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Artist > Marvin Gaye
 Here My Dear
Marvin Gaye
$34.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - 2 LPs Sealed
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Ranked 462/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Marvin Gaye's soul baring concept album about the pitfalls of love and divorce was originally released in 1976 on the Motown subsidiary Tamla Records. As a condition of his divorce from then-wife Anna Gordy, Gaye was ordered to forfeit a percentage of his album royalties. Accordingly, Gaye exorcised his frustrations with his next release, a sign of the times confessional in which he unabashedly wears his pain and suffering on his sleeve, right down to the album's cover art. Double 180 gram high quality pressing housed in gatefold sleeve.
Track Listing:
LP1
1. Here, My Dear
2. I Met a Little Girl
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
4. Anger
5. Is That Enough
6. Everybody Needs Love
7. Time To Get It Together
LP2
1. Sparrow
2. Anna's Song
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Instrumental)
4. A Funky Space Reincarnation
5. You Can Leave, But It's Going To Cost You
6. Falling In Love Again
7. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)
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 I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
$34.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - Sealed
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine is the ninth solo studio album by soul legend Marvin Gaye, released in 1968 on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records.
Originally the record was released as In the Groove.
During the recording of what would become Gaye's biggest-selling and signature single of his career, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", there was a lot of arguing going on between Norman Whitfield and Gaye over the sessions of "Grapevine". In the end Whitfield was able to get what he wanted from Gaye, and the duo started a collaboration that lasted into the beginning of 1970.
When the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became one of the biggest hits of 1968, Motown re-released the LP as I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The album and its title track are both considered as Gaye's commercial breakthrough.
Track Listing:
1. You
2. Tear It On Down
3. Chained
4. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
5. At Last (I Found A Love)
6. Some Kind Of Wonderful
7. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
8. Change What You Can
9. It's Love I Need
10. Every Now And Then
11. You're What's Happening (In The World Today)
12. There Goes My Baby
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 I Want You
Marvin Gaye
$19.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - Sealed
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The thirteenth studio album by American soul musician Marvin Gaye, released March 16, 1976, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place throughout 1975 and 1976 at Motown Recording Studios, also known as Hitsville West, and Gaye's personal studio Marvin's Room in Los Angeles, California. The album has often been noted by critics for producer Leon Ware's exotic, low-key production and the erotic, sexual themes in his and Gaye's songwriting. The album's cover artwork adapts neo-mannerist artist Ernie Barnes's famous painting The Sugar Shack (1971). I Want You consisted of Marvin Gaye's first recorded studio material since his highly successful and well-received album Let's Get It On (1973). While it marked a change in musical direction for Gaye, departing from his trademark Motown and doo-wop-influenced sound for funky, light-disco soul, the album maintained and expanded on his previous work's sexual themes. I Want You has earned retrospective recognition from writers and music critics as one of Gaye's most controversial works and influential to such musical styles as disco, quiet storm, R&B, and neo soul.
Track Listing:
1. I Want You
2. Come Live With Me Angel
3. After The Dance (Instrumental)
4. Feel All My Love Inside
5. I Wanna Be Where You Are
6. I Want You (Intro Jam)
7. All The Way Around
8. Since I Had You
9. Soon I'll Be Loving You Again
10. I Want You
11. After The Dance
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 I Want You
Marvin Gaye
$13.99
Vinyl LP Reissue - Sealed
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The thirteenth studio album by American soul musician Marvin Gaye, released March 16, 1976, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place throughout 1975 and 1976 at Motown Recording Studios, also known as Hitsville West, and Gaye's personal studio Marvin's Room in Los Angeles, California. The album has often been noted by critics for producer Leon Ware's exotic, low-key production and the erotic, sexual themes in his and Gaye's songwriting. The album's cover artwork adapts neo-mannerist artist Ernie Barnes's famous painting The Sugar Shack (1971).
I Want You consisted of Marvin Gaye's first recorded studio material since his highly successful and well-received album Let's Get It On (1973). While it marked a change in musical direction for Gaye, departing from his trademark Motown and doo-wop-influenced sound for funky, light-disco soul, the album maintained and expanded on his previous work's sexual themes. I Want You has earned retrospective recognition from writers and music critics as one of Gaye's most controversial works and influential to such musical styles as disco, quiet storm, R&B, and neo soul.
