question: What was the final Motown release of the singer who had a string of hits including "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"?
answer: In Our Lifetime
context: Title: Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980
  Passage: Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 is a taped performance of singer Marvin Gaye's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded on July 17, 1980.  Gaye included this performance as part of a European tour.  Gaye performs a majority of his hits from his recent disco-funk hits "Got to Give It Up" and "A Funky Space Reincarnation", to his duet hits with Tammi Terrell including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", in which Gaye re-interpolated the songs as a somber tribute to Terrell, who died over a decade before, to sixties Motown classics such as "I'll Be Doggone", "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It through the Grapevine", to seventies standards such as "What's Going On", "Trouble Man" and "Let's Get It On".  The Montreux set was later released as a CD/DVD in 2003.
  Title: Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits
  Passage: Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American R&B/soul singer and Motown legend Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label in 1976.  The hits collection, with the exception of Gaye's signature 1960s hits "Can I Get a Witness", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", was a review of Gaye's signature 1970s hits including the socially conscious anthems "What's Going On" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", erotically-focused material like "Let's Get It On", "I Want You" and "After the Dance", his bluesy and funky autobiographical "Trouble Man" and the famed live version of his quiet storm classic, "Distant Lover".  The album has received a Gold as well as a Platinum Certification by the RIAA in 1993.
  Title: Love Me Now or Love Me Later
  Passage: "Love Me Now or Love Me Later" is a 1980 song recorded by singer Marvin Gaye, who issued it on his final Motown release, "In Our Lifetime", in 1981.  The song talked of a conversation between two Lords: "The Good Lord" and "The Evil Lord" in which after creating Earth brings upon man and have a heated discussion over what to do with him.  The "evil Lord" wants control of the man while "the good Lord" insists on sharing him equally giving him the reason for love and understanding.  When the man, presumably Marvin, messes up, the "evil Lord" fusses that he shouldn't have allowed "the good Lord" to "give him reasons" telling the man in question that he's "got what the soul desires for mankind's flesh" while the "good Lord" tells the man "you can listen to me/I gave you reason for (love and life)".  This explains the cover of the album which depicts "the Good Lord" and "the Evil Lord" as clones of Marvin discussing over a table and is probably considered as the album's centerpiece.  In the album's alternate version, cut from Odyssey Studios, found the singer reciting a prayer at the end of the song.  The song's musical background was an evolution of an earlier recording, 1979's "Just Because You're So Pretty" for Marvin's aborted "Love Man" album.
  Title: All I Do Is Think of You
  Passage: "All I Do Is Think of You" is a ballad single released by The Jackson 5 as the b-side to the group's single, "Forever Came Today" on the Motown label in 1975, and was the final charted single the group issued as "The Jackson 5" before they left Motown for CBS the following year.  It was featured on their final Motown album, "Moving Violation".
  Title: Far Cry (Marvin Gaye song)
  Passage: "Far Cry" is the infamous unfinished recording that was included on singer Marvin Gaye's 1981 final Motown album, "In Our Lifetime".  The song, essentially a funk-styled instrumental, featured a vocally conscious Gaye mouthing words while playing multiple instruments, including the drums and keyboards, on the first part of the song.  The brief second half features a jazz instrumental with Gaye playing piano and drums and singing in falsetto, while his fellow instrumentalists, bassist Frank Blair and guitarist Gordon Banks, accompany him.  The song's release among the eight original recordings on "In Our Lifetime" angered Marvin to the point where he severed ties with Motown, his home for twenty years, leaving the label for Columbia.  As he told his biographer David Ritz, "I hadn't completed it...The song was in its most primitive stage.  All I had was this jive vocal track, and they put it out as a finished fact.  How could they embarrass me like that?  I was humiliated.  They also added guitar licks and bass lines.  How dare they second guess my artistic decisions!  Can you imagine saying to an artist, say Picasso, 'Okay, Pablo, you've been fooling with this picture long enough.  We'll take your unfinished canvas and add a leg here, an arm there.  You might be the artist, but you're behind schedule, so we'll finish up this painting for you.  If you don't like the results, Pablo, baby, that's touch!'"
  Title: Marvin Gaye
  Passage: Marvin Gaye ( ; born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.  Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
  Title: Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs
  Passage: Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs is a 2000 compilation album recorded by Motown singer Marvin Gaye.  Included are his UK hits, "Abraham, Martin & John", his two duets with Diana Ross: "You Are Everything" and "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" and his international hits including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing".  The album was only released in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number eight on the UK albums chart.
  Title: In Our Lifetime (Marvin Gaye song)
  Passage: "In Our Lifetime" is a funk song recorded by singer Marvin Gaye, issued on his final Motown album, 1981's "In Our Lifetime".  The title track's rhythm admittedly was taken from Rick James while the song parlayed a different message of partying with Marvin predicting the world's end as he had believed from teachings he absorbed from his father that Armageddon was approaching and that he wondered if it would happen in his lifetime.  He says the title track as a question mark.  In fact, the original concept of the album was to have a question mark at the end of the album title, "In Our Lifetime?" , Motown instead took the question mark rush-releasing the album after it was presented to the label in late 1980 by bassist Frank Blair.  The song ends ironically enough in a much somber jazz tone that was likely edited in by Motown staff.  An earlier funk version of the song was recorded as "I Offer You Nothing But Love" for Marvin's "Love Man" album and a 2007 Odyssey Studios mix of the song ended the song without a jazz instrumental.
  Title: Marvin Gaye discography
  Passage: American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, 4 live albums, 1 soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums and 83 singles.  In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown.  The first release under the label was "The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye".  Gaye's first album to chart was a duet album with Mary Wells titled "Together", peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard pop album chart.  His 1965 album, "Moods of Marvin Gaye", became his first album to reach the top ten of the R&B album charts and spawned four hit singles.  Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown".  Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, "M.P.G.", became his first number one R&B album.  Gaye's landmark album, 1971's "What's Going On" became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track.  His 1973 single, "Let's Get It On", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date.  In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued "Midnight Love", which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing".  Following his death in 1984, three albums were released posthumously while some of Gaye's landmark works were re-issued.
  Title: Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased
  Passage: Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased is a compilation album by Marvin Gaye.  Released in 1994 on Motown Records, the collection features some rarities from the soul singer's catalog during his formative years in the label between his breakthrough year as an R&B star in 1963 to around the time of his late-1960s hits including "I Heard It through the Grapevine".  Covering material he worked on with luminaries such as Holland-Dozier-Holland, Smokey Robinson and William "Mickey" Stevenson, the disc showcases Gaye's growth as a vocalist.  In 1999, an expanded version was released including bonus tracks and a rare interview.
citations: Love Me Now or Love Me Later Marvin Gaye