Happy Birthday, Marv Gaye!

Contents:

• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A LEGEND, MARV GAYE
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: 5 MEMORABLE LIVE PERFORMANC
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE, GREAT MARV GAYE!
• MARV GAYE
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARV GAYE!
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LEGENDARY SOUL SGER MARV GAYE
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: ISOLATED VOL TRACKS
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: REMEMBERG THE PRCE OF SOUL
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE!
• FLASHBACK FRIDAYS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARV GAYE
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: PERFORMG ‘LIVE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM’ IN 1976
• HIGHER GROUND: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE MIX

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A LEGEND, MARV GAYE

Marv Gaye was a staple of the Motown era and he ntu to be an in for the hs that he lent to popular culture.

Although his life me to a vastatg end on April 1, 1984, today, April 2, is the day to celebrate his birthday and the joy that Gaye’s mic has brought to lns around the world.

Gaye is nsistently regard as one of the greatt soul and R&B sgers of all time, and his seemgly endls list of inic songs are still spirg mic and young artists today. In 1987, Gaye was posthumoly ducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwrers Hall Of Fame 2016.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: 5 MEMORABLE LIVE PERFORMANC

Today would have been masterful soul sger Marv Gaye’s 81st birthday had he not been tragilly shot and killed by his father one day shy of his 45th birthday April 1984. Gaye performed “The Star Spangled Banner” before the 1983 NBA All-Star Game at The Fom Los Angel.

One of the most memorable rendns of the anthem, Gaye had the crowd swayg and clappg along by the end of song. It is difficult to overstate the importance of Marv Gaye on the popular mic of the last 40 years.

C., the son of a disturbed, vlent mister, Gaye (then Marv Gay) grew up wh a hard-wired attractn to and gift for mic, which he nurtured om childhood on. Gaye went on to marry Gordy's sister, Anna -- a marriage that would end bter divorce the mid-70s. Gaye had the longg at Motown to be a jazz sger, and much of his early work was moled after Nat "Kg" Cole and Billy Eckste.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE, GREAT MARV GAYE!

The bt of his jazz discs was When I'm Alone I Cry, an album of standards such as "I'll Be Around" and "I Was Tellg Her About You" that showed Gaye to be an unrstated (and somewhat unspirg) jazz stylist, but which was nohels an extremely enjoyable album wh great song selectn and productn.

While Gaye was dreamg of Jazz credibily, Gordy saw him the potential to be a dynamic, romantic popular Soul sger. Consequently, Gaye was provid some of Motown's bt material over the perd 1962-68, cludg the smash hs "Stubborn Kd of Fellow, " "Pri and Joy, " "A't that Peculiar, " and "I'll Be Doggone.

MARV GAYE

Durg the latter half of the 60s, Gaye also beme a much-touted duet partner, srg hs wh Mary Wells, Kim Wton and, most importantly, Tammi Terrell, wh whom he cut a seri of outstandg cuts, cludg "If This World Were Me, " "A't Nothg Like The Real Thg, " "A't No Mounta High Enough" and "Your Prec Love.

Seemgly always dissatisfied wh his current suatn, Gaye wanred through many personal stag the late 60s, cludg an attempt to play profsnal football for the Detro Lns and the begng of experimentatn wh dgs.

Released agast Berry Gordy's will, the disc beme one of Gaye's biggt, and opened the doors for other artists (most notably Stevie Wonr) to flex their creative mcl. Embolned by the succs of the disc, and after cuttg an enjoyable, more predictable 1973 album of duets wh Diana Ross, 1974 Gaye released Let's Get It On.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARV GAYE!

The batn of the two albums, along wh Gaye's other albums of this era (Trouble Man and I Want You) clearly showed the wild breadth of ias and nflictg thoughts Gaye's head. After his #1 1979 album, Live at the Palladium (featurg the magnificent dance tune, "Got To Give It Up"), Gaye's divorce om Anna Gordy led to the somewhat bter, erratic Here My Dear (a sarstic tle referencg the alimony payments that the proceeds of the album would be ed to pay). He followed 1981 wh In Our Lifetime, his least succsful album almost two s and a seemg signal that dg and personal problems had led Gaye to the end of his mercial appeal.

