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PDF generated at: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:02:19 UTC Contents Articles Overview 1 Marvin Gaye 1 Discography 18 Marvin Gaye discography 18 Studio albums 25 The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye 25 That Stubborn Kinda Fellow 27 When I'm Alone I Cry 28 Hello Broadway 30 How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You 31 A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole 32 Moods of Marvin Gaye 34 I Heard It Through the Grapevine 36 M.P.G. 38 That's the Way Love Is 40 What's Going On 42 Let's Get It On 51 I Want You 62 Here, My Dear 71 In Our Lifetime 76 Midnight Love 81 Dream of a Lifetime 85 Romantically Yours 88 Vulnerable 89 Soundtrack albums 92 Trouble Man 92 Duet albums 95 Together 95 Take Two 97 United 98 You're All I Need 100 Easy 103 Diana & Marvin 105 Live albums 110 Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage 110 Marvin Gaye Live! 111 Live at the London Palladium 113 Marvin Gaye at the Copa 118 Compilation albums 120 Greatest Hits 120 Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 122 Marvin Gaye and His Girls 123 Super Hits 125 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits 126 Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits 127 Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters 128 The Marvin Gaye Collection 129 The Norman Whitfield Sessions 132 The Very Best of Marvin Gaye 133 The Master 136 Anthology: Marvin Gaye 139 Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs 142 The Complete Duets 143 Associated albums 146 Irresistible 146 The Essential Collection 148 Tribute albums 150 Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye 150 Tribute songs 151 "Missing You" 151 "Nightshift" 153 Singles 155 "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" 155 "Mr. Sandman" 156 "Soldier's Plea" 160 "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" 161 "Hitch Hike" 163 "Pride and Joy" 165 "Can I Get a Witness" 167 "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" 168 "You're a Wonderful One" 169 "Once Upon a Time" 170 "What's the Matter with You Baby" 171 "Try It Baby" 172 "Baby Don't You Do It" 173 "What Good Am I Without You" 176 "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" 177 "I'll Be Doggone" 179 "Pretty Little Baby" 181 "Ain't That Peculiar" 182 "One More Heartache" 184 "Take This Heart of Mine" 186 "Little Darling (I Need You)" 187 "It Takes Two" 188 "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" 190 "Your Unchanging Love" 194 "Your Precious Love" 195 "You" 196 "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" 198 "If This World Were Mine" 199 "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" 200 "You're All I Need to Get By" 203 "Chained" 206 "Keep On Lovin' Me Honey" 207 "You Ain't Livin' till You're Lovin'" 208 "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" 209 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" 210 "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" 217 "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" 218 "That's the Way Love Is" 220 "Abraham, Martin and John" 222 "What You Gave Me" 224 "How Can I Forget" 224 "Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" 226 "The Onion Song" 227 "California Soul" 228 "The End of Our Road" 229 "What's Going On" 229 "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" 238 "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" 240 "Save the Children" 244 "You're the Man" 245 "Trouble Man" 246 "I Want to Come Home for Christmas" 247 "Let's Get It On" 249 "You're a Special Part of Me" 253 "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" 254 "Come Get to This" 256 "You Sure Love to Ball" 258 "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" 260 "Don't Knock My Love" 261 "You Are Everything" 262 "Distant Lover" 265 "I Want You" 268 "After the Dance" 272 "Since I Had You" 274 "Got to Give It Up" 275 "Pops, We Love You (A Tribute to Father)" 281 "A Funky Space Reincarnation" 282 "Anger" 284 "Ego Tripping Out" 286 "Praise" 287 "Heavy Love Affair" 288 "Sexual Healing" 289 "My Love Is Waiting" 296 "'Til Tomorrow" 298 "Joy" 300 "Sanctified Lady" 301 "It's Madness" 302 "Just Like" 303 "The World Is Rated X" 304 "My Last Chance" 305 "Lucky, Lucky Me" 306 "Music" 307 Videography 309 T.A.M.I. Show 309 Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever 313 Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 317 The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981) 319 Family 321 Marvin Gay, Sr. 321 Alberta Gay 324 Frankie Gaye 325 Anna Gordy Gaye 327 Denise Gordy 330 Janis Gaye 332 Nona Gaye 349 Gordon Banks 351 Associated acts 353 Harvey Fuqua 353 The Moonglows 355 The Marvelettes 359 The Originals 366 Barbara Randolph 371 Diana Ross 373 The Supremes 384 The Temptations 396 Tammi Terrell 416 Martha and the Vandellas 421 Mary Wells 428 Kim Weston 434 Associated people 436 Lem Barney 436 Mel Farr 438 David Ritz 440 Elgie Stover 442 Kenneth Stover 442 Ed Townsend 443 Related articles 445 Death of Marvin Gaye 445 Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye 448 Marvin's Room 449 1983 NBA All-Star Game 450 References Article Sources and Contributors 454 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 463 Article Licenses License 464 1 Overview Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye in 1973 Background information [1] Birth name Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. Also known Prince of Soul, Prince of Motown as Born April 2, 1939 Washington, D.C. Died April 1, 1984 (aged 44) Los Angeles, California Genres R&B, soul, doo-wop, funk, quiet storm Occupations Singer-songwriter, composer, musician, record producer Instruments Vocals, keyboards, drums, percussion, clavinet, synthesizers, piano Years active 1958–1984 Labels Motown (Tamla-Motown), Columbia Associated The Moonglows, Martha and the Vandellas, Tammi Terrell, The Originals, Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross, Harvey Fuqua, acts Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy, Don Hussein Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range.[2] Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown"[3] and "The Prince of Soul".[4] because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell. His work in the early and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death. Gaye was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.[5] In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye at number 6 on its list of the Greatest Singers of All Time,[6] and ranked at number 18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[7] He was also ranked at number 20 on VH1's list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[8] Marvin Gaye 2 Biography Early life (1939–1957) Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.[1] was born on April 2, 1939 at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.. His father, Marvin Gay, Sr., was a minister at the House of God (the House of God headquarters is located in Lexington, Kentucky), which advocated strict conduct and taught and believed in both the old and new Testament. His mother, Alberta Gay (née Cooper), was a domestic and schoolteacher. Gaye was the second eldest of four children. His younger brother, Frankie (1941–2001), would be one of the main sources of Gaye's musical development and later served as a soldier in the Vietnam War and embarked on a singing career upon his return to civilian life to follow in his elder brother's footsteps. His youngest sister, Zeola "Sweetsie" Gay (born 1945), would later become the main choreographer of her brother's live shows. As a child, Gaye was raised in the Benning Terrace projects in southeast D.C.[9] Gaye's father was minister of a local Seventh-day Adventist Church for a time. By the time his eldest son was five, Marvin Sr. was bringing Gaye with him to church revivals to sing for church congregations. Gaye's father was assured all four of his children would follow him into the ministry and would later use his strict domineering to get his children to avoid secular activities including sports and secular music. Gaye's early home life was marked by violence as his father would often strike him for any shortcoming. Gaye and his three siblings were bed-wetters as children.[10] Gaye would later call his father a "tyrannical and powerful king" and said he was depressed as a child, convinced that he would eventually "become one of those child statistics that you read in the papers" had he not been encouraged to pursue his dreams by his mother.[10] By age fourteen, Gaye's parents moved to the Deanwood neighborhood of northeast D.C.