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• THE COMMODOR’ ‘NIGHTSHIFT’: MARV GAYE FUELS SEND R&B NO.1 IN A ROW
• EXCLIVE: LNEL RICHIE RELLS HIS AMAZG CHANCE MEETG WH MARV GAYE
• LNEL RICHIE GH OVER MARV GAYE, STEVIE WONR: ‘I HAD THE BT MENTORS’
• MARV GAYE: 10 SONGS THAT TELL HIS STORY ON HIS 84TH BIRTHDAY
• BEANE GETS A STANDG OVATN ON ‘AMERIN IDOL’ AFTER BELTG OUT EPIC MARV GAYE COVER
• IS LNEL RICHIE GAY?
• NIGHTSHIFTCOMMODORTRACK 2 ON NIGHTSHIFT PRODUCED BYDENNIS LAMBERTTHE COMMODOR HAD BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, LONG ENOUGH THAT A LOT OF THEIR IENDS AND SPIRATNS DIED. THEY GIVE A SPECIAL DITN TO TWO OF THOSE IENDS, MARV… READ MORE JAN. 31, 19851 VIEWER88.2K VIEWS28 CONTRIBUTORSNIGHTSHIFT LYRICS[VERSE 1]MARV, HE WAS A IEND OF MEAND HE ULD SG A SONG, HIS HEART EVERY LEMARV SANG OF THE JOY AND PAHE OPENED UP OUR MDS, AND I STILL N HEAR HIM SAY"AW TALK TO ME, SO YOU N SEE, WHAT'S GOG ON"SAY YOU WILL SG YOUR SONGS FOREVERMORE[REA]GONNA BE SOME SWEET SOUNDS, G DOWN ON THE NIGHTSHIFTI BET YOU'RE SGG PROUD, I BET YOU'LL PULL A CROWDGONNA BE A LONG NIGHT, 'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFT[VERSE 2]JACKIE, HEY WHAT'YOU DOG NOW?IT SEEMS LIKE YTERDAY WHEN WE WERE WORKG OUTJACKIE, YOU SET THE WORLD ON FIREYOU ME AND GIFTED , YOUR LOVE LIFTED HIGHER AND HIGHERKEEP UP AND WE'LL BE THERE AT YOUR SISAY YOU WILL SG YOUR SONGS FOREVERMORE[REA]GONNA BE SOME SWEET SOUNDS, G DOWN ON THE NIGHTSHIFTI BET YOU'RE SGG PROUD, I BET YOU'LL PULL A CROWDGONNA BE A LONG NIGHT, 'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTGONNA BE SOME SWEET SOUNDS, G DOWN ON THE NIGHTSHIFTI BET YOU'RE SGG PROUD, I BET YOU'LL PULL A CROWDGONNA BE A LONG NIGHT, 'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTGONNA MISS YOUR SWEET VOICE, THAT SOULFUL NOISE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTWE ALL REMEMBER YOU, YOUR SONGS ARE G THROUGHAND AT THE END OF A LONG DAY, 'S GONNA BE OKAY, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE4EMBEDCANCELHOW 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 FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTHE COMMODOR HAD BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, LONG ENOUGH THAT A LOT OF THEIR IENDS AND SPIRATNS DIED. THEY GIVE A SPECIAL DITN TO TWO OF THOSE IENDS, MARV GAYE AND JACKIE WILSON. THE COMMODOR IMAGE THEM LIVG THE AFTERWORLD, WHICH THEY LL “THE