"You're All I Need to Get By" is a song recorded by the American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and released on Motown Records' Tamla label in 1968. It was the basis for the 1995 single "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" from Method Man and Mary J. Blige.

Overview[link]

Written by real-life couple Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, it became one of the few Motown recordings of the 1960s that was not recorded with the familiar "Motown sound". Instead, "You're All I Need to Get By" had a more soulful and gospel-oriented theme surrounding it, that was influenced by the writers, who also sing background vocals on the recording, sharing vocals in a church choir in New York. The lead vocals were recorded separately by the two singers and combined during the mixing process, reportedly to cut studio time, and give time for Terrell, who was using a wheelchair, to recover from surgery to repair the malignant brain tumor that would ultimately cause her death in 1970.

The original recording by Gaye and Terrell peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number-one on Billboard's Hot R&B/Soul Singles chart for five weeks,^[1] becoming one of the longest-running number one R&B hits of 1968 and the most successful duet recording of Marvin Gaye's entire career. Given its global appeal, it also reached #19 on the British singles charts in late 1968, staying there for nineteen weeks.

Personnel[link]

• All lead vocals by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
• Background vocals by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson
• Produced by Ashford & Simpson
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

Chart history[link]

Covers[link]

Dionne Warwick recorded this song in 1969 for the album Soulful and Diana Ross recorded it for her 1970 album, Diana Ross. Ashford and Simpson produced Ross' version as well.

Aretha Franklin recorded this song for her 1971 compilation album, Aretha's Greatest Hits. It peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

There were two versions recorded in 1978. Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams released this as a duet from Mathis' album, You Light Up My Life. It peaked at #47 on the Billboard Hot 100, #10 on the Hot Soul Singles Chart, and #45 on the UK Singles Chart. It also appeared on Mathis and Williams' album as a duo "That's What Friends Are For" of the same year. Gloria Gaynor recorded a disco version for Gloria Gaynor's Park Avenue Sound.

Natalie Appleton and Bootsy Collins recorded this song in 2000 and it features on the soundtrack of the movie Honest directed by Dave Stewart.

Michael McDonald recorded this song for his second album of Motown covers, 2004's Motown Two.

Kidda uses a line of this song for his 2008 single "Under The Sun".

D.C. Rapper Wale samples this in the song "The Remake of a Remake (All I Need)" off of his critically acclaimed "Mixtape About Nothing," with singer Tawiah singing the female vocals.

My Morning Jacket performed the song during their New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Garden on December 31, 2008, with Nicole Atkins appearing as a guest vocalist to sing the female part.

Actresses Telma Hopkins and Valarie Pettiford performed the song together in an episode of UPN's Half and Half.

Gladys Knight "Empress of Soul" also performed," You're All I Need to Get By"

A rendition of the tune by husband-and-wife duo Kenny Lattimore and Chanté Moore serves as the theme song for the BET reality series The Family Crews.

Other allusions to the song[link]

This song and its 1995 interpolation of it by Method Man and Mary J. Blige on their single, "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By", were referenced in "All I Need" by Jay-Z when he says: "And all...I...need is a chick to hold a jammy like/Meth and Mary, like, Marvin and Tammi"

Late rapper The Notorious B.I.G. sampled a portion of it for his song "My Downfall" on his Life After Death Album.

On the first season of American Idol, winner Kelly Clarkson sang this song during Motown week and Jasmine Trias also sang it on the third season. On the sixth season finale, American Idol Winner Jordin Sparks sang it as a duet with second-season winner Ruben Studdard. Seventh season American Idol runner-up David Archuleta performed this song on Star Search final. Eighth season contestant Von Smith performed it in the third week of semifinals. In addition, Jacob Lusk sang this song also during Motown week of Idol's tenth season.