Track Listing:
1 I Want You - (vocal)
2 Come Live With Me Angel
3 After The Dance - (instrumental)
4 Feel All My Love Inside
5 I Want You (intro jam)
6 All the Way Around
7 Since I Had You
8 Soon I'll Be Loving You Again
9 After The Dance - (vocal)
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 I Want You
Marvin Gaye
$14.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP -Sealed
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The thirteenth studio album by American soul musician Marvin Gaye, released March 16, 1976, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place throughout 1975 and 1976 at Motown Recording Studios, also known as Hitsville West, and Gaye's personal studio Marvin's Room in Los Angeles, California. The album has often been noted by critics for producer Leon Ware's exotic, low-key production and the erotic, sexual themes in his and Gaye's songwriting. The album's cover artwork adapts neo-mannerist artist Ernie Barnes's famous painting The Sugar Shack (1971).
I Want You consisted of Marvin Gaye's first recorded studio material since his highly successful and well-received album Let's Get It On (1973). While it marked a change in musical direction for Gaye, departing from his trademark Motown and doo-wop-influenced sound for funky, light-disco soul, the album maintained and expanded on his previous work's sexual themes. I Want You has earned retrospective recognition from writers and music critics as one of Gaye's most controversial works and influential to such musical styles as disco, quiet storm, R&B, and neo soul.
Track Listing:
1 I Want You - (vocal)
2 Come Live With Me Angel
3 After The Dance - (instrumental)
4 Feel All My Love Inside
5 I Want You (intro jam)
6 All the Way Around
7 Since I Had You
8 Soon I'll Be Loving You Again
9 After The Dance - (vocal)
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 Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
$13.99
Vinyl LP Reissue - Sealed
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Ranked 165/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
"I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky." - Marvin Gaye
Lets Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gayes tenure with Motown.
The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single Let's Get It On was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Lets Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, Lets Get It On, Come Get To This and You Sure Love To Ball.
Track Listing:
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin' It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied
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 Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
$14.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP -Sealed
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Ranked 165/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
"I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky." - Marvin Gaye
Lets Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gayes tenure with Motown.
The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single Let's Get It On was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Lets Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, Lets Get It On, Come Get To This and You Sure Love To Ball.
Track Listing:
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin' It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied
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 Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
$29.99
Grain 2 Ultra Analog 180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - Sealed
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Ranked 165/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
"I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky."
- Marvin Gaye
Lets Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gayes tenure with Motown.
The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single Let's Get It On was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Lets Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, Lets Get It On, Come Get To This and You Sure Love To Ball.
Track Listing:
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Gettin' It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied
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 Marvin Gaye Live
Marvin Gaye
$26.99
Vinyl LP Picture Disc - Sealed
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A beautiful 12” picture vinyl of live performances by one of the most captivating performers and
R&B legend, Marvin Gaye, that includes stunning renditions of “Let’s Get It On,” “What’s Going On,”
“Sexual Healing,” “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” and many more!
Track Listing:
Side A
1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. Come Get To This
3. Let’s Get It On
4. What’s Going On
5. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Side B
1. Medley: Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing / Your Precious
Love / Love Twins / If This World Were Mine / If I Could Build
My Whole World Around You
2. Rockin’ After Midnight
3. Sexual Healing
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 Midnight Love (Pre-Order)
Marvin Gaye
$34.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - Sealed
PRE-ORDER
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Midnight Love was Marvin Gaye’s final album, conceived in 1982 after a long recluse in Oostende, Belgium. Harmonious, sensual, uplifting and funky, Midnight Love became his swansong after Gaye went through a rough time, secluded from the mainstream and finding out where he belonged. We can safely say, it would be in the studio. He wrote every song on Midnight Love himself, which culminated in the smash hit “Sexual Healing”.
A creative genius and trained multi-instrumentalist, Gaye played every instrument on the song himself, except for the guitar. We can only guess what gems Gaye would have produced in his later years, as his life was taken by his own father just 18 months later.
