Your Precious Love
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| "Your Precious Love" | ||||
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| Single by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell | ||||
| from the album United | ||||
| B-side | "Hold Me Oh My Darling" | |||
| Released | August 22, 1967[1] | |||
| Recorded | March 23, 1967[1] | |||
| Studio | Hitsville USA, Detroit | |||
| Genre | Soul, pop | |||
| Length | 3:07 | |||
| Label | Tamla T 54156 | |||
| Songwriter | Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson | |||
| Producers | Harvey Fuqua Johnny Bristol | |||
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"Your Precious Love" is a popular song that was a 1967 hit for Motown singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The song was written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol. The doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Fuqua, Gaye, Terrell and Bristol, and instrumentals by the Funk Brothers with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Pop singles chart,[2] No. 2 on Billboard's R&B singles chart, and the top 40 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.[3][4] The song was later sampled by Gerald Levert in the song "Your Smile" on his 2002 album, The G Spot.
Billboard described the single as "a soulful blues ballad."[5] Billboard also felt that both "Your Precious Love" and its B-side "Hold Me Oh My Darling" had equal sales potential as the duo's previous hit single "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".[5]