References[link]

v t e Aretha Franklin Studio albums Columbia Songs of Faith (1956) Aretha (1961) The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962) The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin (1962) Laughing on the Outside (1963) Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964) Runnin' Out of Fools (1964) Yeah!!! (1965) Soul Sister (1966) Atlantic I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) Aretha Arrives (1967) Lady Soul (1968) Aretha Now (1968) Soul '69 (1969) Soft and Beautiful (1969) This Girl's in Love with You (1970) Spirit in the Dark (1970) Young, Gifted and Black (1972) Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973) Let Me in Your Life (1974) With Everything I Feel in Me (1974) You (1975) Sparkle (1976) Sweet Passion (1977) Almighty Fire (1978) La Diva (1979) Arista Aretha (1980) Love All the Hurt Away (1981) Jump to It (1982) Get It Right (1983) Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985) Aretha (1986) Through the Storm (1989) What You See Is What You Sweat (1991) A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998) So Damn Happy (2003) Other This Christmas, Aretha (2008) A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011) Live albums Aretha in Paris (1968) Aretha Live at Fillmore West (1971) Amazing Grace (1972) One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (1987) Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly, 1972 (2007) Compilation albums Take It Like You Give It (1967) Take a Look (1967) Aretha's Gold (1969) Aretha's Greatest Hits (1971) The Best of Aretha Franklin (1973) Aretha Sings the Blues (1980) Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 (1994) Greatest Hits (1998) Aretha's Best (2001) Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (2007) Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen (2007) A Deeper Love: The Best of Aretha Franklin (2009) The Great American Songbook (2011) Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin (1980-1998) (2012) Box sets Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1992) Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia (2011) Singles "Precious Lord (Part 1)" (1959) "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (1961) "I Surrender, Dear" (1962) "Try a Little Tenderness" (1962) "Say It Isn't So" (1963) "Skylark" (1963) "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (1964) "One Step Ahead" (1965) "You Made Me Love You" (1965) "Mockingbird" (1967) "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) "Respect" (1967) "Baby I Love You" (1967) "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (1967) "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" "Chain of Fools" (1967) "Satisfaction" (1968) "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (1968) "Think" (1968) "You Send Me" (1968) "I Say a Little Prayer" (1968) "The Weight" (1969) "Tracks of My Tears" (1969) "Gentle on My Mind" (1969) "Share Your Love with Me" (1969) "Eleanor Rigby" (1969) "Call Me" (1970) "Son of a Preacher Man" (1970) "The Thrill Is Gone" (1970) "Don't Play That Song" (1970) "You're All I Need to Get By" (1971) "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1971) "Spanish Harlem" (1971) "Rock Steady" (1971) "Day Dreaming" (1972) "Wholy Holy" (1972) "Angel" (1973) "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973) "I'm in Love" (1974) "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (1974) "Something He Can Feel" (1976) "Break It to Me Gently" (1977) "What a Fool Believes" (1981) "It's My Turn" (1981) "Jump to It" (1982) "Get It Right" (1983) Freeway of Love" (1985) "Who's Zoomin' Who" (1985) "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (1985) "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986) "Jimmy Lee" (1986) "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987) "Oh Happy Day" (1988) "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (1989) "Everyday People" (1991) "Someday We'll All Be Free" (1992) "A Deeper Love" (1993) "Willing to Forgive" (1994) "A Rose Is Still a Rose" (1998) "Wonderful" (2003) "Put You Up on Game" (2007) Record labels Columbia Atlantic Arista Related topics Discography Book:Aretha Franklin

v t e Deniece Williams Studio albums This Is Niecy (1976) Song Bird (1977) When Love Comes Calling (1979) My Melody (1981) Niecy (1982) I'm So Proud (1983) Let's Hear It for the Boy (1984) Hot On the Trail (1986) Water Under the Bridge (1987) As Good As It Gets (1988) Love Solves It All (1996) This Is My Song (1998) Love, Niecy Style (2007) Other albums That's What Friends Are For (1978) Singles "Free" (1976) "I've Got the Next Dance" (1979) "Silly" (1981) "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" (1982) "Let's Hear It for the Boy" (1984) "Next Love" (1984) "Black Butterfly" (1984) Duet singles "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" (1978) "You're All I Need to Get By" (1978) "Love Won't Let Me Wait" (1984) Related topics Deniece Williams discography Johnny Mathis Book:Deniece Williams

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(9.1/10) [2]
PopMatters	[3]
HipHopDX.com	[4]
RapReviews.com	(9/10) [5]
Robert Christgau	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Vibe	[8]

Quality is rapper Talib Kweli's first solo album. It was released on November 19, 2002 under Rawkus Records. It received wide critical acclaim and had some commercial appeal from the song "Get By" produced by Kanye West. The album is often hailed as a hip-hop classic by many fans.

