Distant Lover
| "Distant Lover" | |
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| Single by Marvin Gaye | |
| from the album Let's Get It On | |
| A-side | "Come Get to This" |
| Released | 1973 |
| Recorded | November 3, 1970 – July 20, 1973 |
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| Length | 4:15 |
| Label | Tamla |
| Songwriters | Marvin Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Sandra Greene |
| Producer | Marvin Gaye |
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"Distant Lover" is the sixth song issued on singer Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, Let's Get It On and the B-side of the second single from that album, "Come Get to This". A live recording was issued as a single in 1974. The live version of the song was Gaye's most successful single during the three-year gap between Let's Get It On and his following 1976 album, I Want You.