Track Listing:
1. Midnight Lady
2. Sexual Healing
3. Rockin’ After Midnight
4. ‘Til Tomorrow
5. Turn On Some Music
6. Third World Girl
7. Joy
8. My Love Is Waiting
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 Motown Remixed Volume 3: Chill
Various Artists
$9.99
Vinyl LP - Sealed
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Track Listing:
Side One
Temptations, The - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (Solefull Mix)
Side Two
1 Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (Da Producers MPG Groove Mix)
2 Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm (Groove Boutique Chill Jazz Mix)
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 Trouble Man
Marvin Gaye
$13.99
Vinyl LP Reissue - Sealed
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A soundtrack album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released December 8, 1972 on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. As the soundtrack to the 1972 blaxploitation film of the same name, the Trouble Man soundtrack was a more contemporary move for Gaye, following his landmark politically charged album What's Going On.
Track Listing:
1. Main Theme from Trouble Man (2)
2. T Plays It Cool
3. Poor Abbey Walsh
4. Break In (Police Shoot Big)
5. Cleo's Apartment
6. Trouble Man
7. Theme from Trouble Man
8. T Stands for Trouble
9. Main Theme from Trouble Man (1)
10. Life Is a Gamble
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 Trouble Man
Marvin Gaye
$14.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP -Sealed
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A soundtrack album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released December 8, 1972 on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. As the soundtrack to the 1972 blaxploitation film of the same name, the Trouble Man soundtrack was a more contemporary move for Gaye, following his landmark politically charged album What's Going On.
Track Listing:
1. Main Theme from Trouble Man (2)
2. T Plays It Cool
3. Poor Abbey Walsh
4. Break In (Police Shoot Big)
5. Cleo's Apartment
6. Trouble Man
7. Theme from Trouble Man
8. T Stands for Trouble
9. Main Theme from Trouble Man (1)
10. Life Is a Gamble
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 Ultimate Breaks & Beats: Instrumentals Vol 2 (Out of Stock)
Various Artists
$19.99
Vinyl LP - 2 LPs Sealed
Temporarily out of stock
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The Ultimate Breaks & Beats series is a 25-volume collection of songs that serve as the back bone to the world of sampled music. Consisting of music released during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, this series has been done and redone; released and re-released. Available in 7” format, 12” EP, CD, and even mp3, the UBB series has also served as the muse for compilations that followed including the Strictly Breaks series. Those most notorious for sampling these originals include a who’s who of Rap’s best such as DJ Premier, Large Professor, The Bomb Squad, Pete Rock, Dr. Dre, and Marley Marl. Up until now, these songs were never available as instrumental only and producers have been forced to work around the grunts, screams, and crooning of these classics to isolate that perfect drum beat, breakdown, or sample. Until now. We are proud to present to you the Mr. Chop produced Ultimate Breaks & Beats Instrumentals Volume 2. That’s right, after the success of Volume One we are back with another amazing collection of instrumentals. As an added bonus, three UBB influenced break interludes are included. It’s a new day for fans of the break beat, and what a better day it is. Producers, start your MPC’s as we give to you Instrumentals - the breaks, the whole breaks, and nothing but the breaks.
Track Listing:
1. Joe Tex - 'Papa Was Too' (1966)
2. James Brown - 'Give Up, Or Turn It Loose' (1969)
3. Dyke & The Blazers - 'Let A Woman Be A Woman And A Man Be A Man' (1969)
4. Lightnin' Rod - 'Sport' (1973)
5. Joe Quarterman - 'I'm Gonna Get You' (1974)
6. Break Interlude # 1
7. Sly Johnson - 'Different Strokes' (1967)
8. The Meters - 'Handclapping Song' (1970)
9. Marva Whitney - 'It's My Thing' (1969)
10. Break Interlude # 2
11. Marvin Gaye (Trouble Man Soundtrack) - ''T' Plays It Cool' (1972)
12. Freddie Scott - '(You) Got What I Need' (1968)
13. The Black Byrds - 'Rock Creek Park' (1975)
14. Break Outro
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 United (Speakers Corner)
Marvin Gaye
$34.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - Sealed
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Marvin Gaye, who in the pioneering days of the Motown recording company had already lent his voice to the »Sound of Young America«, teamed up with another vocalist from the brand-new Motown roster in several of his productions. After "Take Two" with Kim Weston in 1966, Gaye and the newcomer Tammi Terrell proved to be a further powerful duo, and they would have surely made more than just three records together had Terrell not died tragically at the age of only 24.
