For the album by Yotam Ben Horin, see Distant Lover (album).
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"Distant Lover"
Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album Let's Get It On
A-side
"Come Get to This"
Released
1973
Recorded
November 3, 1970 – July 20, 1973
Studio
Hitsville U.S.A. (Detroit)
Hitsville West (Hollywood)
Genre
Soul
quiet storm[1]
psychedelic soul
Length
4:15
Label
Tamla
Songwriter(s)
Marvin Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Sandra Greene
Producer(s)
Marvin Gaye
Audio sample
file
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"Distant Lover (live)"
Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album Marvin Gaye Live!
Released
June 28, 1974
Recorded
January 4, 1974 Oakland Coliseum (Oakland, California)
Genre
Soul
Length
6:20 (album version) 3:45 (single version)
Label
Tamla
Songwriter(s)
Marvin Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Sandra Greene
Producer(s)
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye singles chronology
"Don't Knock My Love" (1974)
"Distant Lover (live)" (1974)
"I Want You" (1976)
"Distant Lover" is the sixth song issued on singer Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, Let's Get It On and the B-side of the second single from that album, "Come Get to This". A live recording was issued as a single in 1974. The live version of the song was Gaye's most successful single during the three-year gap between Let's Get It On and his following 1976 album, I Want You.[2]
^Eric Harvey (May 15, 2012). "The Quiet Storm". Pitchfork.
^Distant Lover > Song Review . All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on 2008-08-17.
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