Track listing[link]

Samples[link]

• "Get By" contains a sample from "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone
• "Get By" contains a sample from "Doggone" by Love
• "Shock Body" contains a sample from "Boys With Toys" by Gap Mangione
• "Good To You" contains a sample from "Simply Beautiful" by Al Green
• "Guerilla Monsoon Rap" contains a sample from "I Never Had It So Good (And Felt So Bad)" by The Chi-Lites. The name itself is an homage to late professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon.

Notes[link]

"Stand to the Side" was performed as a spoken word piece by Talib Kweli on Def Poetry

Talib Kweli collaborated with Mos Def, Jay-Z, Kanye West & Busta Rhymes for the remix of "Get By".

Album singles[link]

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Professional ratings
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Allmusic	[1]

You're All I Need is the second studio album by soul musicians Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, released in August 1968 on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Entirely written and produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson (who composed three of the songs on the first Gaye/Terrell duets LP, United), You're All I Need was recorded throughout 1966 and 1967 and features two Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". It peaked at #60 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Album Chart. You're All I Need was the two singers' final collaboration effort, as Terrell would turn ill following recording, before succumbing to a brain tumor in 1970.

History[link]

Although it was the second of three official Gaye/Terrell albums released by Motown, You're All I Need is technically the duo's final album. The album was recorded in 1966 and 1967 during the time Gaye and Terrell's first collaboration album United was released. After recording You're All I Need, Tammi Terrell collapsed onstage while performing with Gaye at the Hampden-Sydney College homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and could no longer record nor perform live. The final Gaye/Terrell album, Easy, would be completed by having Valerie Simpson fill in for Tammi Terrell on most of the album's songs, and having Gaye overdub archived Terrell solo tracks for two tracks. Roughly half of You're All I Need consists of Gaye overdubbing Terrell's solo recordings, as Terrell's illness prevented her from completing a full album.

Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson produced the singles "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", "Keep On Loving Me Honey", and "You're All I Need to Get By".^[2] Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol produced the rhythm tracks and Terrell's vocal for "You Ain't Livin' 'Til You're Lovin'", with Ashford and Simpson completing the production and supervising Gaye's vocal.^[2] Fuqua and Bristol also produced "I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby" and "Come On and See Me", while Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr.'s brother Robert Gordy produced "I Can't Help But Love You".^[2] Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol produced "Baby Dont'cha Worry", "Give In, You Just Can't Win", "When Love Comes Knocking At Your Heart", "That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone)", and "Memory Chest" as Tammi Terrell solo tracks in 1965 and 1966, and had Gaye overdub his vocals to them to create duet versions.^[2]

The hit title track was later revived 25 years later as a duet between rapper Method Man and hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige. Their rendition, titled "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need", won Method Man and Blige a Grammy Award for Best Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1995.

Track listing[link]

Side one[link]

1. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
2. "Keep On Loving Me Honey" (Ashford, Simpson)
3. "You're All I Need to Get By" (Ashford, Simpson)
4. "Baby Doncha Worry" (Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers)
5. "You Ain't Livin' 'Til You're Lovin'" (Ashford, Simpson)
6. "Give In, You Just Can't Win" (Harvey Fuqua, Bristol)

Side two[link]

1. "When Love Comes Knocking At Your Heart" (Fuqua, Bristol, Gladys Knight, Vernon Bullock)
2. "Come On and See Me" (Fuqua, Bristol)
3. "I Can't Help But Love You" (Robert Gordy, Thomas Kemp, Marvin Gaye)
4. "That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone)" (Fuqua, Bristol, Bullock)
5. "I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby" (Fuqua, Bristol, Beatrice Verdi)
6. "Memory Chest" (Fuqua, Bristol)

Credits[link]

• Lead (and additional background) vocals by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
• Background vocals by Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson, The Originals, The Andantes and The Spinners
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

Notes[link]

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Aretha Franklin
Franklin performing at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Aretha Louise Franklin
Born	(1942-03-25) March 25, 1942 (age 70) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Origin	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Genres	Soul, jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, funk, rock
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, pianist
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Years active	1956–present
Labels	Columbia (1960–1966) Atlantic (1967–1979) Arista (1980–2003) Aretha Records (2004–)
Associated acts	Sweet Inspirations, Carolyn Franklin, Erma Franklin, Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston, George Benson, George Michael, Michael McDonald, Eurythmics, Luther Vandross

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".