That's the Way Love Is

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"That's the Way Love Is" is a 1967 Tamla (Motown) single recorded by The Isley Brothers and produced by Norman Whitfield, later covered in a 1969 hit version by Marvin Gaye.

The single was his third consecutive million-selling solo hit after "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" written by Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Whitfield took the up-tempo Isley Brothers record, and turned it into a slowed-down psychedelic soul opus. Like "Grapevine", the song is sung by an emotionally-wrought Gaye, singing the song in a preacher-like tone, who tells a woman to "forget" her lover now that that lover has gone off to someone else.

The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop singles chart and held the #2 spot for five weeks on the soul singles chart in October 1969, eventually selling a million copies.


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Marvin Gaye
Studio albums
Duet albums
Together (1964)  · Take Two (1966)  · United (1967)  · You're All I Need (1968)  · Easy (1969)  · Diana & Marvin (1973)
Live albums
Soundtrack albums
Posthumous albums
Dream of a Lifetime (1985)  · Romantically Yours (1986)  · Vulnerable (1997)
Singles
(US/UK Top Ten singles)
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