Let's Get It On

CTL-E-6026 · Work · album · 1973

PROVISIONAL evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07253 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6026.

Let's Get It On is the twelfth studio album by singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye, released August 28, 1973, on Tamla, the Motown subsidiary label. Recorded in Detroit at Hitsville U.S.A. and Golden World and in Los Angeles at Hitsville West across sessions running from 1970 into 1973, and produced by Gaye with Ed Townsend, the eight-track album followed the socially conscious What's Going On with a turn toward funk, smooth soul, and songs of desire that Gaye framed in spiritual terms. Its singles were the title track, a number-one pop and R&B hit, 'Come Get to This,' and 'You Sure Love to Ball.' The album became the most commercially successful of Gaye's Motown career, widened his creative control at the label, and helped establish the slow-jam idiom in later R&B. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004 and reissued in expanded editions, including a 50th-anniversary release in 2023.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Let's Get It On entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6026 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 21 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1357). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — a landmark album by a homed artist (Marvin Gaye, CTL-E-5236, project PPL-001 copied from his record); Motown/Tamla catalog core scope. Vital status: n/a (Work). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Released August 28, 1973, Tamla T 329V1 (Wikipedia; Discogs). Peaked at number two on the Billboard Top LPs chart and spent 11 weeks at number one on the Soul Albums chart (Wikipedia, opened read). Title track reached number one on the pop and R&B charts (Black Enterprise, 2023). Grammy Hall of Fame induction 2004 (Wikipedia; Black Enterprise). Rolling Stone all-time rankings CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: number 165 on the 2003 list versus number 422 on the 2023 edition (Wikipedia accolades summary) — both dated rankings carried, neither merged. PROVISIONAL GAP (named on the record's face, CTL-GOV-006): GAP NAMED: release, chart, and Hall of Fame facts are corroborated by three independent sources (Wikipedia article opened and read, Discogs release data, Black Enterprise anniversary coverage), but no authoritative Recording Academy / GRAMMY.com source was opened in this pass, so under CTL-GOV-006 the record is capped at Provisional until that leg is read. MEDIA: photo HELD (Let's Get It On original 1973 Tamla gatefold album cover (photography credited to Jim Britt on the release credits; PHOTO-001 verification still required) named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6026-lets-get-it-on.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (NEAR MISS, NOT A MATCH: Shorts Link Map Short #1 is 'Marvin Gaye — What's Going On (1971),' whose subject is M) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Marvin Gaye — authored by
  Let's Get It On is Marvin Gaye's twelfth studio album; he wrote/co-wrote and produced it. authored_by (Work->Person) is matrix-legal.
• Motown Records — released by
  The album was released August 28, 1973, on Tamla, the Motown subsidiary label; no standalone Tamla entity exists in the graph, so the release edge wires to Motown Records (CTL-E-1639, Institution/label) with the Tamla imprint stated in the evidence. released_by (Work->Institution) is matrix-legal.

Sources

• Wikipedia, Let's Get It On (accessed 2026-10-16; article opened and read) — twelfth studio album; released August 28, 1973, by Tamla; recording sites and session spans; producers Gaye and Townsend; three singles; number two Billboard Top LPs peak, eleven weeks atop the Soul Albums chart, 61 chart weeks; Grammy Hall of Fame induction — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Get_It_On (build store)
• Discogs, Marvin Gaye — Let's Get It On, US Tamla LP release T 329V1, 1973 (accessed 2026-10-16) — label, catalog number, eight-track listing, and Gaye/Townsend writing and production credits corroborating the album's release identity — https://www.discogs.com/release/305438-Marvin-Gaye-Lets-Get-It-On (build store)
• Black Enterprise, 'Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On Celebrates 50th Anniversary' (2023; accessed 2026-10-16) — August 28, 1973 release date; title track number one on pop and R&B charts; album number one on the Soul LPs chart and number two on Top LPs; Grammy Hall of Fame 2004; 2023 deluxe reissue — https://www.blackenterprise.com/marvin-gaye-lets-get-it-on-50th-anniversary/ (build store)

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