On the album "United" the photogenic duo offer three hits with "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough", "If I Could Build My World Around You" and "Your Precious Love", which catapulted the album towards the top of the pop charts. And that’s exactly where it belongs, since the tremendously popular but schmaltzy duet "Somethin’ Stupid" crept into the line-up of the otherwise groovy soul numbers. But no matter! This evergreen from the 60s is just as popular nowadays as it was then, whether performed by Frank Sinatra or Robbie Williams.
Musicians:
- Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell (vocal)
Production: H. Fuqua and J. Bristol
About Speakers Corner
At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Speakers Corner all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.
During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existant tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.
A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.
We should like to emphasise that Speakers Corner Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We have one digital recording in our catalogue (Alan Parsons / Eye In The Sky“), but even in this particular case we used the analogue tapes for cutting.
We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.
To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects – excluding the exception above – and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.
Track Listing:
1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
2. You Got What It Takes
3. If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
4. Somethin' Stupid
5. Your Precious Love
6. Hold Me Oh My Darling
7. Two Can Have A Party
8. Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl
9. If This World Were Mine
10. Sad Wedding
11. Give A Little Love
12. Oh How I'd Miss You
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 What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
$14.99
180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP -Sealed
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Ranked 6/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Marvin Gayes Whats Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out and, in 2003, it was ranked number 6, the highest for a non-rock album, in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. What's Going On became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.
What's Going On, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.
Track Listing:
What's Going On
What's Happening Brother
Flyin' High
Save the Children
God is Love
Mercy Mercy Me
Right On
Wholy Holy
Inner City Blues
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 What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
$13.99
Colored Vinyl LP Reissue - Sealed
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Ranked 6/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Marvin Gayes Whats Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. What's Going On became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.
What's Going On, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.
Track Listing:
What's Going On
What's Happening Brother
Flyin' High
Save the Children
God is Love
Mercy Mercy Me
Right On
Wholy Holy
Inner City Blues
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 What's Going On (Box Set)
Marvin Gaye
$59.99
Vinyl LP + 2 CDs - Sealed
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Ranked 6/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
This 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition includes on two CDs a remastered version of the album plus 28 bonus tracks - 16 unreleased! - plus a vinyl LP.
Leading off this lovingly produced, double-gatefold 12×12 package is a newly remastered version of the original album, which delivers a deeper, warmer sound than in previous reissues. Added to the album on Disc 1 are several outtakes from sessions that led up to the recording of the LPthe original mix of the title song Marvin presented to Motowns legendary Quality Control meeting, where it was summarily rejected; and song demos which show Marvin wrestling with the rejectionas well as the albums three mono single releases, each of which reached No. 1 R&B and Top 10 pop: Whats Going On (in a very different mix than the LP), Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) and Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), plus their B-sides, of which two are alternate takes from the familiar LP versions.
Disc 2 of Whats Going On Ultimate Collector's Edition is a document of the albums aftermath, when Marvin Gaye, reluctant to tour and shy about becoming the spokesman of his generation, holed up in Motowns Studio B in Detroit with like-minded musiciansamong them the young guitarists Ray Parker Jr. and Wah Wah Watson, and the 20-year-old bassist Michael Henderson, fresh from a Miles Davis tourand simply jammed over several days. These tracks, mostly instrumental, are as brooding and funky as the Whats Going On album cover. The rest of the disc includes Gayes final sessions in Detroit; among the few tunes he recorded was a sequel of sorts to the album, the politically tinged non-LP single Youre The Man, which hit the R&B top 10 in spring 1972. Also included are two rare alternate takes of the song.
Capping this special release is the first ever 12-inch vinyl LP of the Detroit Mix of Whats Going On, the original, darker mix of the entire album, left behind when Gaye decided to finish the overdubs in Los Angeles.
Inside is an LP-sized booklet with rare photos from the sessions, the original lyrics, detailed recording annotations and two essays: one by Gaye biographer David Ritz describing the Why Marvin Gaye created his first-ever self-produced album, and another detailing the How by Ben Edmonds, author of Whats Going On: Marvin Gaye and The Last Days Of The Motown Sound.
