How Marv Gaye's 'Inner Cy Blu' Beme a Prott Anthem - Rare

Contents:

• ‘INNER CY BLU’: MARV GAYE COMPLET A SOCIAL COMMENTARY TRY
• HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘INNER CY BLU’ REMAED A PROTT ANTHEM FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS
• HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘INNER CY BLU’ BEME A PROTT ANTHEM
• INNER CY BLU: THE MIC OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE: INNER CY BLU MEANG
• RIGHT ONMARV GAYETRACK 7 ON WHAT’S GOG ON PRODUCED BYMARV GAYEMARV GAYE WAS MANY THGS. A CHRONICLER OF THE TIM, A BELIEVER, A SEXUAL HEALER AND A SUPERSTAR MICIAN BUT, ABOVE ALL ELSE, HE WAS A MAN WHO AIMED TO TOUCH THE SOULS… READ MORE MAY. 21, 19711 VIEWER20.7K VIEWS20 CONTRIBUTORSRIGHT ON LYRICS[INTRO]HEY BABY, THAT'S ALRIGHT PEOPLEI KNOW THAT'S ALRIGHTEVERYDAY, THAT'S ALRIGHTOH, WHEN WE LOVE EACH OTHER[VERSE 1]I KNOW THAT'S ALRIGHTOH JT FEEL , FEEL OH EVERYBODY FEEL GOD KNOW THAT'S ALRIGHT, Y[VERSE 2]SOME OF WERE BORN WH MONEY TO SPENDSOME OF WERE BORN FOR RAC TO WSOME OF ARE AWARE THAT 'S GOOD FOR TO RESOME OF FEEL THE ICY WD OF POVERTY BLOWG THE AIR[VERSE 3]FOR THOSE OF WHO SIMPLY LIKE TO SOCIALIZEFOR THOSE OF WHO TEND THE SICKAND HEED THE PEOPLE'S CRILET ME SAY TO YOU, RIGHT ON[BRIDGE]OH, FEEL , FEELYEAH, OH, OH, OH LORD, LORD, LORD, PEOPLEAND I SAY, RIGHT ONHONEY, RIGHT ONYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 4]FOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE WHERE PEACE IS CRAVEDFOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE, WHERE HATRED IS ENSLAVED, ALRIGHTFOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE A LIFE, YEAHSURROUND BY GOOD FORTUNE AND WEALTH (TALK ABOUT )[VERSE 5]FOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE A LIFE, HEY, HEY, HEY ENJOYG OURSELVFOR THOSE OF WHO GOT DROWNED THE SEA OF HAPPSFOR THE SOUL THAT TAK PRI HIS GODAND HIMSELF AND EVERYTHG ELSE[INSTMENTAL BREAK][VERSE 6]LOVE, LOVE, SWEET LOVE, LOVE, WONRFUL LOVEAH, TE LOVE, LOVE, LOVE FOR YOUR BROTHERAND LOVE, LOVE FOR GODLOVE, AH PURE LOVE[VERSE 7]AH TE LOVE N NQUER HATE EVERY TIMEGIVE OUT SOME LOVE AND YOU'LL FD PEACE SUBLIMEAND MY DARLG, ONE MORE THGIF YOU LET ME, I WILL TAKE YOU TO LIVE WHERE LOVE IS KGAH, BABY2EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

‘INNER CY BLU’: MARV GAYE COMPLET A SOCIAL COMMENTARY TRY

Songfacts®:Marv Gaye rerd a strg of h love songs the '60s, which were ually wrten by Motown songwrers. Gaye grew up Washgton, DC before movg to Detro 1960. Gaye gave Jam Nyx a songwrg cred on this as well as "What's Gog On.

" Nyx was a longtime iend of Gaye who helped him anize and arrange his songs. Mayer creds hs like "Wag On The World To Change" as beg rooted the tradn of Marv Gaye and Curtis was ed the soundtrack of the 2007 film Zodiac.

Gaye was loyal to Detro teams and even wanted to bee a profsnal football player wh the Lns 1970 after the ath of his sgg partner Tammi Terrell left him prsed and nfed about his role the mic dtry. Former Lns rnerback Lem Barney told the LA Tim of Coach Joe Schmidt's first teractn wh the newly bulked-up Gaye: "If I uld sg like you, I certaly wouldn't want to play football, " he had said.

HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘INNER CY BLU’ REMAED A PROTT ANTHEM FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS

Wh the weight of Gaye's mic reer also rtg on the tryout, Schmidt cid the sger was too much of a teammat Barney and nng back Mel Farr provid backg vols on subsequent, polilly charged h "What's Gog On. Marv Gaye - Photo: Courty of Gems/Redferns. Marv Gaye was full cry 1971.

The What’s Gog On album had been released May, four months after the tle track had signalled Gaye’s dramatic new change of directn. Marv Gaye - Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler).

It climbed to the R&B summ for a two-week n that meant Gaye had spent ne weeks atop the soul chart wh three sgl om What’s Gog On. Strange to thk, then, that Motown boss Berry Gordy didn’t exactly embrace Gaye’s new directn, and was distctly wary of the “What’s Gog On” sgle particular. Until Gaye’s dience showed that they were wh him all the way, that is, and that they loved his new role as a soulful social mentator.

HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘INNER CY BLU’ BEME A PROTT ANTHEM

As wrer Ben Edmonds observed the 30th anniversary edn of the album 2001, the subjects on Gaye’s agenda remaed all too relevant then, and all the more so now. Released nearly 50 years ago, we look at seven tracks that took Marv Gaye’s ‘Inner Cy Blu’ new directns. Marv Gaye was not necsarily a visnary, he jt scribed the jtic he wnsed around him.

