85 years ago, Marvin Gaye, American soul singer-songwriter ("It Takes Two"; What's Going On"; "Let's Get It On"), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1984) #MarvinGaye
40 years after Marvin Gaye’s death, never-before-heard music has been found in Belgium. How did the tape, which looks like a basic BASF cassette that was common in the 1980s, end up there? And will fans of the singer who's popularity remains strong get to hear what’s on it? BBC News heard a brief, tantalizing sample from the tape. “In a rather eerie moment, the Prince of Motown almost seemed to live again.” https://flip.it/cAcvye #Culture#Entertainment#Music#MarvinGaye#MoTown
Picket lines
Picket signs
Punish me
With brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on--
What's going on.
I'll tell you what's going on. #MarvinGaye
Marvin Gaye had his first #1 single with his version of ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine’ on this day 55 years ago. Gaye’s version is just one of many covers of this Motown classic written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield.
🎧 In 1968, #TammiTerrell and #MarvinGaye recorded "You're All I Need To Get By" for Motown, and it's one of the songs from the label's archives to get a new animated lyric video this year.
#GladysKnight and the Pips' version of the song was the first to be released in 1967. It went #1 and was the best-selling #Motown single at the time. The next year, #MarvinGaye made it the massive hit most of us remember.
I'm not a fan of Five Finger Death Punch, mostly because I don't like the vocals, and I hear the singer is a real dick, too. But, you take him outta the mix, and.. I'm blown away by this Bill McClintock mashup. RIP to the LEGENDARY Marvin Gaye of course. But this takes Let's Get It On to a WHOLE. OTHER. LEVEL. Marvin with heavy drums and guitars! 🤯
I'm like, reeling. I couldn't stop watching or listening.
Op vraag van #JamesBrown, waar ze een kortstondige maar gewelddadige relatie met kreeg, tekende ze bij zijn label waar ze één single opnam en mee op zijn revue tournee ging.
Maar ze kreeg klappen en vlucht naar haar ouders en verbreekt het contact en contract.
Vanaf 1964 kwam ze bij #Motown terecht en mocht duetten opnemen en een paar solo opnames, maar uiteindelijk werd ze gelinkt aan #MarvinGaye waarmee ze grote hits scoort.
Aan het mooie liedje kwam op 14 oktober 1967 abrupt een eind
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🎧 #Mood | #MarvinGaye's "Got to Give it Up" (1977) from the 2-LP "Live at The #London Palladium." This song was actually recorded at "Marvin's Room" studio in #Hollywood.
At least one radio #DJ liked to put the 12" on, slip out for some "fresh air" and come back in time to jam to the last half. It's 11:52.