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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 ...
"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.
Banks first got acquainted with Marvin Gaye in 1976. After a year, Banks joined Gaye's band. After first working with Gaye with the funk hit, "Got to Give It Up" [citation needed] and playing guitar with Gaye on his 1977 U.S. tour, Banks helped in directing the music for Gaye's 1978 album, Here, My Dear.
Trouble Man is a soundtrack and the twelfth studio album by American soul singer Marvin Gaye, released on December 8, 1972, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records.As the soundtrack to the 1972 Blaxploitation film of the same name, the Trouble Man soundtrack was a more contemporary move for Gaye, following his politically charged album What's Going On.
What's Going On was released on August 29, 2006, on Shout! Factory, exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina first hit New Orleans and 35 years after Gaye's album was first released. Part of the proceeds from sales of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band's album were donated to Tipitina's Foundation. [4]
What's Going On Live is a live album recorded in 1972 by American soul singer Marvin Gaye and released posthumously in 2019 by Motown. [1] The album documents a live performance of his album What's Going On and has received mixed feedback from critics.
Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, M.P.G., became his first number one R&B album. 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.
In the spring of 1972, Marvin Gaye was suffering from writer's block. [3] Following the release of his most commercially successful album up to that point, What's Going On (1971), and the soundtrack album to the blaxploitation film Trouble Man (1972), Gaye had struggled to come up with new material after Motown Records had renegotiated a new contract with him.