Just to Keep You Satisfied

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“Just to Keep You Satisfied”
Let's Get It On cover
Let's Get It On cover
Song by Marvin Gaye
Album Let's Get It On
Released 1973
Recorded 1973
Genre Soul
Length 4:27
Label Tamla
Writer Marvin Gaye
Elgie Stover
Anna Gordy Gaye
Producer Marvin Gaye
Let's Get It On track listing
"You Sure Love to Ball"
(7)
Just to Keep You Satisfied
(8)


"Just to Keep You Satisfied" is a ballad by singer Marvin Gaye.

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

Originally penned by Gaye as a song about a husband's devotion to his wife, Gaye produced versions with The Miracles, The Monitors and The Originals, who later supplied background vocals for Gaye's version.

Gaye, in the final stages of his marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye, rewrote the original devoted tune into a more somber and autobiographical song with Elgie Stover but in the liner notes of his album kept his wife's name as a co-writer.

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 and Lisa Stansfield, who was a longtime Marvin fan. The original version was played during the movie, Baby Boy and was even sampled on Mary J. Blige's single, "When We", from her Love & Life album.

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