What better way, he thought, to sum up the issu that he and Gaye had wrten down – than a song entled ‘Inner Cy Blu’. Rerd March and released September ’71, Gaye produced the entire track at the stud nicknamed Hsville USA – Motown’s first headquarters. The Tamla rerd – which topped the R&B charts and gaed attentn worldwi – also featured as the fal track on the semal What’s Gog On – Gaye’s eleventh and most endurg album.

Were the first group to transform Gaye’s downtown masterpiece – an all-absorbg, betifully executed ver wh an air of spe-chillg sereny.

INNER CY BLU: THE MIC OF MARV GAYE

First served up as a sgle on Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom imprt, and on their Tim Have Changed album a year later, the formidable soul group stamp their own style firmly onto Gaye’s h. A fast paced and funky stmental take om the jazz anist, monstratg how Gaye’s origal translat to the dancefloor.

MARV GAYE: INNER CY BLU MEANG

Released as a reactn to the September 11th attacks, Theo Parrish twists and morphs Gaye’s vols, to a murky, beatdown versn sttered wh news work sampl, actured percsn and smothered synth work. Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler) Lyrics as wrten by Jam Nyx Marv Gaye. But the se of the late, great Marv Gaye, a legend is exactly what he is.

RIGHT ONMARV GAYETRACK 7 ON WHAT’S GOG ON PRODUCED BYMARV GAYEMARV GAYE WAS MANY THGS. A CHRONICLER OF THE TIM, A BELIEVER, A SEXUAL HEALER AND A SUPERSTAR MICIAN BUT, ABOVE ALL ELSE, HE WAS A MAN WHO AIMED TO TOUCH THE SOULS… READ MORE MAY. 21, 19711 VIEWER20.7K VIEWS20 CONTRIBUTORSRIGHT ON LYRICS[INTRO]HEY BABY, THAT'S ALRIGHT PEOPLEI KNOW THAT'S ALRIGHTEVERYDAY, THAT'S ALRIGHTOH, WHEN WE LOVE EACH OTHER[VERSE 1]I KNOW THAT'S ALRIGHTOH JT FEEL , FEEL OH EVERYBODY FEEL GOD KNOW THAT'S ALRIGHT, Y[VERSE 2]SOME OF WERE BORN WH MONEY TO SPENDSOME OF WERE BORN FOR RAC TO WSOME OF ARE AWARE THAT 'S GOOD FOR TO RESOME OF FEEL THE ICY WD OF POVERTY BLOWG THE AIR[VERSE 3]FOR THOSE OF WHO SIMPLY LIKE TO SOCIALIZEFOR THOSE OF WHO TEND THE SICKAND HEED THE PEOPLE'S CRILET ME SAY TO YOU, RIGHT ON[BRIDGE]OH, FEEL , FEELYEAH, OH, OH, OH LORD, LORD, LORD, PEOPLEAND I SAY, RIGHT ONHONEY, RIGHT ONYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 4]FOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE WHERE PEACE IS CRAVEDFOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE, WHERE HATRED IS ENSLAVED, ALRIGHTFOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE A LIFE, YEAHSURROUND BY GOOD FORTUNE AND WEALTH (TALK ABOUT )[VERSE 5]FOR THOSE OF WHO LIVE A LIFE, HEY, HEY, HEY ENJOYG OURSELVFOR THOSE OF WHO GOT DROWNED THE SEA OF HAPPSFOR THE SOUL THAT TAK PRI HIS GODAND HIMSELF AND EVERYTHG ELSE[INSTMENTAL BREAK][VERSE 6]LOVE, LOVE, SWEET LOVE, LOVE, WONRFUL LOVEAH, TE LOVE, LOVE, LOVE FOR YOUR BROTHERAND LOVE, LOVE FOR GODLOVE, AH PURE LOVE[VERSE 7]AH TE LOVE N NQUER HATE EVERY TIMEGIVE OUT SOME LOVE AND YOU'LL FD PEACE SUBLIMEAND MY DARLG, ONE MORE THGIF YOU LET ME, I WILL TAKE YOU TO LIVE WHERE LOVE IS KGAH, BABY2EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

A Motown prodigy who would grow to one of the bt-sellg soul micians of his generatn, Marv Gaye (born Marv Pentz Gay Jr. Gaye’s staggerg body of endurg classics rang om soulful and sctive to polil and hnted. Still, Gaye’s mic remas beloved and meangful as ever.

As the Prce of Motown, so many of Gaye’s songs have bee anthems for the ag. Tough as is to choose favor om mil masterpiec like “Sexual Healg, ” “What’s Gog On, ” and, “A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg, ” we’ve round up 17 of the very bt Marv Gaye songs of all time. When Marv Gaye released “Let’s Get It On” back 1973, did he image would live on as the qutsential soundtrack for steamy romance scen for generatns to e?

Rumor has that Let’s Get It On was origally nceived as a relig song for alhol treatment, but Gaye transformed to a sexually charged, soulful love ballad for his future wife, Janis Hunter.

Marv Gaye warned of the vastatn of climate change before we knew about climate change. Gaye’s first major h, “Stubborn Kd of Fellow” brought somethg new to the Motown scene: a charmg male solo star. Wh s release, Gaye tablished himself as a sger wh both pop appeal and R&B grts.

From Gaye’s inic What’s Gog On album, “Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler)” scrib the equaly and social hardship the ghettos of urban Ameri. When the mid-70’s mass mand dance-iendly dis hs, Gaye gdggly (and perhaps even mutoly) mimics the genre “Got to Give It Up” (origally lled “Dancg Lady” as a nod towards “Dis Lady” by Johnnie Taylor.