Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" was a 1968 hit for soul music legends Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Another passionate and poetic ode of love written and produced by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, the song became another one of those songs that was used to calm down the tension that was building in American life at that time.

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1968 - Soul music - Marvin Gaye - Tammi Terrell - Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson - American

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The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Pop charts and #1 on Billboard's Soul Singles chart. It was one of the actual last recordings by Gaye and Terrell, as Terrell fell ill with a brain tumor eventually dying in 1970. In 1974, soul queen Aretha Franklin re-recorded the song and released it as a single following the success of her song "Until You've Come Back to Me", from the album Let Me Into Your Life.

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Billboard - Brain tumor - 1970 - 1974 - Soul - Aretha Franklin

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