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Contents:

• MARV GAYE’S 30 TOP SONGS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
• MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
• THE 10 BT MARV GAYE SONGS
• THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE – 10 OF THE BT
• MARV GAYE'S GREATT HS
• TOP MARV GAYE SONGS

MARV GAYE’S 30 TOP SONGS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

On April 1, 1984, Marv Gaye was killed, shot ad by his father Marv Gay, Sr. Gaye was one of Motown’s most soulful and socially aware artists, standg tall amongst peers and label mat like Stevie Wonr by igng spirs wh polilly charged cuts like “What’s Gog On” and equally providg heat for timate tim wh songs like “Let’s Get It On. Unlike some of his Motown label mat, Marv Gaye was not only a nuanced, soulful volist, but an expert songwrer, pable of craftg betiful, medative ballads as well as thumpg dance floor numbers.

Gaye was posthumoly ducted to the Songwrers Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his lible impact on popular mic and culture.

MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED

Marv Gaye, "Mic" Peak Posn: 22 | Peak Date: 7/14/2001. Marv Gaye & Mary Wells, "What's the Matter Wh You, Baby" Peak Posn: 17 | Peak Date: 7/4/1964. Marv Gaye & Mary Wells, "Once Upon a Time" Peak Posn: 19 | Peak Date: 6/6/1964.

Marv Gaye & Kim Wton, "It Tak Two" Peak Posn: 14 | Peak Date: 3/4/1967. Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "A't No Mounta High Enough" Peak Posn: 19 | Peak Date: 7/15/1967. Diana Ross & Marv Gaye, "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" Peak Posn: 19 | Peak Date: 5/4/1974.

Diana Ross & Marv Gaye, "You're a Special Part of Me" wh Diana Ross Peak Posn: 12 | Peak Date: 11/17/1973. Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" Peak Posn: 10 | Peak Date: 1/20/1968.

THE 10 BT MARV GAYE SONGS

Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "A't Nothg Like the Real Thg" Peak Posn: 8 | Peak Date: 5/25/1968. Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "You're All I Need to Get By" Peak Posn: 7 | Peak Date: 9/14/1968.

Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "Your Prec Love" Peak Posn: 5 | Peak Date: 11/4/1967. Marv Gaye 1973. Marv Gaye was one of the greatt sgers of all time, who rerd some of the ft ever soul songs a short perd of time.

Taken far too soon, Marv Gaye's mic took on var styl, om upliftg duets to heartbreakg ballads to socially-nsc 've taken his 10 very bt songs for the ultimate Marv Gaye troductn:.

THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE

Marv Gaye “How Sweet It Is” Live At Montrx Jazz Ftival 1980 HD. Wrten by the famo Holland–Dozier–Holland tr at Motown, this gave Marv Gaye his biggt h at the time song's tle was spired by one of Jackie Gleason's signature tchphras: "How Sweet It Is! Released on Motown's Tamla label 1966, this duet between Marv and Kim Wton scrib var thgs life - such as dreams, love and wish - beg far better wh two people stead of more: The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legendIn 1990, Rod Stewart and Ta Turner teamed up for a ver versn, takg to number five the UK.

Origally by Dn, this song was a tribute to four inic Amerins who were assassated: Abraham Lln, Mart Luther Kg Jr, John F Kennedy and Robert Gaye vered the song 1970, and was one of his first experiments socially-nsc mic, a year before his What's Gog On? A't No Mounta High Enough (extra HQ) - Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell. Songwrers Ashford & Simpson scribed this song as their 'goln egg' which got them their first Motown Sprgfield wanted to rerd first, but the duo turned her down so that they uld secure Motown, and land wh Marv and Tammi Terrell, who sred a big h wh their origal more: Tammi Terrell - The tragic life story of a Motown sger and how Marv Gaye never got over her athThree years later, Diana Ross achieved her first solo US number one wh a ver versn g a different arrangement.

MARV GAYE

Marv Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (From "Live at Montrx 1980" DVD). Album, this song is one of mic's most poignant anthems regardg the was a ln-seller, and was later vered by Robert Palmer 1990 as part of a medley wh Gaye's song 'I Want You'. Marv Gaye - Let's Get It On.

MARV GAYE – 10 OF THE BT

This was the song that saw Marv Gaye bee a sex symbol for the rt of his life. The tle track of his 1973 album, beme Marv's biggt h and one of his sgature wh Ed Townsend, was origally nceived as a relig song after Townsend had recently fished rehab, before Gaye transformed to an emotnal plea about love and sexual liberatn. Marv Gaye - What's Gog On (Official Vio 2019).

MARV GAYE'S GREATT HS

This song was -wrten by Renaldo 'Obie' Benson, Al Cleveland, and Marv Gaye, and produced by Gaye marked Gaye's parture om the Motown Sound of his prev output, towards more personal more: The Story of...

Gaye asked himself: "'Wh the world explodg around me, how am I supposed to keep sgg love songs? Marv Gaye - Sexual Healg. Marv Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapeve (Live at Montrx).

However, is Marv Gaye's versn om 1968 that beme the most inic, spe the fact that Motown chief Berry Gordy was not nvced would be a h at more: Marv Gaye's isolated vols om 'I Heard Through the Grapeve' will give you tglIt beme a h for a send time 1985, after s e the inic Levi's advert featurg a certa Nick Kamen at a lndrette. Would Marv Gaye have mataed his stat as one of the preement voic soul mic even amid the risg ti of hip-hop and harr edged R&B?

TOP MARV GAYE SONGS

While the other two artists mentned above make harr to make any absolute claims about their imaged futur, I thk ’s a ltle easier to image that Gaye would have found a way to thrive even while his peers were phed to mercial rndancy or started makg mic that felt beneath their abili. Gaye is one of the few Motown artists who me up through the ranks of that label’s star-makg system and ntued to evolve wh the tim up until his untimely ath one day shy of his 45th birthday.