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"Sexual Healing" is a 1982 song recorded by American singer Marvin Gaye on the Columbia Records label. It was his first single since his exit from his long-term record label Motown earlier in the year, following the release of the In Our Lifetime album the previous year. People described it as "America's hottest pop-culture turn-on since Olivia Newton-John suggested she wanted to get 'Physical'."
By 1981, Marvin Gaye had moved from Los Angeles to Honolulu and London. Gaye left due to fear of imprisonment from failure to pay taxes to the IRS. Gaye also left because, according to several memoirs, he had felt unloved and not respected in his home country. Gaye also struggled with the separation with his second wife, Janis, and the separation between him and his children Marvin III, Nona and Frankie. After meeting Freddy Couseart, Gaye moved to Couseart's Belgium residence in Ostend and began to live comfortably among the beaches of the coastal Belgium city. Gaye, who struggled with drug addiction and depression, then began fighting to regain his professional career, which had stifled after the release of two ambitious concept albums, Here, My Dear (1978) and In Our Lifetime (1981), the latter album being the last album released with Gaye's longtime label, Motown Records, and a record Gaye angrily assumed was released without his consent by the label. Gaye had negotiated for seven months to release himself from Motown and in March 1982 had finally settled for a deal with CBS' Columbia division. Gaye began working on his first post-Motown album in April in Europe.
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
Honey I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
Honey I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
If you don't know the things you're dealing ohh
I can tell you, darling, that it's sexual healing
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
Baby I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
And baby I got sick this mornin'
A sea was storming inside of me
Baby I think I'm capsizing
The waves are rising and rising (and rising)
I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
Honey I know you'll be there to relieve me (to relieve me)
The love you give to me will free me (will free me)
If you don't know the things you're dealing ohh
I can tell you, darling, that it's sexual healing
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
And baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
Baby I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
I'm hot just like an oven
I can't hold it much longer
I'm hot just like an oven
I can't hold it much longer
I can get on the telephone
And call you up baby