A meditative act of artistic rebellion, What's Going On broke the Motown mold. The album introduced Marvin Gaye, the company's sexy prince, as an uncompromising singer, songwriter and producer, and from the first day of release it was recognized as a masterwork. This 40th Anniversary edition includes on two CDs a remastered version of the ablum; the original mono hit singles; the original, rejected, "no strings" single mix of the title track; several post-album outtakes; his single sequel, "You're The Man"; a series of recordings, mostly instrumental, made in Detroit before Marvin followed Motown to Los Angeles. The Motor City theme of this edition continues on the included 12-inch: The LP's rare, original "Detroit Mix," on vinyl for the very first time!
Features:
40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
2CDs + Vinyl LP
Double Gatefold that houses LP on one side and the 2CDs in the other panel
Original Album Artwork
Remastered From Original Analog Source
Mastered at Universal Mastering Studios-East
Cut at Sterling Sound, NYC
Pressed at United Records, Nashville, TN
28 CD bonus tracks
Original mono versions of the LP's hit singles
A previously unreleased original "Quality Control test mix" of What's Going On, mixed before Marvin had added strings, horns and additional vocals
Several pre-album outtakes, recorded while Marvin was 'on strike', waiting for his single to be released, including "Head Title", now in unedited form for the first time
Several post-album instrumental jams with local musicians who included Ray Parker, Jr. - a series of recordings made in Detroit before Marvin followed Motown to Los Angeles
The original single version of a sequel to the album, "You're The Man", as well as two alternative versions
Track Listing:
Vinyl LP:
What's Going On: The Original 'Detroit Mix' (April 5, 1971)
Side A:
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
4. Save The Children
5. God Is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Side B:
1. Right On
2. Wholy Holy
3. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
CD One:
What's Going On: Original Album Remastered
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
4. Save The Children
5. God Is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Bonus Tracks:
10. What's Going On (unreleased original single mix)
11. Head Title - a.k.a. Distant Lover (demo version, original master)
12. Symphony (demo version)
13. I Love The Ground You Walk On (instrumental)
14. What's Going On (mono single version)
15. God Is Love (mono single version)
16. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (mono single version)
17. Sad Tomorrows (mono single version)
18. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (mono single version)
19. Wholy Holy (mono single version)
CD 2:
The Detroit Instrumental Sessions and More
1. Checking Out (Double Clutch)
2. Chained
3. Country Stud
4. Help The People
5. Running From Love (instrumental - version 1)
6. Daybreak
7. Doing My Thing
8. "T" Stands For Time
9. Jesus Is Our Love Song
10. Funky Nation
11. Infinity
12. Mandonta
13. Struttin' The Blues
14. Running From Love (version 2 with strings)
15. I'm Going Home (Move)
16. You're The Man (parts 1 & 2, orignal mono single version)
17. You're The Man (alternate version 1)
18. You're The Man (alternate version 2)
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 What's Going On (Out Of Stock)
Marvin Gaye
$29.99
Gain 2 Ultra Analog 180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - Sealed
Temporarily out of stock
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Ranked 6/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has obtained the master tapes of this landmark album and for the first time Whats Going On will be released on 180 gram ultra analog LP.
As with all Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab releases, meticulous attention to detail is paid during the transfer process.
Marvin Gayes Whats Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out and, in 2003, it was ranked number 6, the highest for a non-rock album, in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. What's Going On became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.
What's Going On, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.
Track Listing:
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
4. Save The Children
5. God Is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and performer who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s.
Beginning his career at Motown in 1960, Gaye quickly became Motown's top solo male artist and scored numerous hits during the 1960s, among them "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and several hit duets with Tammi Terrell, including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "You're All I Need to Get By", before moving on to his own form of musical self-expression.
Gaye is notable for fighting the hit-making, but creatively restrictive, Motown record-making process, in which performers and songwriters and record producers were generally kept in separate camps. With his successful 1971 album What's Going On and subsequent releases including Trouble Man and Let's Get It On, Gaye, who had been a part-time songwriter for Motown artists during his early years with the label, proved that he could write and produce his own singles without having to rely on the Motown system. This achievement (along with those of contemporaries, Curtis Mayfield and George Clinton), would pave the way for the successes of later self-sufficient singer-songwriter-producers in African American music, such as Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, and Babyface.
During the 1970s, Gaye would release several other notable albums, including Let's Get It On and I Want You, and had hits with singles such as "Let's Get It On", "Got to Give It Up", and, in the early 1980s, "Sexual Healing". By the time of his death in 1984 at the hands of his clergyman father, Gaye had become one of the most influential artists of the soul music era.
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