How Can I Forget#Marvin Gaye's version

{{Infobox song

| name = How Can I Forget

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = The Temptations

| A-side = Please Return Your Love to Me

| released = July 16, 1968

| recorded = Hitsville USA; June 29, 1968

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Soul

| length = 1:48

| label = Gordy
G 7074

| writer = Norman Whitfield
Barrett Strong

| producer = Norman Whitfield

| prev_title = I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)

| prev_year = 1968

| title = Please Return Your Love to Me

| title2 = How Can I Forget

| next_title = Cloud Nine

| next_year = 1968

}}

{{Infobox song

| name = How Can I Forget

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Marvin Gaye

| album = That's the Way Love Is

| B-side = Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got

| released = December 16, 1969

| recorded = Hitsville USA; 1969

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Soul, funk, psychedelic soul

| length = 1:55

| label = Tamla
T 54190

| writer = Norman Whitfield
Barrett Strong

| producer = Norman Whitfield

| prev_title = What You Gave Me

| prev_year = 1969

| next_title = The Onion Song

| next_year = 1970

}}

"How Can I Forget" was originally recorded as a love ballad by Motown group The Temptations in 1968The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 8: 1968 [liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal RecordsWilliams, Otis and Romanowski, Patricia (1988, updated 2002). Temptations. Lanham, MD: Cooper Square. {{ISBN|0-8154-1218-5}}. and was re-recorded in a psychedelic soul/funk styling by fellow Motown artist, Marvin Gaye in 1969.The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 9: 1969 [liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records His version, released on Motown's first subsidiary, Tamla, became a modest hit that almost reached the Top 40 of the pop charts while peaking at number-eighteen on the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart in 1970.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=225}} Marvin's recording was featured on his That's the Way Love Is album. The song is also notable for being (at the time) one of the shortest recordings for both The Tempts and for Gaye; recorded when most songs are over three minutes, its length is just under two.