NIGHTSHIFT.” NIGHT SHIFT WORKERS KNOW THAT ’S A HARD SHIFT, BEE YOU’RE OUT OF SYNC WH THE RT OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. YOU’RE BATHED DARKNS. BUT YOU’RE STILL ALIVE, AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE LIVG DAYLIGHT REMEMBER YOU.EXPAND +49SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WAS LNEL RICHIE WH THE COMMODOR THENGENI ANSWER2 NTRIBUTORSNO. LNEL LEFT 1982 TO PURSUE HIS SOLO REER, AND “NIGHTSHIFT” WAS THE COMMODOR' FIRST (AND ONLY) SIGNIFINT H AFTER HIS PARTURE.WHO WROTE GENI ANSWER2 NTRIBUTORSTHE SONG WAS WRTEN BY THE BAND’S LEAD SGER, WALTER ORANGE.WHO IS "JACKIE"?GENI ANSWER2 NTRIBUTORSTHE GREAT JACKIE WILSON, WHO HAD IMMENSE SUCCS THE 50S AND 60S AND WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS SHOWMANSHIP. UNFORTUNATELY, HE HAD A STROKE 1975 WHICH LED TO HIS PASSG 1984.WHO PRODUCED “NIGHTSHIFT” BY COMMODOR?WHEN DID COMMODOR RELEASE “NIGHTSHIFT”?WHO WROTE “NIGHTSHIFT” BY COMMODOR?NIGHTSHIFT (1985)COMMODOR1. ANIMAL INSTCT2. NIGHTSHIFT3. I KEEP RUNNG4. LAY BACK5. SLIP OF THE TONGUE6. PLAY THIS RERD TWICE7. JA8. THE WOMAN MY LIFE9. LIGHTG UP THE NIGHT (MISSG LYRICS)EXPAND CREDSPRODUCED BYDENNIS LAMBERTWRTEN BYFRANNE GOL, DENNIS LAMBERT & WALTER ORANGEBACKGROUND CHOIRDAVID SWANSON (CHRISTIAN), SHELDON REYNOLDS, TRACEE AUGFAR, PATRICIA HAML, DENNIS LAMBERT, WILLIAM KG, GREGORY ALEXANR, PHILLIP INGRAM, RONALD LAPREAD, DARRYL PHNSEE, DORIS GARRETT, AMBROSE PRICE, SIEDAH GARRETT, JAM DEAN NICHOLAS & WALTER ORANGEARRANGED BYPETER WOLF (PRODUCER)ENGEERJEREMY SMHMASTERED BYNICK WEBBLEAD VOLSJ.D. NICHOLAS & WALTER ORANGERELEASE DATEJANUARY 31, 1985SONGS THAT SAMPLE NIGHTSHIFTFETTY’S SONG (IT WAS ALL A DREAM) BY ROWDY REBEL, CENTOCTà BY ANTONELLO VENDTI, BETTER PLACE BY MC LYTE, LOSE TO W BY FANTASIA & HO-HAPPY JACKIE BY AZSONGS THAT INTERPOLATE NIGHTSHIFTGHOST DEI BY GHOSTFACE KILLAH (FT. SUPERB) & SWEET LOVE (NIGHT SHIFT) BY BY SIGNALNIGHTSHIFT COVERSNIGHTSHIFT BY BCE SPRGSTEEN & RACHE! BY J.B.O. (DEU)VIEW NIGHTSHIFT SAMPLTAGSR&BEIGHTIGOSPELEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• CA KHúC 'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE': CHặNG đườNG QUANH CủA MARV GAYE
• THE RELIGN AND POLIL VIEWS OF MARV GAYE
• LNEL RICHIE GH OVER MARV GAYE, STEVIE WONR: ‘I HAD THE BT MENTORS’
• MARV GAYE
• CA KHúC 'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE': CHặNG đườNG QUANH CủA MARV GAYE

