THEME = duets: Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

This edition features a pair of pop duos…

#1
This single was released October 1986 & only managed #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, internationally, it was a Top 10 in Ireland (#4), Netherlands (#5), Australia (#5) & England (#9). Peter Gabriel was inspired to write it after seeing Dorothea Lange’s Depression-era photographs in a 1973 book “In This Proud Land”. Gabriel originally asked Dolly Parton to sing it with him, but she turned it down. So, he recorded it with Kate Bush for his album ‘So’. Gabriel, the original lead singer for the band Genesis, had a successful solo career, while Bush is a popular English singer-songwriter & producer.

#2
This song, written by husband-wife duo Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, was released 03/28/1968 from the 2nd album of the Marvin Gaye-Tammi Terrell duo, ‘You’re All I Need’. This single peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 & claimed #1 on the R&B chart. Elsewhere, it notched at #9 in Canada & #34 in England. It was Gaye’s 7th BH 100 Top 10 & 17th R&B Top 10. For Terrell, it was her 3rd BH 100 Top 10 & 4th R&B Top 10, all as duets with Gaye.