Marvin Gaye - Clap Your Hands: Zommerhappening, Live In Ostende (Vinyl)

Black Vinyl LP

A single LP from the Italian label Outsider Records, catalog number OUTS049, documenting Marvin Gaye's July 4, 1981 performance at the Casino-Kursaal in Ostend, Belgium, staged as part of a local festival. Forced Exposure's notes describe the show as the start of Gaye's recovery after a period of financial and personal problems.

Gaye had arrived in Ostend in February 1981 at the invitation of Freddy Cousaert, a Belgian DJ, club owner and concert promoter, and lived with the Cousaert family for several months. Cousaert arranged a run of English dates that summer, billed as A Heavy Love Affair Tour 1981, and Gaye came back from it to play two nights at the Kursaal, on July 3 and 4. This record is the second of those nights. His next studio album, Midnight Love, followed in 1982 and carried "Sexual Healing".

The nine songs span his catalog from 1964 to 1977: the Holland-Dozier-Holland single "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", three songs first recorded as duets with Tammi Terrell, "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" from What's Going On, "Let's Get It On" and "Come Get To This" from the 1973 album Let's Get It On, and "I Want You" from 1976. Side A opens with "Got To Give It Up", which first appeared as the studio side of Live At The London Palladium in 1977. The back cover carries two stage photographs of Gaye in a tuxedo alongside the sided running order.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Got To Give It Up
2. Come Get To This
3. Let's Get It On

Side B

1. If This World Were Mine
2. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
3. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
4. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
5. I Want You
6. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Complete the Collection

Six Marvin Gaye titles at Evergreen Vinyl, this one included: What's Going On, Live At The London Palladium, Every Great Motown Hit Of Marvin Gaye, The Best Of Marvin Gaye - Volume 1 - The '60s, Let's Get It On.