Please Stay (Once You Go Away)

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“Please Stay (Once You Go Away)”
“Please Stay (Once You Go Away)” cover
Song by Marvin Gaye
Album Let's Get It On
Released 1973
Recorded 1973, Hitsville West, Los Angeles, California
Genre Soul
Length 3:28
Label Tamla
Writer Marvin Gaye
Ed Townsend
Producer Marvin Gaye
Ed Townsend
Let's Get It On track listing
"Let's Get It On"
(1)
Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
(2)
"If I Should Die Tonight"
(3)


"Please Stay (Once You Go Away)" is a 1973 song written by Ed Townsend and Marvin Gaye and issued on Marvin's 1973 album, Let's Get It On. As a mood piece type of song, it followed the similar musical path of "Let's Get It On" while produced under a shorter time period. The song follows Marvin as a woman leaves him after a romantic night before, this song segued in on the title track.

[edit] Credits

  • All vocals by Marvin Gaye
  • Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles musicians
  • Produced by Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend