Get ready for holiday mic! Roots founr Ahmir "Qutlove" Thompson shar his Christmas playlist, which clus songs by DRAM, Jam Brown, Marv Gaye and Stevie Wonr.
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MARV GAYE
Watch the mic vio for "I Want To Come Home For Christmas" by Marv Gaye on Apple Mic. * marvin gaye xmas songs *
In “What Christmas Means to Me, ” bells jgle-jangle csantly but otherwise ’s pure Tamla, wh a teenaged Stevie Wonr sgg glorly on an upbeat melody before liverg some angelic harmoni on a song -wrten by Anna Gaye (the sister of Berry Gordy, and first wife of Marv Gaye). Marv Gaye: Purple Snowflak. Marv Gaye took his song “Pretty Ltle Baby” and re-worked 1973 to a seasonal song lled “Purple Snowflak, ” which has a psychelic feel.
Gaye’s hntg yet magil song scrib how somethg as simple as watchg snow fall n have a life-affirmg effect. ” Wton – known for the h duet “It Tak Two” wh Marv Gaye – rerd her ftive classic when she was jt 22 and newly signed to Motown.
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MARV GAYE’S ‘I WANT TO BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS’ GETS AN ANIMATED UPDATE FOR VETERAN’S GROUP
Motown Rerds teamed up wh the Paralyzed Veterans of Ameri (PVA) for an animated vio acpanyg Marv Gaye’s ‘I Want To Be Home For Christmas.’ * marvin gaye xmas songs *
Marv Gaye has ma Christmas mic magic. Gaye’s now-anthemic song, which was released posthumoly, was wrten 1972 – a year after his brother Frankie had returned om ary service Vietnam and stggled to fd employment.
Read about The Christmas Song by Marv Gaye and see the artwork, lyrics and siar artists. * marvin gaye xmas songs *
Marv Gaye - Photo: YouTube/UMe/Motown/Tim Fox. In honor of Veterans Day and Ameri’s veterans and servicemen and servicewomen, Motown/UMe and Paralyzed Veterans of Ameri (PVA) have teamed up to premiere a new animated vio for Marv Gaye’s poignant holiday masterpiece song, “I Want to Come Home For Christmas.
Honorg veterans, and givg voice to the experience of so many returng service members, Gaye threw himself to wrg and rerdg R&B’s historic seamls ncept album, What’s Gog On.
Marv Gaye - I Want To Come Home For Christmas (Official Mic Vio). When poser Fort Hairston approached Gaye wh the ncept of a song supportg Ameri’s prisoners of war, Gaye crafted “I Want to Come Home For Christmas.
Watch the vio for I Want To Come Home For Christmas om Marv Gaye's Christmas Wonrland Collectn for ee, and see the artwork, lyrics and siar artists. * marvin gaye xmas songs *
“When PVA was approached to team wh Motown/UMe celebratn of a new Marv Gaye song about a soldier wantg to be home for Christmas, we had to say y, ” said Charl Brown, PVA Natnal Print. We uldn’t thk of anythg more appropriate than lnchg Marv Gaye’s new song and vio on Veteran’s Day. Marv Gaye knew first-hand what so many veterans and their loved on experience and giv an anthemic voice wh ‘I Want to Come Home for Christmas’ the way that only Marv n.
” Fox tak an imprsnistic approach, g emotive waterlor strok to brg a livels to the story behd Marv Gaye’s masterpiece.
The vio shows moments the stud, Gaye drivg a Christmas taxi b to Helpg Hands, and a touchg scene durg which he embrac his dghter.