Marvin Gaye - Sunny (1966)
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Aciklama: Another Motown gem which didn't see the light of day for many years after it was recorded. Marvin Gaye + the classic Bobby Hebb song = class. |
Sexual Healing
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Aciklama: MArvin Gaye Sing the famous sensual song -= Sexual Healing =-
original video from '80
r.i.p. Marvin.. |
Marvin Gaye - Lets Get It On
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Aciklama: Marvin Gaye - Lets Get It On |
DMG - Dil Mil Gaye 5th January 5 Part 2 by www.DillMillGaye.in Dill Mill Gaye
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Aciklama: http://DillMillGaye.in DMG - Dil Mil Gaye 5th January 5 Part 2 by www.DillMillGaye.in Dill Mill Gaye |
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On live in Montreux 1980
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Aciklama: The fabulous Marvin Gaye singing a great version of his classic "Let's Get It On" in Montreux Jazz Festival. |
Dil Mil Gaye (DMG) 8th January 2009 09 Part 4
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MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL "Ain't no Mountain High Enough"
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Aciklama: A great Duet and a superb song |
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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Aciklama: My Own Video Of The Marvin Gaye Classic 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' |
Marvin Gaye - Got to give it up
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Aciklama: Live in Montreux 1980 |
Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover
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Aciklama: one of the most beautiful songs ever. by the best artist ever. |
Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1968)
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Aciklama: Born in 1939 in D.C. to a father from Kentucky and a mother from North Carolina, Marvin Gaye blazed the trail for the continued evolution of popular black music. Moving from lean, powerful R&B to stylish, sophisticated soul to finally arrive at an intensely political and personal form of artistic self-expression, his work not only redefined soul music as a creative force but also expanded its impact as an agent for social change. Marvin Gaye was one of the most gifted, visionary, and enduring talents ever launched into orbit by the Motown hit machine.
By the time of his death in 1984 at the hands of his clergyman father, Gaye had won two Grammy Awards: one for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and one for Best Instrumental Recording for the single, Sexual Healing.
Norman Whitfield first recorded "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in early 1967 with Smokey Robinson & the Miracles as the vocalists. During the 1960s, Motown held Quality Control meetings each Friday morning to determine which new recordings would be released as singles. The Quality Control staff voted as a democracy, with Motown chief Berry Gordy also holding veto power. During one of those meetings, Whitfield presented the Miracles' "Grapevine", which was not chosen for release. Undaunted, Whitfield had The Isley Brothers re-record the song; their version also failed to gain a release.
Still determined that he and Barrett Strong had written a hit, Whitfield had "Grapevine" recorded a third time. Re-imagining the soul song as a slower, psychedelic-inspired record, Whitfield had Marvin Gaye record the lead vocal, with The Andantes on background vocals and Motown's studio band The Funk Brothers playing a voodoo-like instrumental track.
It took Marvin Gaye two months to complete his recording of the song, which he worked on during April and May of 1967. Whitfield had Gaye's lead vocal arranged just above his actual register, a trick he had used with David Ruffin on Temptations songs such as "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" in order to elicit a rawer vocal from the singer as he strained to hit the high notes. The trick worked, and Gaye's pained lead on "Grapevine", contrasted with the softer vocals of the Andantes, made Whitfield sure he had finally recorded a hit. Motown label chief Berry Gordy was not impressed, however, and vetoed "Grapevine" at a Friday morning Quality Control Meeting. In its stead, the label issued another Gaye recording, "Your Unchanging Love", as a single; "Your Unchanging Love" charted at number thirty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number seven on the Billboard Black Singles (R&B) chart.
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" has been rendered in several different ways, although the song's theme, a relationship in the beginning stages of breakup, remains prominent in each version. The narrator in the song has no clue that his/her relationship is in a bad state, and only learns after hearing gossip "through the grapevine" that his/her lover is cheating. The narrator confronts the lover, and explains, through the lyrics, that, although the betrayal hurts the narrator deeply, it is the fact that the lover refused to inform the narrator of the infidelity that hurts the most.
Of the first four versions of the song produced by Norman Whitfield himself, only the Marvin Gaye version makes pain and confusion a clear part of the recording's musical texture: Whitfield surrounds Gaye with horror-film strings, voodoo-styled drums and percussion, and an ominous Wurlitzer electric piano line doubled by the guitar. The Miracles' version is a standard mid-tempo number, while Gladys Knight & the Pips' version is built around bravado and a quick-tempo gospel feel.
Related Words:
60's, 1960s, 60s, 1960's, protest songs, songs of protest, pop singing, Sexual Healing, Ain't No Mountain Higher, We Are The World, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, black Americans, African-Americans
Related Artists:
Isaac Hayes, Funk Brothers, Kim Weston, Tammi Terrell, Martha Reeves, Martha & the Vandellas, Don Covay, Arthur Conley, Mary Wells, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Spinners, Gladys Knight, Al Green, The Four Tops, Ashford & Simpson, The Rainbows, Big John Hamilton, Johnny Moore, Eddie Kendricks, Kenny Gamble, Lamont Dozier, Sylvia Moy, Sly & the Family Stone, The Moonglows, Benny Benjamin, Nona Gaye, Nat King Cole, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, R. Kelly, K-ci & JoJo, Isley Brothers, Avant, Bob Marley, Peabo Bryson, Luther Vandross, Teena Marie, Spandau Ballet, Lionel Richie, Commodores, Nightshift, George Michael, Diana Ross, Akon, James Jamerson, Earl Van Dyke |
Maceo Parker plays Marvin Gaye "Let's Get It On"
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Aciklama: Maceo Parker,Fred Wesley & Pee Wee Elis performing Marvin Gaye's song "Let's get it on". |
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing ( live )
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Aciklama: Marvin Gaye sings Sexual Healing in live, beautiful song !! just wonderful...
Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) (April 2, 1939 -- April 1, 1984) was a mutliple Grammy-winning American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown record label in the 1960s and 1970s.
Beginning his career at Motown in 1961, Gaye quickly became Motown's top solo male artist and scored numerous hits during the 1960s, among them "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and several hit duets with Tammi Terrell, including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "You're All I Need to Get By", before moving on to his own form of musical self-expression. Gaye is notable for fighting the hit-making, but creatively restrictive, Motown record-making process, in which performers and songwriters and record producers were generally kept in separate camps.
Marvin's career has been described as one that "spanned the entire history of rhythm and blues from fifties doo-wop to eighties contemporary soul"[2] With his successful 1971 album What's Going On and subsequent releases including Trouble Man (1972) and Let's Get It On (1973), Gaye, who was a part-time songwriter for Motown artists during his early years with the label, proved that he could write and/or produce his own albums without having to rely on the Motown system.
During the 1970s, Gaye would release several other notable albums, including Let's Get It On and I Want You, and had hits with singles such as "Let's Get It On", "Got to Give It Up", and, in the early 1980s, "Sexual Healing". By the time of his death in 1984 at the hands of his clergyman father, Gaye had become one of the most influential artists of the soul music area. |
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't no mountain high enough
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Aciklama: Marvin and Tammi Together |
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
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Aciklama: My homemade version of Marvin's "What's Going On". |
Marvin Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapevine
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Aciklama: Marvin Gaye is an American legend. He was signed to the fledgling Motown label in 1961 by label founder Berry Gordy and scored a total of 39 US Top 40 singles for the label. This was recorded at the Montreux jazz festival in 1980; the full concert is available on the Eagle Vision DVD "Live at Montreux". |

















