‎Marv Gaye: The '60s on Apple Mic

Contents:

• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE: LOVE SONGS
• MARV GAYE
• THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE ESSENTIALS
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE: THE '60S

MARV GAYE

Whout Marv Gaye, both R&B as we know and Amerin pop general would have sound rather different. Born Washgton, DC, 1939, Gaye had a tough childhood before formg the vol group The Marque 1957. They beme a backg group for former Moonglows sger Harvey Fuqua, and by 1961 Gaye had moved to Detro, where he beme a ssn dmmer for Motown, playg on ton like The Marvelett’ “Please Mr.

The mercurial Gaye spent the next few years rerdg show tun and a Nat “Kg” Cole tribute album amid his more soulful sis.

” But Gaye began edgg toward a more emotnally and milly sophistited place wh 1968’s immortal “I Heard It Through the Grapeve, ” and 1971 he helped alter the urse of soul wh the socially nsc, plexly textured What’s Gog On. Gaye never stopped novatg—his smolrg, dis-iendly 1977 smash “Got to Give It Up” was a ccial fluence on Michael Jackson’s adult reer, and the synths and dm mache of 1982’s electro-soul burner “Sexual Healg” once aga led R&B someplace new.

MARV GAYE: LOVE SONGS

In addn to beg a righteo prott sger and a funk pneer, Marv Gaye was Motown's great poet of love. In the '60s, Gaye ma you feel the sweetns of love and the power of votn, pecially on his strg of upliftg duets wh Tammi Terrell.

MARV GAYE

In the '70s, Gaye's love songs grew more sensual and explic, but they're also eply spirual, shockgly personal, and tensely movg. Facebook (MarvGaye). Marv Gaye.

THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE

Marv Pentz Gay, Jr. Debutg on Motown 1961, Marv Gaye quickly beme the label's most charismatic voice, bg the tensy of gospel, the charm of doo-wop, and the timacy of a great ballaer. Gaye released dozens of classic soul hs throughout the '60s, but he also grew rtls wh the Motown formula.

Gaye died tragilly 1984 at the age of 44, but he left behd a remarkable and soulful legacy. The son of a mister, Gaye was raised on church mic and first ma his mark sgg backg vols on rerds by Chuck Berry and Etta Jam. Marv Gaye on Jango Rad | Songs, Vios, B.

MARV GAYE ESSENTIALS

When Marv Gaye brought the tle track of 1971’s What’s Gog On to Motown founr Berry Gordy, Gordy reportedly said was the worst thg he’d ever heard. Gaye untered.

Even Elvis was sgg prott songs (1969’s “In the Ghetto”)—why uldn’t Marv Gaye?

MARV GAYE

As Sly & The Fay Stone channeled their anger to to bter funk (1971’s There’s a Rt Go’ On), Gaye sublimated his lh strg sectns and Lat percsn—signals not jt of mil gentlens, but cultural sophistitn.

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MARV GAYE: THE '60S

You tch more fli wh honey than wh vegar, and as Gaye seems to say on What’s Gog On, you don’t have to be a hippie to be worried by what you see—you jt have to be human. Marv Gaye also appears this pilatn. Gaye Interview - (excerpt).

Wh his powerful voice, sly charm, and supreme nfince, Marv Gaye was the Motown star that everyone uld love. In the '60s, Gaye add a new matury to the upbeat Motown sound, and he rerd a n of movg duets wh fellow stars Tammi Terrell and Mary Wells.