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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".
It is unclear if Gaye had wanted to include the song in The Ballads, because when the posthumous Vulnerable album came out in 1997, the song was left off of the track listing. Instead, following Marvin's death , Columbia Records worked with Gaye's former label, Motown , to bring leftover songs to fulfill what would have been Gaye's contractual ...
"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.
"A Funky Space Reincarnation" is a 1978 jazz-funk single recorded and released in 1979 by Marvin Gaye on the Tamla label. In the song, Gaye describes a parallel universe in the future where he is captain of a "space bed" and meets a woman that reminds him of his first wife, Anna.
Gaye in 1968 "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" is a 1968 single released by American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, on the Tamla label in 1968. The B-side of the single is "Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl" from the duo's United LP.
Three years later, Motown artist Marvin Gaye recorded a cover version of "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" as a follow-up single to his 1968 hit "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", another Whitfield/Strong composition, which was a trans-atlantic top five hit. Whitfield produced Gaye's version as well, which featured background vocals by The ...
The lyrics find Gaye playing the role of a Dom in a faux British accent where he raps throughout the track. The song shares some similarities to " Sanctified Lady ", receiving vocoder work from Gordon Banks, and having an electro-funk flavor.
American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, four live albums, one soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums, and 83 singles.In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown.