

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Soul Music is the sixteenth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, first published in 1994. Like many of Pratchett's novels it introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval, early modern world of the Disc, in this case Rock and Roll
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Nickolas Ashford (born May 4, 1942, in Fairfield, South Carolina) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946 in The Bronx, New York) are a successful husband and wife songwriting/production team, as well as being recording artists in their own right.
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Released 1967
Format 7" Single
Recorded Hitsville USA; 1968
Genre Soul/pop
Label Tamla
T 54163
Writer(s) Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, and Vernon Bullock
Peak chart positions

7 Pop, #3 R&B

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Released April 1968
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA, Detroit, Michigan; 1967
Genre R&B/soul
Length 2:38
Label Tamla
Writer(s) Nickolas Ashford
Valerie Simpson
Producer(s) Ashford & Simpson
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Motto
"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay
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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly known by various names including Hot Soul Singles, Hot Black Singles, and Hot R&B Singles (before the hip-hop term was added in the late 1990s), is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.
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1966 1967 1968 - 1969 - 1970 1971 1972

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*:1969 (number)

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