“It Takes Two” by Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston cut "It Takes Two" late in 1965, and Motown's Tamla label put it out in 1966. William "Mickey" Stevenson, Weston's husband at the time and a longtime Gaye collaborator, produced it and wrote it with Sylvia Moy, and the idea is as simple as the title: dreams, love, wishes, just about everything in life goes better with two. Cash Box called it a "rhythmic, infectious romancer", and that about covers it.

It reached number 14 on Billboard's pop chart and number four on the soul chart in January 1967, and that spring it got to 16 in Britain, Gaye's first major hit there. It was his most successful duet up to that point, a mark his records with Tammi Terrell would later top.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.