The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legend - Smooth

Contents:

• BARBIE GAYE
• IS SGER BARBIE GAYE STILL ALIVE?
• WA — DID SHE JT E OUT? IS BARBIE GAY?
• BARBIE GAYE BGRAPHY
• LISA GAYE, ACTRS AND DANCER ‘ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK,’ DI AT 81
• WHAT HAPPENED TO 50S SGER BARBIE GAYE?
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

BARBIE GAYE

What happened to Barbie Gaye, the sger of “My Boy Lollipop”?

It was first rerd New York 1956 by Barbie Gaye. " Vastola had recently disvered 14-year-old sger Barbie Gaye after hearg her sg on a street rner Coney Island, Brooklyn. Gaye sang a few songs for them and Freed was equally imprsed.

Vastola beme Barbie Gaye's manager and wh days, he acquired the sheet mic and lyrics for "My Girl Lollypop" om Levy and gave them to Gaye, wh no specific stctns except to be ready to perform by the followg week. Barbie Gaye brought the mic to her sgg ach who played the song for her on piano a uple of tim.

IS SGER BARBIE GAYE STILL ALIVE?

Gaye changed the tle to "My Boy Lollypop.

" She add and leted lyrics (like, "uh oh lollipop" stead of "my boy lollipop" on a few stanc), shortened and lengthened not, repeated certa lyrics ("I love ya, I love ya, I love ya so") and add all the non-lyril sounds, (utteranc) such as the "whoas" and "hibby-ops" me time to rerd, Gaye cut school and took the subway to a rerdg stud Midtown Manhattan. Gaye met the three members of the ssn band, guarist, Leroy Kirkland, saxophonist, Al Sears and dmmer, Panama Francis. The band lear, Kirkland, asked Gaye to sg the song for them.

WA — DID SHE JT E OUT? IS BARBIE GAY?

The batn of Barbie Gaye's energy and youthful vols, the band's legendary talent, Kirkland's willgns to take a chance wh such a new style, and the creative eedom they enjoyed to make all the chang they did, rulted a song that would have great signifince and would help to fe the mic genre known as song was released as a sgle by Darl Rerds late 1956. The sger and songwrer, Ellie Greenwich, then a teenager livg on Long Island, was so taken by the rerd that she named herself Ellie Gaye when she embarked on her rerdg reer. However, Gaye's rerdg of "My Boy Lollypop" failed to make an imprsn other markets, and did not chart natnally.

Updated: 6/30/2021Wiki User ∙ 8y agoBt AnswerCopyThat’s me and y I am -Barbie Gaye ∙ Lvl 2 ∙ 2y agoThis answer is:David Unger ∙ Lvl 1 ∙ 2y agoAre you related to Marv gaye? Study guisMore answersWiki User ∙ 8y agoCopyIs Barbie Gaye still aliveThis answer is:Anonymo ∙ Lvl 1 ∙ 3y agoCopyY, she was the origal sger of My Boy Lollipop back late 1950'sThis answer is:Add your answer:Earn +20 ptsQ: Is sger Barbie gaye still alive? Anyway, all the years that I’ve been listeng to the versn by Millie Small, a Jamain sger and songwrer, I wasn’t aware of the existence of the 1956 versn, “Lollypop, ” by an Amerin girl named Barbie Gaye.

Barbie Gaye.

BARBIE GAYE BGRAPHY

I beme aware of Barbie Gaye’s versn jt a few weeks ago, when began turng up on SiriXM’s “50s on 5” channel. When I first heard Gaye’s versn, I was kd of taken aback and put off. But even at the first listeng, I was stck by the richns of Gaye’s voice and her crisp livery and sdg phrasg.

Before I play both songs for you, here’s the story — nnsed om Wiki — behd “My Boy Lollypop” and Barbie Gaye playg hooky to rerd .

The song ught the attentn of a Levy associate, mobster and mic mogul Gaetano “Corky” Vastola, who had heard Barbie Gaye sgg on a street rner on Coney Island.