THE COMMODOR’ ‘NIGHTSHIFT’: MARV GAYE FUELS SEND R&B NO.1 IN A ROW

The lyrics of ‘Nightshift’ uned Gaye wh another soul giant, Jackie Wilson, who had died jt three months earlier 1984. 1 to pay tribute to Marv Gaye h the top spot on March 16, 1985.

EXCLIVE: LNEL RICHIE RELLS HIS AMAZG CHANCE MEETG WH MARV GAYE

The lyrics of the song uned Gaye wh another R&B giant, Jackie Wilson, who had died jt three months earlier 1984.

LNEL RICHIE GH OVER MARV GAYE, STEVIE WONR: ‘I HAD THE BT MENTORS’

Songfacts®:"Nightshift" is a tribute to sgers Marv Gaye and Jackie Wilson, who both died 1984. Gaye was a Motown star known for love songs like "Let's Get It On" and "Sexual Healg.

" Wilson was 49 when he died; Gaye was 44. In the Commodor song, Marv Gaye and Jackie Wilson are on heaven's nightshift, playg some sweet songwrer Franne Gol was brought to help wh the lyrics. The song replaced, "Missg You" by Diana Ross, was also a tribute to Marv Gaye.

Lnel Richie is still gog strong and the 64-year-old crooner recently opened up about his new tour and also relled his first amazg meetg wh mic in Marv Gaye. Marv Gaye was rerdg and by accint, I went to the wrong rerdg room. “There’s Marv Gaye and there’s Stevie Wonr and there’s Berry Gordy and then you’ve got your you guys outsi.

MARV GAYE: 10 SONGS THAT TELL HIS STORY ON HIS 84TH BIRTHDAY

Sunday marks what would have been the 84th birthday of Motown legend Marv Gaye, as well as g a day after the 39th anniversary of his tragic ath. From his early life the projects, Gaye gaed regnn for his voice while sgg a Pentestal church. Let Your Conscience Be Your Gui (The Soulful Moods of Marv Gaye, 1961).

The first sgle released by a young Gaye me out before Motown was Motown.

BEANE GETS A STANDG OVATN ON ‘AMERIN IDOL’ AFTER BELTG OUT EPIC MARV GAYE COVER

Tamla 54041, which would later bee the inic label, phed for an R&B style while Gaye wanted a Frank Satra style pop album. It wouldn’t be until 1962 that Gaye would have his first real h, a funky dance number lled Hch Hike.

As well as -wrg the song and providg the vols, Gaye played dm and piano on the track which would give him his first top 40 h. Arguably Gaye’s most famo song – though his versn may not be - ‘A’t No Mounta…’ was almost rerd by Brish soul sger Dty Sprgfield but wrers Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson held back as their ‘goln egg’ that would get them accs to Motown. Diana Ross would later have the biggt h of her reer wh a ver of Gaye’s versn.

Flippg that particular script, Gaye took a prevly released song and took to new levels. ‘I Heard It Through the Grapeve# was origally a h for Gladys Knight & the Pips but really took off when clud on Gaye’s 1968 album In The Groove. Gaye’s most endurg legacy is surely What’s Gog On, the 1971 album which is equently ced as the greatt ever ma.

IS LNEL RICHIE GAY?

The sgle sold more than two ln pi si two weeks and lnched Gaye as a sex symbol. Followg a bter divorce om Motown, Gaye released his 17th and fal stud album 1982.

It was fally given a full release 2019 to ci wh what would have been Gaye’s 80th birthday. It was a direct spiratn for Michael Jackson on ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’ and was terpolated to Rob Thicke and Pharell Williams’ 2013 h ‘Blurred L’, leadg to a lawsu om the Gaye tate. A ttament to the legacy of Gaye, this morn soul song pays tribute to the man himself, Otis Reddg, Sam Cooke and Elvis Prley.

