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Marvin Gaye's timeless ode to lust, "Let's Get it On" has finally gotten the music video treatment, more than 50 years after it was originally released. The hit song, which Gaye co-wrote with ...
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (né Gay; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) [1] was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
"I'll Be Doggone" gave Marvin his third top-ten pop hit, where it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, with that number matched by his follow-up record, "Ain't That Peculiar". [2] Billboard described "I'll Be Doggone" as a "powerful follow-up to ' How Sweet It Is ,'" stating that "Gaye's wailing vocal performance is pitted against a ...
"After the Dance" is a slow jam recorded by singer Marvin Gaye and released as the second single off Gaye's 1976 hit album I Want You. Though it received modest success, the song was widely considered to be one of Gaye's best ballads [1] and served as part of the template for quiet storm and urban contemporary ballads that came afterwards.
After Gordy heard the song when Gaye presented it to him in California, he turned down Gaye's request to release it, telling Gaye that he felt it was "the worst thing I ever heard in my life." [ 10 ] When Harry Balk requested the song be released, Gordy told him the song featured "that Dizzy Gillespie stuff in the middle, that scatting , it's old."
In 1998, the Marvin Gaye version of the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In June 2008, on the commemorative fiftieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine, the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as the sixty-fifth biggest song on the chart. [33]
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", often shortened to "Inner City Blues", is a song by Marvin Gaye, released as the third and final single, and the climactic song from his 1971 landmark album, What's Going On.
The single's light disco/soul approach helped the song gain a club audience after it was combined with the album's second single, "After the Dance," and peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart – Gaye's first single to make it. Eventually the song would help its album sell over a million copies.