LISA GAYE, ACTRS AND DANCER ‘ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK,’ DI AT 81

Vastola beme Gaye’s manager and soon acquired the sheet mic and lyrics for “My Girl Lollypop” om Levy. He gave them to Gaye, wh no specific stctns except to change the genr of the song’s subject and be ready to perform by the followg week. Barbie Gaye changed the song’s tle to “My Boy Lollypop” and rewrote the song acrdgly.

When me time to rerd, Gaye cut school and took the subway to a rerdg stud Midtown Manhattan. Gaye met the three members of the ssn band, guarist Leroy Kirkland, saxophonist Al Sears and dmmer Panama Francis. Barbie Gaye was paid $200 for her wrg ntributns to “My Boy Lollypop” and her stud rerdg.

WHAT HAPPENED TO 50S SGER BARBIE GAYE?

It sold enough, however, that Gaye got to tour wh Ltle Richard and Fats Domo 1957. Like many artists at the time, Gaye received no royalti om rad play.

…I don’t know if Barbie Gaye is still alive or, if so, where she liv. Is Barbie Gay? Sudnly many people are speculatg about Barbie’s sexualy: Is she gay?

Pretty gay right?

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

Aimee the shirt signer has nfirmed the ter mors tweetg back to the viral nversatn “I am the girliend” wh a photo posed wh the doll versn of herself, both of them wearg the “Love Ws” has not officially mented so for now this is the same realm as those of who are nvced that Disney’s Elsa is gay and needs a girliend, except Barbie is already rockg the pri gear. Of note, Ken has often been mored to be gay for some time notably cludg Earrg Magic Ken doll 1993. Not to mentn Mattel might also be releasg the gayt Ken yet wh this harns wearg merman Ken which Mattel buted an onle ntt for fans to vote on which doll they should is now closed, but there are a lot of LGBTQ fans hopg that this queer d Ken mak to the market — I for one know I need him my toy llectn!

Social media emed photo op irrefutable proof that the Mattel mast is gay. Origally released 1956 the US by Barbie Gaye as a shuffle blu, had been a small h.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON

Early 1963, therefore, they moved to Ldon Pottger’s Gaydisc label: their tune Marie was one of the big Jamain hs of that on to work wh Prce Bter, Roy and Millie released I’ll Go Over and Over for him. Lisa Gaye, the burn-haired actrs and dancer who starred the 1956 mil films Rock Around the Clock and Shake Rattle & Rock!, died Thursday Hoton, her fay announced.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92

In the box-office sensatn Rock Around the Clock, featurg Bill Haley and the Comets, The Platters and others, Gaye was memorable dancg wh Earl Barton (also the film’s choreographer) ont of a clappg crowd of teens the show-stoppg number “Rock-A-Beat Boogie.

Gaye played the love tert of a disc jockey (Mike Connors) the story about adults who want to ban rock ‘n’ roll bee they thk leads to juvenile lquency. Also the 1950s, Gaye had a recurrg role as French mol Collette DuBois on The Bob Cummgs Show and was one of three women chasg rich guys on the TV versn of How to Marry a Millnaire, also starrg Barbara En.

WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE

The green-eyed Gaye gut-starred que often on TV, appearg on such shows as Death Valley Days, Whirlybirds, Sea Hunt, Have Gun — Will Travel, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Wagon Tra, Perry Mason, Wild Wild Wt, The Flyg Nun and, her last onscreen appearance 1970, Mod Squad. Llie Gaye Griff was born March 6, 1935, Denver. The stud changed her name to Lisa Gaye, and 1954, she showed up as a bobbysoxer The Glenn Miller Story, as a harem girl Rhonda Flemg’s Yankee Pasha and as Audie Murphy’s fiancee Dms Across the River.

Gaye also appeared oppose Dean Mart Ten Thoand Bedrooms (1957), and Night of Evil (1961), she portrayed a raped stunt who go on to w a bety pageant but ends up on skid row. Be notified when an answer is postedAdd your answer:Earn +20 ptsQ: What happened to 50s sger Barbie gaye? But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

13Marv Gaye was shot ad by his own father 1984Cred: Redferns. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday.

13Marv Gay Sr was arrted for the shootgCred: AP:Associated Prs. At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad. As Gaye’s fame grew, so did his pennce on dgs and his creasgly erratic behavur.

Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father.