NEW YORK (Motown Records) - The first single from the forthcoming and much-anticipated Motown Remixed, "
Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye, is mixing it up at radio. Having already charted on the Billboard Magazine Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Chart in March, the new version of the classic reenters the
Radio & Records Urban AC chart (that's powered by Mediabase) at No 31 for the week ending April 13th, 2005. Marvin Gaye's "
Let's Get It On" was reworked by Da Producers, including Paul Simpson (Serious Intention, Spinners, The Jacksons). Currently available on Apple's iTunes and limited 12-inch vinyl, the track will also be available on a vinyl EP May 10. Motown Remixed will be released on Motown/UMe on May 24th, 2005.
"
Let's Get It On" has been on the Mediabase chart since November 28, 2004 when it debuted at #29 Urban AC. The original version of "
Let's Get It On" topped the Billboard R & B chart in1973.
Special marketing and promotional events surrounding the release of Motown Remixed will be held in major markets.
Motown Remixed stars producers/remixers and the songs:
- Da Producers, including Paul Simpson (Serious Intention, Spinners, Jacksons), for Marvin Gaye's "
Let's Get It On"
- 'The Randy Watson Experience': AKA Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson (The Roots, Common, Nikka Costa, Joss Stone) and
James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Roots, Anthony Hamilton), for Gladys Knight & The Pips' "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
- DJ Green Lantern (Eminem, Nas, Tupac, and has his own new album coming soon), for Rick James' "Mary Jane"
- Salaam Remi (Ludacris, Amy Winehouse, Fugees, Nas, Jamiroquai), for the Jackson 5's "ABC"
- DJ
Z-Trip (Soup of Jurassic 5, Chuck D and has his own new album "Shifting Gears"), for the Jackson 5's "
I Want You Back"
- DJ
Jazzy Jeff (Will Smith, Jill Scott, Kenny Lattimore, KRS-1), for The Temptations' "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"
- DJ Spinna (Guru, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige), for Eddie Kendricks' "Keep On Truckin'"
- Hank Shocklee (Shocklee Entertainment, Public Enemy, Mary J. Blige, Ice Cube,
Peter Gabriel), for the Undisputed Truth's "Smiling Faces Sometimes"
- Easy Mo Bee (Alicia Keys, Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis), for The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"
- Mocean Worker AKA Adam Dorn (U2, Mystikal, Moby, Charles Wright, Bill Frisell, Nina Simone), for Rare Earth's "I Just Want To Celebrate"
- Hotsnax AKA Full Phatt (Ashanti, Nelly, Outkast, Usher,
Christina Milian, Bob Marley), for
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' "The
Tears Of A Clown"
- King Britt (SYLK130, Digable Planets, Miles Davis, Grover Washington, Jr.), for Edwin Starr's "War"
- DJ
Smash (Roy Ayers,
Chico Hamilton, Cassandra Wilson), for Stevie Wonder's "Signed Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
- Rafe
Gomez and
David Baron as 'The Groove Boutique' (the nationally- syndicated cool jazz mix show of the same name), for Smokey Robinson's "Quiet Storm"
- Tranzition (everyANYTHING), for
Diana Ross & The Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You"