NIGHTSHIFTCOMMODORTRACK 2 ON NIGHTSHIFT PRODUCED BYDENNIS LAMBERTTHE COMMODOR HAD BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, LONG ENOUGH THAT A LOT OF THEIR IENDS AND SPIRATNS DIED. THEY GIVE A SPECIAL DITN TO TWO OF THOSE IENDS, MARV… READ MORE JAN. 31, 19851 VIEWER88.2K VIEWS28 CONTRIBUTORSNIGHTSHIFT LYRICS[VERSE 1]MARV, HE WAS A IEND OF MEAND HE ULD SG A SONG, HIS HEART EVERY LEMARV SANG OF THE JOY AND PAHE OPENED UP OUR MDS, AND I STILL N HEAR HIM SAY"AW TALK TO ME, SO YOU N SEE, WHAT'S GOG ON"SAY YOU WILL SG YOUR SONGS FOREVERMORE[REA]GONNA BE SOME SWEET SOUNDS, G DOWN ON THE NIGHTSHIFTI BET YOU'RE SGG PROUD, I BET YOU'LL PULL A CROWDGONNA BE A LONG NIGHT, 'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFT[VERSE 2]JACKIE, HEY WHAT'YOU DOG NOW?IT SEEMS LIKE YTERDAY WHEN WE WERE WORKG OUTJACKIE, YOU SET THE WORLD ON FIREYOU ME AND GIFTED , YOUR LOVE LIFTED HIGHER AND HIGHERKEEP UP AND WE'LL BE THERE AT YOUR SISAY YOU WILL SG YOUR SONGS FOREVERMORE[REA]GONNA BE SOME SWEET SOUNDS, G DOWN ON THE NIGHTSHIFTI BET YOU'RE SGG PROUD, I BET YOU'LL PULL A CROWDGONNA BE A LONG NIGHT, 'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTGONNA BE SOME SWEET SOUNDS, G DOWN ON THE NIGHTSHIFTI BET YOU'RE SGG PROUD, I BET YOU'LL PULL A CROWDGONNA BE A LONG NIGHT, 'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTGONNA MISS YOUR SWEET VOICE, THAT SOULFUL NOISE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTWE ALL REMEMBER YOU, YOUR SONGS ARE G THROUGHAND AT THE END OF A LONG DAY, 'S GONNA BE OKAY, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU FOUND ANOTHER HOME, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ON THE NIGHTSHIFTYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE4EMBEDCANCELHOW 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 FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTHE COMMODOR HAD BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, LONG ENOUGH THAT A LOT OF THEIR IENDS AND SPIRATNS DIED. THEY GIVE A SPECIAL DITN TO TWO OF THOSE IENDS, MARV GAYE AND JACKIE WILSON. THE COMMODOR IMAGE THEM LIVG THE AFTERWORLD, WHICH THEY LL “THE NIGHTSHIFT.” NIGHT SHIFT WORKERS KNOW THAT ’S A HARD SHIFT, BEE YOU’RE OUT OF SYNC WH THE RT OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. YOU’RE BATHED DARKNS. BUT YOU’RE STILL ALIVE, AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE LIVG DAYLIGHT REMEMBER YOU.EXPAND +49SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WAS LNEL RICHIE WH THE COMMODOR THENGENI ANSWER2 NTRIBUTORSNO. LNEL LEFT 1982 TO PURSUE HIS SOLO REER, AND “NIGHTSHIFT” WAS THE COMMODOR' FIRST (AND ONLY) SIGNIFINT H AFTER HIS PARTURE.WHO WROTE GENI ANSWER2 NTRIBUTORSTHE SONG WAS WRTEN BY THE BAND’S LEAD SGER, WALTER ORANGE.WHO IS "JACKIE"?GENI ANSWER2 NTRIBUTORSTHE GREAT JACKIE WILSON, WHO HAD IMMENSE SUCCS THE 50S AND 60S AND WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS SHOWMANSHIP. UNFORTUNATELY, HE HAD A STROKE 1975 WHICH LED TO HIS PASSG 1984.WHO PRODUCED “NIGHTSHIFT” BY COMMODOR?WHEN DID COMMODOR RELEASE “NIGHTSHIFT”?WHO WROTE “NIGHTSHIFT” BY COMMODOR?NIGHTSHIFT (1985)COMMODOR1. ANIMAL INSTCT2. NIGHTSHIFT3. I KEEP RUNNG4. LAY BACK5. SLIP OF THE TONGUE6. PLAY THIS RERD TWICE7. JA8. THE WOMAN MY LIFE9. LIGHTG UP THE NIGHT (MISSG LYRICS)EXPAND CREDSPRODUCED BYDENNIS LAMBERTWRTEN BYFRANNE GOL, DENNIS LAMBERT & WALTER ORANGEBACKGROUND CHOIRDAVID SWANSON (CHRISTIAN), SHELDON REYNOLDS, TRACEE AUGFAR, PATRICIA HAML, DENNIS LAMBERT, WILLIAM KG, GREGORY ALEXANR, PHILLIP INGRAM, RONALD LAPREAD, DARRYL PHNSEE, DORIS GARRETT, AMBROSE PRICE, SIEDAH GARRETT, JAM DEAN NICHOLAS & WALTER ORANGEARRANGED BYPETER WOLF (PRODUCER)ENGEERJEREMY SMHMASTERED BYNICK WEBBLEAD VOLSJ.D. NICHOLAS & WALTER ORANGERELEASE DATEJANUARY 31, 1985SONGS THAT SAMPLE NIGHTSHIFTFETTY’S SONG (IT WAS ALL A DREAM) BY ROWDY REBEL, CENTOCTà BY ANTONELLO VENDTI, BETTER PLACE BY MC LYTE, LOSE TO W BY FANTASIA & HO-HAPPY JACKIE BY AZSONGS THAT INTERPOLATE NIGHTSHIFTGHOST DEI BY GHOSTFACE KILLAH (FT. SUPERB) & SWEET LOVE (NIGHT SHIFT) BY BY SIGNALNIGHTSHIFT COVERSNIGHTSHIFT BY BCE SPRGSTEEN & RACHE! BY J.B.O. (DEU)VIEW NIGHTSHIFT SAMPLTAGSR&BEIGHTIGOSPELEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

