Marv Gaye at 80, Diana Ross at 75, Motown at 60: the sgular story of A’t No Mounta High Enough - Steve Pafford

Contents:

• HOW MARV GAYE PISSED OFF DIANA ROSS WHEN RERDG THEIR DUETS ALBUM
• DID DIANA ROSS AND MARV GAYE DATE?
• MARV GAYE AT 80, DIANA ROSS AT 75, MOTOWN AT 60: THE SGULAR STORY OF A’T NO MOUNTA HIGH ENOUGH

HOW MARV GAYE PISSED OFF DIANA ROSS WHEN RERDG THEIR DUETS ALBUM

LaVette says she is “still kickg myself” for failg to land the man she most wanted – Marv Gaye. For her part, Ross, he suggts, was prepared to sleep wh whomever would further her reer - first Smokey Robson, himself an rrigible womaniser, then the producer and songwrer Brian Holland - until she land the boss himself, a man whom Marv Gaye once scribed as "the hornit man Detro".

For Marv Gaye, was the year of his R&B chart-toppg Let’s Get It On LP, the slipstream of his own movie sre adventure, Trouble Man. The duets project, released on October 26 that year, arrived jt two months after Let’s Get It On and, although his first wh Diana, was Gaye’s sixth llaborative rerd.

DID DIANA ROSS AND MARV GAYE DATE?

Diana & Marv had been mooted as early as 1970, when Ross was newly solo and Gaye was nursg the emotnal wounds of Terrell’s tragic ath. Origally released by soul duo Caston & Majors, the Ross-Gaye versn of that tune was on Motown’s multi-artist 1979 album Pops, We Love You, dited to Berry “Pops” Gordy, Sr.

The Primett returned and sang background on a number of Marv Gaye's songs.

Diana Ross / Marv Gaye.

MARV GAYE AT 80, DIANA ROSS AT 75, MOTOWN AT 60: THE SGULAR STORY OF A’T NO MOUNTA HIGH ENOUGH

By the early '70s, Diana Ross and Marv Gaye were pletely different creative terrori.

Ross was settlg down as a profsnal diva, while Gaye was phg his art forward wh What's Gog On, Trouble Man, and Let's Get It On.