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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 18. Chapters: Got to Give It Up, Try Again, More Than a Woman, Are You That Somebody?, The One I Gave My Heart To, Miss You, Rock the Boat, We Need a Resolution, One in a Million, If Your Girl Only Knew, Back & Forth, (At Your Best) You Are Love, I Care 4 U, Hot Like Fire, Don't Know What to Tell Ya, 4 Page Letter, Come Back in One Piece, Journey to the Past, Are You Feelin' Me?, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, Where Could He Be, Down with the Clique, The Thing I Like, I Don't Wanna, Come Over, No One Knows How to Love Me Quite Like You Do, I Refuse, Are You Ready. Excerpt: "Got to Give It Up" is a funk/disco song by American recording artist Marvin Gaye. Written by the singer and produced by Art Stewart, it was recorded in three studio dates in 1976 with a final mixing in early 1977. The song, a response to Gaye's label Motown pushing for the singer to record commercially accessible dance music to fit the music industry's embrace of dance rhythms, was released in March 1977. It was an instant success, landing at number-one on three different Billboard charts and helping its parent album, Gaye's live album, Live at the London Palladium, sell more than two-million copies. The song held the number one position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for one week, from June 18 - 25, 1977. It replaced "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac, and was replaced by "Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti. On the R&B Singles Charts it held the number one spot for five weeks from April 30 until June 17, 1977 (being interrupted twice at the number one position for one week by "Whodunit" by Tavares for the week of May 21, 1977 and Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" for the week of May 28, 1977 respectively). On the disco charts the single was also a number one hit. The song influenced several dance records after its release including two...