Saturday Soundtrack: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Many songs are called love songs but most of them are not really about love - any kind of love. Most are about physical gratification. I think this song might be the best expression of the kind of love called Eros (which is not synonymous with sexual desire) in popular music.

I suppose, that given the content of her songs and the fame she achieved by singing with Marvin Gaye, that it is fitting (if it is not perverse to say a death is fitting) that Tammi Terrel died after collapsing into Marvin Gaye's arms during a stage performance. Marvin never recorded such beautiful music again, and the sentiments expressed in his music became more base as he released such songs as "Let's Get it On" and "Sexual Healing". We can only wonder what his career might have been had Ms. Terrel not died.