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"What's Going On" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye, released on January 21, 1971, on the Motown subsidiary Tamla. [3] It is the opening track of Gaye's studio album of the same name .
What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by the American soul singer Marvin Gaye.It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla.Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California, it was Gaye's first album to credit him as producer and to credit ...
Gaye's landmark album, 1971's What's Going On became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track. His 1973 single, " Let's Get It On ", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date.
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" is the second single from American singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye's 1971 album, What's Going On. Following the breakthrough of the title track's success, the song, written solely by Gaye, became regarded as one of popular music's most poignant anthems of sorrow regarding the environment.
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (né Gay; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) [1] was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. 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".
With social justice being a focus in society, it was apropos to honor the music of Marvin Gaye, which was born out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. A Grammy Salute to the Sounds of ...
"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. Written by Gaye and James Nyx Jr., the song depicts the ghettos and bleak economic situations of inner-city America, and the ...
The hit song, which Gaye co-wrote with former Memphis resident Ed Townsend, was released on Gaye's 1973 album "Let's Get It On" and hit number 1 on the Billboard singles chart within a few months.