"My Last Chance" is a song by American recording artist

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. Gaye originally recorded this song as a demo during the making of the '' What's Going On'' period, initially as an instrumental. Two years later, he added vocals. Eventually he revised the song, along with Anna Gordy Gaye, his wife, and collaborator Elgie Stover as "I Love You Secretly" for

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on their 1973 album, ''

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''. In 1990 Motown remixed the track in a modern R&B-styled

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production and issued it on R&B radio stations that year. The song gave Gaye his first charted Billboard single as a posthumous artist in five years, eventually peaking at number 16 on the Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart. In 2001, the 1972 version was finally released on the compilation, ''20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Very Best of Marvin Gaye, Vol. 2: The 1970s''. A remix of the song was included on the 2019 posthumous album, ''

You're the Man "You're the Man" is a song composed by singer Marvin Gaye and songwriter Kenneth Stover and released on the Motown subsidiary, Tamla, in the summer of 1972. Composed primarily on the basis of the 1972 presidential election, the song was suppose ...

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Personnel

*All vocals by

. Background vocals were added for the 1990 remix by The Waters *Original instrumentation by

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; The Funk Brothers do not appear on the remixed versions. *The 1990 remix was produced by Steve Lindsey and Zack Vaz. *The 2019 remix was produced by

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Source: https://www.discogs.com/Marvin-Gaye-My-Last-Chance/master/220474 * {{authority control 1972 songs 1990 singles Marvin Gaye songs Songs written by Marvin Gaye Song recordings produced by Marvin Gaye Tamla Records singles