You're All I Need

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You're All I Need

LP by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Released	August 1968
Recorded	1966 - 1967
Genre	Soul
Length	N/A
Label	Tamla TS-284
Producer	Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Marvin Gaye chronology
In the Groove (I Heard It Through the Grapevine) (1968)	You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell) (1968)	M.P.G. (1969)
Tammi Terrell chronology
United (with Marvin Gaye) (1967)	You're All I Need (with Marvin Gaye) (1968)	Irresistible (1969)

You're All I Need was the second album by soul music duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, released by Tamla (Motown) Records in 1968. Entirely written and produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson (who composed three of the songs on the first Gaye/Terrell duets LP, United), You're All I Need features two Top 10 Billboard Pop Singles hits, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". It peaked at #60 on the Billboard Pop Album Charts.

Although it was the second of three official Gaye/Terrell albums released by Motown, You're All I Need is technically the duo's final album. The album was recorded in 1967 at about the time United was released. After recording You're All I Need, Tammi Terrell collapsed onstage while performing with Gaye at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and could no longer record nor perform live. The final Gaye/Terrell album, Easy, would be completed by having Valerie Simpson fill in for Tammi Terrell on most of the album's songs, and having Gaye overdub archived Terrell solo tracks for the others.

The hit title track was later revived 25 years later as a duet between rapper Method Man and hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige. Their rendtion, titled "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need", won the Method Man and Blige a Grammy Award for Best Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1995.