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Contents:
- BARRETT STRONG, MOTOWN TRAILBLAZER WH THE TEMPTATNS AND MARV GAYE, DI AT 81
- SPIKE LEE PAYS TRIBUTE TO MARV GAYE, THE TEMPTATNS IN ‘DA 5 BLOODS’
- MARV GAYE
BARRETT STRONG, MOTOWN TRAILBLAZER WH THE TEMPTATNS AND MARV GAYE, DI AT 81
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Barrett Strong, an artist and songwrer who was prent for the birth of Motown and had a key role classic hs for the Temptatns, Marv Gaye, Edw Starr and others, has died. “Money (That’s What I Want), ” wh Strong on strappg, raspy lead vols, went on to sell a ln pi and helped igne the pany’s eventually went behd the scen as a songwrer, teamg wh producer Norman Whfield the mid-1960s to wre smash for Marv Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips (“I Heard Through the Grapeve”), Edw Starr (“War”) and the Undisputed Tth (“Sg Fac Sometim”) was wh the Temptatns that Strong and Whfield had their most prolific succs, srg a n of hs the late ‘60s and early ‘70s wh milly adventuro, topilly relevant songs such as “Cloud Ne, ” “I Wish Would Ra, ” “I Can’t Get Next to You, ” “Psychelic Shack, ” “Ball of Confn, ” “Jt My Imagatn (Runng Away Wh Me)” and “Papa Was a Roll’ Stone. Marv Gaye, byname of Marv Pentz Gay, Jr., (born April 2, 1939, Washgton, D.C., U.S.—died April 1, 1984, Los Angel, California), Amerin soul sger-songwrer-producer who, to a large extent, hered the era of artist-ntrolled popular mic of the 1970s.Gaye’s father was a storeont preacher; his mother was a domtic worker.
SPIKE LEE PAYS TRIBUTE TO MARV GAYE, THE TEMPTATNS IN ‘DA 5 BLOODS’
Motown was found by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Rerds 1959. Steve Wonr, Marv Gaye, The Suprem, Four Tops and Temptatns shaped soul mic. * was marvin gaye with the temptations *
Gaye sang his father’s Evangelil church Washgton, D.C., and beme a member of a natnally known doo-wop group, the Moonglows, unr the directn of Harvey Fuqua, one of the genre’s foremost matros, who reloted the group to Chigo. When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony.
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After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds. Gaye, who also played dms and piano, bucked the Motown system and s emphasis on teen hs.