'What's Gog On': When Marv Gaye Unveiled A Masterpiece | uDisver

Contents:

• MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ GETS 50TH ANNIVERSARY DIGAL REISSUE
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE’S LOST ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ FOLLOW UP, ‘YOU’RE THE MAN,’ SET FOR RELEASE
• ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE

MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ GETS 50TH ANNIVERSARY DIGAL REISSUE

Motown/UMe has marked the 50th anniversary of Marv Gaye’s sgle release for “What’s Gog On” — the tle track om Rollg Stone’s Greatt Album of All Time — wh an all-enpassg digal reissue of the 1971 LP out now on streamg servic.

To honor the sgle’s 50th birthday, Motown/UMe grouped together all that bon mic for the digal release dubbed What’s Gog On: Deluxe Edn/50th Anniversary, which ntas the origal album pl 12 bon tracks cludg sgle versns, mos and more, the “Detro Mix” of the album and the llectn of “Funky Natn” stmentals om Gaye’s post-What’s Gog On rerdg ssns.

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“The Detro Mix” of What’s Gog On, Gaye’s origal versn of the album before ncelg and reworkg Los Angel, prevly featured on the 30th anniversary reissue of the album 2001. “Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals, ” a seri of jams Gaye laid down the rerdg ssns after releasg What’s Gog On, was clud the 40th anniversary reissue.

“Through the regnn of What’s Gog On Day, we hope to brg awarens to Marv Gaye’s profound words as his timels mic remas our hearts and mds and ntu spirg generatns to e. Marv Gaye’s Lost ‘What’s Gog On’ Follow Up, ‘You’re the Man, ’ Set for Release.

Marv Gaye’s 1972 lost album, You’re the Man, will fally be released March 29th, jt days before what would’ve been the mician’s 80th birthday, April 2nd. You’re the Man was supposed to be the follow-up to Gaye’s 1971 classic, What’s Gog On. Gaye rerd the tracks for the would-be rerd Detro and Los Angel durg a particularly prolific perd, but none of them – save the tular sgle – were released at the time.

MARV GAYE’S LOST ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ FOLLOW UP, ‘YOU’RE THE MAN,’ SET FOR RELEASE

Gaye origally rerd “My Last Chance” around 1972, and though was never released, the song was revised as “I Love You Secretly” for the Miracl’ 1973 album, Renaissance. In the Neti, Motown issued a quiet storm-style mix of the track, which beme a mor posthumo h for Gaye, while 2001 the origal versn fally appeared on a bt-of pilatn.

The physil versn of the rerd wh new ler not om Gaye bgrapher, David Rz, who exam “Gaye’s eply personal ternal nflict as a source of creative vigor and emotnal burn as he experienced What’s Gog On‘s massive succs and all that me wh . Along wh issug You’re the Man, an expand versn of Gaye’s 1965 album, A Tribute to the Great Nat Kg Cole, is set to arrive digally March 15th. To unrstand the seismic shift the reer of Marv Gaye that was brought about by his bold new artistic directn on What’s Gog On, ’s worth steppg back to the Motown mastay’s prev LP release.

That rerd was That’s The Way Love Is, released all of 19 months earlier, the wake of Gaye’s summer 1969 h wh the nfintly upbeat tle track. Retreatg om view as he tired of his rponsibili as a sgl-oriented hmaker for Motown, Gaye’s 1970 release schle was filled wh pilatns.

‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE

But jt as his fellow Motown A-lister Stevie Wonr was reachg new creative matury, so did Gaye. Marv Gaye - What's Gog On (Official Vio 2019).

In a revealg terview wh Disc & Mic Echo as the new project was emergg, Gaye nfirmed that he had been through a perd of reappraisal of his place mic. Marv Gaye - What's Gog On (Live).

The album, unveiled on May 21, 1971, was hailed by Billboard as “a cross between Curtis Mayfield and that old Motown spell, and outdo anythg Gaye’s ever done. Marv Gaye - Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler). “The material is social mentary but there’s nothg extreme on , ” said Gaye that ntemporaneo terview.