How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)

Release: 1964

Release: 1964Source checked

V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. UMG explicitly dates the original single to late 1964. Its 1965 parent album, inherited album-track field and retained annual year are later events.

The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.

UMG - Marvin Gaye original recording overview
The label overview explicitly identifies How Sweet It Is as a late-1964 release and Can I Get a Witness with 1963. It supplies musical context across the original Motown and later solo repertoire; chart years and later compilations are not adopted as first-release dates.

How Sweet It Is - original album program
The original album is dated 1965. Its inherited 1965 title-song field is superseded by UMG's explicit late-1964 single history; the album program supports the recording identity, not that later first-release year.