A’t That Peculiar (Moods of Marv Gaye, 1965). Gaye’s send ln-seller, ‘A’t That Peculiar’ tells the story of a failed relatnship, and beme one of the Motown legend’s signature songs.

Rerd as a tribute to Gaye and Jackie Wilson a year after their rpective aths, proved to be The Commodor’ only top 10 h followg the parture of Lnel Richie.

The send sgle om What’s Gog On saw Gaye lament the stctn beg wrought on the environment: “Where did all the blue ski go? The song was wrten by lead sger Walter Orange llaboratn wh Dennis Lambert and Franne Gol, as a lovg tribute to soul/R&B sgers Jackie Wilson and Marv Gaye, both of whom died 1984. The verse on Marv Gaye mentns his song "What's Gog On", while the verse on Jackie Wilson mentns his songs "Baby Workout" and "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher".

CA KHúC 'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE': CHặNG đườNG QUANH CủA MARV GAYE

After Perry’s advice to Beane to “sg wh diamonds your ey, ” he then belted out an credible versn of Marv Gaye’s “What’s Gog On”. He -wrote “Ask The Lonely” and “Lovg You Is Sweeter Than Ever” by Four Tops, Martha And The Vanllas’ anthem “Dancg In The Street” and The Spners’ ‘I’ll Always Love You’, and he produced the 1968 Top 40 h sgle “You” for Marv Gaye. He posed “Hch Hike” for Marv Gaye and -posed the energetic “Fgertips, ” which, as the live rerdg “Fgertips – Part 2, ” Stevie Wonr took No.

If Harvey Fuqua did nothg but tablish the R&B and doo-wop group The Moonglows, wh whom Marv Gaye got his start, that would have been enough. Fuqua brought Tammi Terrell to the label and began to produce her classic duets wh Marv Gaye, cludg ”A’t No Mounta High Enough, ” “Your Prec Love, ” “If This World Were Me” and “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You. Wilson wrote several hs, among them “Chaed” (for Marv Gaye) and “You’ve Ma Me So Very Happy, ” (Brenda Holloway), which, two years later, bee a gigantic h for Blood, Sweat And Tears.

” which he -wrote wh Ivy Jo Hunter and Marv Gaye; “It Tak Two, ” -wrten wh Sylvia Moy for Gaye and Kim Wton, Stevenson’s former wife; “Ask the Lonely, ” for Four Tops; Jimmy Ruff’s “What Be Of The Brokenhearted”, and Gaye’s “Stubborn Kd Of Fellow.

