You Sure Love to Ball

Infobox Single
Name = You Sure Love to Ball


Artist = Marvin Gaye
from Album = Let's Get It On
B-side = Just to Keep You Satisfied
Released = January 2, 1974
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1973, Hitsville West, Los Angeles, CA
Genre = Soul
Length = 4:46
Label = Tamla
T 54244
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Chart position =
Last single = "Come Get to This"
(1973)
This single = "You Sure Love to Ball"
(1974)
Next single = "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" (w/Diana Ross)
(1974)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Let's Get It On
Type = studio
prev_track = "Distant Lover"
prev_no = 6
this_track = "You Sure Love to Ball"
track_no = 7
next_track = "Just to Keep You Satisfied"
next_no = 8

"You Sure Love to Ball" is a song by Marvin Gaye, released in 1974. While it was initially a modest pop success peaking at #50, it rode to #13 on the R&B chart. The song was one of Gaye's most sexually overt and controversial singles.

In the beginning, the track showcased moaning sounds by a male and female engaged in sex. It paved the way for artists such as Donna Summer and Janet Jackson, who moaned in their own sexually explicit songs.

The song was covered by female soul singer Sylvia in 1976 and jazz superstar Will Downing in 1999 for the Gaye tribute album, "Marvin Is 60", and was re-released as a single.

Credits

*All vocals by Marvin Gaye
*Additional background vocals (moans) by Fred and Madeline Ross
*Instrumentation by Los Angeles session musicians