So me as a clear surprise when Gaye, by then based Europe, signed wh Columbia Rerds and released 1982's Midnight Love, an across the board smash. Unfortunately, the return clud time wh his creasgly erratic father, who shot and killed Gaye April of that year after an argument. When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony.

After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds. Gaye also enjoyed a seri of succsful duets, most notably wh Tammi Terrell (“A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” [1968]).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LEGENDARY SOUL SGER MARV GAYE

Blsed wh an exceptnally wi range that enpassed three distct vol styl—a piercg falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a ep gospel growl—Gaye bed great technil prows wh rare mil dividualy. Gaye also displayed dazzlg virtuosy by overdubbg (buildg sound track by track onto a sgle tape) his own voice three or four tim to provi his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rt of his reer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: ISOLATED VOL TRACKS

”Other major artists—most importantly Stevie Wonr—followed Gaye’s lead and acted as producer of their own efforts. In 1972 Gaye wrote the soundtrack for the film Trouble Man, wh lyrics that mirrored his own sense of secury. Here, My Dear (1979) brilliantly alt wh Gaye’s divorce om Gordy’s sister Anna (the first of the sger’s two tumultuo divorc)’s growg addictn to e exacerbated his psychologil stggl.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: REMEMBERG THE PRCE OF SOUL

On April 1, 1984, durg a fay dispute, Gaye iated a vlent fight wh his father, who shot him to ath. Gaye, who ced his chief fluenc as Ray Charl, Cly McPhatter, Rudy Wt (lead sger for the doo-wop group the Five Keys), and Ltle Willie John, was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987.

He received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement an artist who employed urban soul mic to exprs social and personal ncerns, as well as a sger of exquise sensivy and romantic grace, Gaye left a legacy that has wined sce his mise, and his mic has bee a permanent fixture Amerin pop.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE!

Marv Gaye's fluence on mic is profound, which is why a mon argument agast the "Blurred L" verdict is that a majory of R&B songs created by artists are liable to be sued jt like Pharrell and Rob Thicke bee his sound is everywhere. Gaye should be one of your first thoughts if you're talkg about the most fluential sger-songwrers of all time. He would've been 76 years old today (April 2) he beme the legend that he is, Gaye was known as one of Motown's (then known as Tamla) talented artists.

The sger even felt that Tamla was unsympathetic to her passg and treated her as a Gaye emerged out of that darkns and chaos wh 1971's What's Gog On, one of the greatt, pathos-reachg achievements morn mic.

At s re a cry for human empathy, the greatns of the What's Gog On album still ronat (and, some ways, hnts) bee of how s unrlyg turmoil and bluy look at urban y ("Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler)") are still relevant 's Gog On is Gaye's greatt work, but not his lone sential. Gaye's greatns is here to Marv Gaye Perform "What's Gog On" & "What's Happeng Brother"See 10 Mic Milton From Great Black Artists. Grammy Award-wng sger and songwrer Marv Gaye remas as one of the most forward-thkg and fluential soul micians of all time.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARV GAYE

Although his father was eply relig, Gaye would often have to endure btal beatgs and severe punishment.

The abe later led to rebelln, and Gaye would drop out of high school to jo several doo-wop vol groups the cy. After the group disband, Gaye joed Fuqua Detro and worked for Anna Rerds (a precursor for Motown) as a handyman and odd jobs employee.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: PERFORMG ‘LIVE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM’ IN 1976

However, was a chance meetg wh Motown CEO Berry Gordy that turned the tis of Gaye’s reer for the better. After hearg Gaye sg at his hoe, Gordy joed a jot ntract agreement wh Fuqua and signed him to the label’s Tamla subsidiary. He would release his first album 1961 lled “The Soulful Moods Of Marv Gaye” but the album was not a succs.

HIGHER GROUND: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE MIX

Gaye would release a strg of top ten R&B sgl and released an album wh sger Mary Wells tled “Together” 1964.