It Takes Two (Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston song)
| "It Takes Two" | |
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| Single by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston | |
| from the album Take Two | |
| B-side | "It's Got to Be a Miracle" |
| Released | May 12, 1966 |
| Recorded | November 27 & December 6, 1965, and March 2, 1966, Detroit, Michigan |
| Genre | Soul |
| Length | 3:10 |
| Label | Tamla |
| Writer(s) |
William "Mickey" Stevenson Sylvia Moy |
| Producer(s) | William "Mickey" Stevenson |
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| Single by Rod Stewart & Tina Turner | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Vagabond Heart | ||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Hot Legs" (Live) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | November 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7", 12" single, CD single | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | William "Mickey" Stevenson, Sylvia Moy | |||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Bernard Edwards | |||||||||||||||||||
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"It Takes Two" is a hit single recorded in late 1965 by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston for Motown's Tamla label.
Produced by Weston's then-husband, longtime Gaye collaborator William "Mickey" Stevenson, and co-written by Stevenson and Sylvia Moy, "It Takes Two" centered on a romantic lyric that depicted many things in life (dreams, love, wishes, etc.) being better with two people instead of one. The single became Gaye's most successful duet single to date, later outperformed by Gaye's duets with Tammi Terrell.
Gaye and Weston's duet peaked at #14 on the Billboard Pop charts and #4 on Billboard′s Soul Singles chart in January 1967. "It Takes Two" was also Gaye's first major hit in the UK, where it peaked at #16 on the British singles charts in the spring of that same year.
In 1990 "It Takes Two" was covered by Rod Stewart and Tina Turner and featured in a television advertising campaign for Pepsi. It was released as the lead single from Stewart's album Vagabond Heart, produced by Bernard Edwards and released in late 1990. The duet was a European hit, peaking at #5 in the UK, and becoming a Top 10 single in several European countries. It later appeared on both artists' greatest hits albums: Turner's Simply The Best (1991), and Stewart's The Very Best of Rod Stewart (2001).
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