Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing

Marvin Gaye

{Original}

Album Information
Album Name (Year): You're All I Need (1968)
Record Label: Motown Records
Billboard Chart: The Billboard 200
Entry Week (Position): 09/21/1968 (n/a)
Peak Position: 60	Weeks On Chart: 21
Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics) 1. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing 2. Keep On Loving Me Honey 3. You're All I Need To Get By 4. Baby Doncha Worry 5. You Ain't Livin' 'Til You're Lovin' 6. Give In, You Just Can't Win 7. When Love Comes Knocking At Your Heart 8. Come On And See Me 9. I Can't Help But Love You 10. That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone) 11. I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby 12. Memory Chest

Album Notes

This album features all duets with Tammy Terrell
{Album Notes}

Oh baby

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing, no no
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing, honey

I've got your picture hangin' on the wall
It can't see or come to me when I call your name
I realize it's just a picture in a frame

I read your letters when you're not near
But they don't move me
And they don't groove me like when I hear
Your sweet voice whispering in my ear

Don't you know
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing

I play the game, a fantasy
I pretend but I'm not in reality
I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me

No other sound is quite the same as your name
No touch can do half as much to make me feel better
So let's stay together

I got some memories to look back on
And though they help me when you phone
I'm well aware nothing can take the place of being there

Oh so glad we got the real thing, baby
So glad we got the real thing, oh darling
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing, turn to me
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing

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Song Information
Song Written By: Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
Track Number: 01	Track Length: 2:16
Billboard Chart: The Billboard Hot 100
Entry Week (Position): 04/13/1968 (75)
Peak Position: 8	Weeks On Chart: 13

Song Notes

This song also spent 7 weeks on the British Charts starting 06/15/68, peaking at #34.