Marv Gaye's 10 greatt songs ever, ranked - Smooth

Contents:

• EVERY GREAT MOTOWN H OF MARV GAYE
• EVERY GREAT MOTOWN H OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE – 10 OF THE BT
• EVERY GREAT MOTOWN H OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
• MARV GAYE

EVERY GREAT MOTOWN H OF MARV GAYE

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EVERY GREAT MOTOWN H OF MARV GAYE

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MARV GAYE – 10 OF THE BT

There's some great mic here; jt don't expect to fill your Marv Gaye llectn wh this one disc, and you'll be jt fe. After fg “the sound of young Ameri” wh the mid-Sixti pop elegance of Mary Wells, the Miracl, Marv Gaye, and the Temptatns, and the girl-group glory of the Suprem, the Marvelett, and Martha and the Vanllas, the label’s two most visnary artists, Gaye and Stevie Wonr, phed agast Gordy’s dictatorial le to create adventuro, socially nsc landmark Seventi albums like What’s Gog On and Innervisns, which expand Motown’s spe while stayg te to s re hmakg valu. The Origals only appeared as backup sgers through most of the Sixti, until they fally had a h wh a “Baby, I’m for Real, ” produced by Marv Gaye and -wrten wh his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye.

EVERY GREAT MOTOWN H OF MARV GAYE

They followed the next year wh equally lovely “The Bells, ” another h -thored and produced by Gaye. Marv Gaye, “Trouble Man” (1972).

MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED

Marv Gaye ma his big sre wh Trouble Man, the 1972 thriller about a ghetto kgp named Mister T.

Gaye sgs about street life his falsetto, clarg, “There’s only three thgs life that’s sure — tax, ath, and trouble.

But stori of the label the Seventi tend to foc on Stevie Wonr and Marv Gaye, to the excln of others. Marv Gaye, “Can I Get a Wns” (1963).

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Wh a boogie-woogie piano and church-steeped lyrics that blurred the sacred and the secular, “I Got a Wns” is arguably Gaye’s first classic h, arrivg September 1963. Marv Gaye, “I Want You” (1976). Gaye’s early Seventi albums tend to get more attentn than his work later the , but 1976’s I Want You is wildly amb and recklsly groovy, maybe nowhere more than s tle song.

Gaye threads multracked backg vols throughout almost the entire tune, sometim echog the lead lyric, sometim breakg the spell wh shatterg ad-libs — then kntg everythg back together by bathg the whole track the prettit of “ooohs” and “aaahs.

Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell, “A’t No Mounta High Enough” (1967).

Marv Gaye, “A’t That Peculiar” (1965).

Sce Smokey Robson wrote Marv Gaye’s first Number 1 R&B h, “I’ll Be Doggone, ” standard Motown operatg procre dictated that Robson produce the follow-up, too. Sweetened by female backg group the Adant, and showsg Gaye’s gift for ridg a great groove through the verse and brgg home on the chos, this went to Number One on the R&B Sgl chart and to the Top 10 of the Pop Sgl chart 1965.

Marv Gaye / Tammi Terrell.

Aid by some excellent songs and productns by Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell set a high bar for duets that will be hard to surpass.