Use in Television and Other Media
The original version of the song was featured on a 1982 advert for Talbot cars on British television.
Detroit television station WJBK-TV, which broadcasts on Channel 2, used a reworked version of the song with revised lyrics called "It Takes 2" as part of its on-air imaging in the early 1990s. The new version was sung again by Kim Weston and Marvin Gaye's brother Frankie.
Tower of Power, a funk/soul band has also covered the song.
Jennie Garth and Derek Hough performed the jive to a version of this song, on season 5 of Dancing With The Stars.
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or media:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
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