Disver Number 1's by Marv Gaye released 2007. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic.
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MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
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Marv Gaye's Number 1's, like the other Number 1's discs issued by Universal Mic Distributn durg early 2007, is an attractive package that would nohels have trouble survivg a mor spill or even a swift breeze. Of urse, Gaye's talog go fathoms eper than the chart-toppers, but this mak a fe troductn. Marv Gaye, byname of Marv Pentz Gay, Jr., (born April 2, 1939, Washgton, D.C., U.S.—died April 1, 1984, Los Angel, California), Amerin soul sger-songwrer-producer who, to a large extent, hered the era of artist-ntrolled popular mic of the 1970s.Gaye’s father was a storeont preacher; his mother was a domtic worker.
Gaye sang his father’s Evangelil church Washgton, D.C., and beme a member of a natnally known doo-wop group, the Moonglows, unr the directn of Harvey Fuqua, one of the genre’s foremost matros, who reloted the group to Chigo. When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony.
MARV GAYE’S 30 TOP SONGS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
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After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds. Gaye, who also played dms and piano, bucked the Motown system and s emphasis on teen hs.