THE RELIGN AND POLIL VIEWS OF MARV GAYE

6: Marv Gaye.

Known as the “Prce Of Motown”, Marv Pentz Gaye beme a superstar solo act, but his work as a key songwrer and producer for Motown should not be overstated. Reworkg an origal ia by Renaldo “Obie” Benson, Gaye veloped the classic song “What’s Gog On. ” On this masterwork of the same name, Gaye ntued to velop his songwrg, posg “Mercy, Mercy Me (The Elogy)” and “Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler).

LNEL RICHIE GH OVER MARV GAYE, STEVIE WONR: ‘I HAD THE BT MENTORS’

1 h for Gaye 1973, and the parent album was both mercially succsful and revered by crics. Throughout the 70s, Gaye’s songwrg and producg rulted further landmark works such as ‘I Want You’, “Got To Give It Up, ” and untls others. Marv Gaye - Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler).

Jog the label as staff wrers 1966, the uple was assigned to Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and they wrote and/or produced all but one of the duo’s late-60s sgl, cludg some of Motown’s bt duets, such as “A’t No Mounta High Enough, ” “Your Prec Love, ” “A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” and “You’re All I Need To Get By. Startg the qualy-ntrol partment, he went on to -wre Marv Gaye’s h “Pri And Joy, ” The Marvelett’ “Too Many Fish In The Sea, ” and The Velvelett’ “Needle In A Haystack. ” He also crafted ‘War’ for Edw Star and “I Heard Through The Grapeve, ” which Gladys Knight And The Pips tackled 1967 before Marv Gaye ma a crossover smash the followg year.

Addnally, he’s also rponsible for ‘My Guy’, which Mary Wells took to the top of the charts; “The Way You Do The Thgs You Do” “My Girl, ” “Sce I Lost My Baby” and “Get Ready, ” all gifted to The Temptatns; and “A’t That Peculiar, ” which beme Marv Gaye’s send No. 1 h sgl, such as Martha And The Vanllas’ “Heat Wave” and Marv Gaye’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), ” and they also turned out classics for Four Tops (“Baby I Need You Lovg, ” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There”) and The Suprem, penng ten out of the latter group’s 12 No. Lnel Richie has never ma any public statement about this, so all mors about if Lnel Richie is gay rema pletely unfound and unproven.

MARV GAYE

While folks still say Lnel Richie is gay, their ments hold no nsistency or accuracy of any sort. More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Lnel Richie sce this celebry never said so. Although Lnel Richie has refed on numero ocsns to beg homosexual, mors are nstantly found on-le.

Although Lnel Richie has never stated beg homosexual, beg a famo sger and homosexual is somethg unrstood as normal by the society. Marv Gaye. Crowned "The Prce of Motown" the 1960s, Marv Gaye had many h songs, cludg "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), " "Let's Get It On, " the Grammy®-wng "Sexual Healg" and "I Heard It Through the Grapeve, " also performed by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Điều này khiến không ít nghệ sĩ của hãng cảm thấy khó chịu, nhưng thỉnh thoảng ông thật sự nảy ra những ý tưởng diệu kỳ - như trường hợp phiên bản I Heard It Through the Grapeve (Anh đã nghe t đó qua giàn nho) năm 1968 của Marv Gaye, vốn đã thành công vang dội 1 năm trước đó nhờ The Gladys Knight and the Pips. Whfield và đồng tác giả Barrett Strong đã để nhịp chậm hơn, bí ẩn hơn, và khúc - mà ban đầu Gaye từ chối thu âm - trở thành đĩa đơn Motown bán chạy nhất thập kỷ.

CA KHúC 'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE': CHặNG đườNG QUANH CủA MARV GAYE

"I Heard It Through the Grapeve" đã đưa Marv Gaye lên tầm o mớiS đó, Strong đã mời nhóm nhạc sĩ Holland-Dozier-Holland của Motown viết cùng nhưng bị từ chối.