| "Got To Give It Up" is a 1977 hit single recorded by American soul music legend Marvin Gaye. The song held the number one position on the US Billboard Hot 100 for one week, from June 18, 1977 to June 25. On the R&B Singles Charts it held the number one spot for five weeks. On the disco charts the single was also a number one hit. The song, solely written by Gaye and produced by Art Stewart, is about a man who was too shy to get on the floor and dance. But the groove allows him to lose himself in the music and dance, connecting with the people around him. Initially "Got To Give It Up" in its 11-minutes-plus version was included as the final side of his 1977 double-album live collection, "Live At The London Palladium". The song was issued as an edited four minutes-plus-release, titled "Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1" and became Gaye's biggest hit, with sales exceeding two million copies, since his seminal 1973 anthem, "Let's Get It On". The single reached number one simultaneously on Billboard's pop, R&B and dance singles charts and continued the singer's embrace of disco music following the release of 1976's "I Want You". The song helped Gaye's live album, "Live At The London Palladium", which also featured the song in its full entirety, reach the top five of the albums chart and helped it become one of the best-selling albums of that year while "Got To Give It Up" was one of the best-selling singles of that year. The song became a precursor to the familiar percussion-led ... |
