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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
January 13th, 2008
A little music treat from classic Motown
Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye came together to make several classic duet ballads. One of those being ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’. Three years later, Marvins good friend Diana Ross would remake it.
What’s most notable about this remake is that it is one of the rare occasions where the remake, in large part, is distinctly different in composition from the original, rather than just reinterpreted in the signing.
WikiPedia gives this history on the song:
“”Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is an R&B/soul song written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson in 1966. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell for the Tamla (Motown) label. The song became a hit a second time in 1970, when a cover by fellow Motown artist Diana Ross became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award.”
Nough talk, now for the music:
Tammi and Marvin
Diana’s version
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I prefer Tammi and Marvin’s version, they created some great music together. Diane Ross version is great, and it shows how technical her voice is, she doesn’t always get the credit she deserves, but her version has too much monologue.
Diane’s back-up dancers had me on the floor laughing, talk about solid gold and flaming all in one moment.
They really did creat great music together. If Tammi didn’t die so young she probably would have become the major star she deserved to be.
I didn’t even see the solid gold dancers on the Diana clip, since I didn’t play it to the end I was looking at some other performance of the song, but used this one here because the others had long intros before they got to the song.
Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye’s version was definitely better. It was better because when they recorded the song, it was a love song. Diana Ross took the song to an enirely different dimension. Her rendition was actually a dance number, however she did well. I also remember that after Tammi died, Marvin’s music also took a turn. I do believe that had Tammi lived, they probably would have married. Marvin’s music went from the love ballads that he was so famous for, to songs about life and our purpose here. I do appreciate that. It was not more evident than in his What’s Going On album. They were both two beautiful talented people and we experienced a great loss when we lost them.
Great post! I like both versions, but they really do seem like two completely different songs. Marvin and Tammi’s is a little love song and Diana’s is a Broadway spectacular. But everything with Diana is larger than life, so I don’t think she could have done it any other way.