"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" is a 1964 hit song written and produced by the Motown songwriting team of Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was originally recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye and became one of his most popular songs. Gaye peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart with the song in January 1965, and #3 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart[1] making it Gaye's most successful single to that point with record sales well over 900,000 copies.
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"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" has been covered on several occasions, including by fellow Motown artist Jr. Walker & the All Stars, who took it to #3 on the R&B singles chart and number 18 on the Hot 100 in 1966. The most successful cover of the song was by James Taylor, whose version in mid-1975 reached number one on the Easy Listening chart and number five on Billboard Hot 100.[2] On this version, Carly Simon performed harmony vocals and David Sanborn played saxophone.
Other versions include those by the Jerry Garcia Band, Cissy Houston (who cut a gospel version on her Grammy winning album, Face to Face, in 1996), Joe Jackson Band, during their Night and day world tour in 1982.Michael Bublé (who released the song on his album It's Time), and Karen Dalton on her 1971 folk album "In My Own Time". The song was also covered and gave title to an album by Joan Osborne, as well as by Kenny Rogers and also by Jimmy Needham in his album Nightlights. Former a1 member Paul Marazzi also did a cover version of this song for his new band Blue Eyed Soul. Marvin Gaye recorded a German language version of the song, "Wie Schön Das Ist".
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- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 225.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 239.
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