Moods of Marvin Gaye
Moods of Marvin Gaye | ||||
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Studio album by Marvin Gaye | ||||
Released | May 23, 1966 | |||
Recorded | Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 36:12 | |||
Label | Tamla | |||
Producer | Smokey Robinson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Clarence Paul | |||
Marvin Gaye chronology | ||||
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Singles from Moods of Marvin Gaye | ||||
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Moods of Marvin Gaye is the seventh studio album by Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla label in 1966.
The album was the result of a plan to establish Gaye as a strong album-oriented artist as well as a hit maker. Gaye was still uncomfortable with performing strictly R&B and had begun work on a standards album around this time after meeting musician Bobby Scott. However, the sessions were unsuccessful and he would successfully complete a standards album only in his later years (released posthumously as Vulnerable in 1997). For the time being, Gaye was winning more fans and had become a crossover teen idol. Six songs from Moods of Marvin Gaye were released as singles: impressively, all reached the Top 40 on the R&B singles chart and four of them reached the Top 40 on the Pop Singles Chart, a rare feat for a solo R&B artist even at that time.
Gaye also scored his first two #1 R&B singles, "I'll Be Doggone" and "Ain't That Peculiar", both co-written by Gaye's friend, Berry Gordy's right-hand man Smokey Robinson.
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Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I'll Be Doggone" | Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin | 2:47 |
2. | "Little Darling (I Need You)" | Holland–Dozier–Holland | 2:35 |
3. | "Take This Heart of Mine" | Moore, Robinson, Tarplin | 2:49 |
4. | "Hey Diddle Diddle" | Johnny Bristol, Harvey Fuqua, Gaye | 2:30 |
5. | "One More Heartache" | Moore, Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Tarplin, Ronald White | 2:42 |
6. | "Ain't That Peculiar" | Moore, Robinson, Rogers, Tarplin | 3:00 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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7. | "Night Life" | Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Willie Nelson | 3:05 |
8. | "You've Been a Long Time Coming" | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 2:13 |
9. | "Your Unchanging Love" | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 3:13 |
10. | "You're the One For Me" | Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder | 3:24 |
11. | "I Worry 'Bout You" | Norman Mapp | 3:24 |
12. | "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" | Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer | 4:30 |
Personnel
- Marvin Gaye - lead vocals
- The Andantes - backing vocals (all of side 1; side 2, tracks 8-10)
- The Miracles - additional backing vocals (on "I'll Be Doggone")
- The Spinners - backing vocals (on "Hey Diddle Diddle")
- Marv Tarplin - guitar (side 1, tracks 1, 3, 5 and 6)
- The Funk Brothers - instrumentation
References
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r8071
- v
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- The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye (1961)
- That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962)
- When I'm Alone I Cry (1964)
- Hello Broadway (1964)
- How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You (1965)
- A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965)
- Moods of Marvin Gaye (1966)
- In the Groove (1968)
- M.P.G. (1969)
- That's the Way Love Is (1970)
- What's Going On (1971)
- Trouble Man (1972)
- Let's Get It On (1973)
- I Want You (1976)
- Here, My Dear (1978)
- In Our Lifetime (1981)
- Midnight Love (1982)
- Dream of a Lifetime (1985)
- Romantically Yours (1985)
- Vulnerable (1997)
- You're the Man (2019)
- Together (with Mary Wells, 1964)
- Take Two (with Kim Weston, 1966)
- United (with Tammi Terrell, 1967)
- You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell, 1968)
- Easy (with Tammi Terrell, 1969)
- Diana & Marvin (with Diana Ross, 1973)
- Greatest Hits (1964)
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1967)
- Marvin Gaye and His Girls (1969)
- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits (1970)
- Super Hits (1970)
- Anthology (1974)
- Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits (1976)
- Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters (1986)
- The Marvin Gaye Collection (1990)
- The Norman Whitfield Sessions (1994)
- Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased (1994)
- The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (1994)
- The Master (1961–1984) (1995)
- Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs (2000)
- The Complete Duets (2001)
- The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (2001)
- Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage (1963)
- Marvin Gaye Live! (1974)
- Live at the London Palladium (1977)
- Marvin Gaye at the Copa (2005)
- What's Going On Live (2019)
- The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981) (2006)
ten singles
- "Pride and Joy"
- "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
- "I'll Be Doggone"
- "Ain't That Peculiar"
- "Your Precious Love"
- "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"
- "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
- "You're All I Need to Get By"
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
- "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
- "That's the Way Love Is"
- "Abraham, Martin and John"
- "The Onion Song"
- "What's Going On"
- "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
- "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
- "Trouble Man"
- "Let's Get It On"
- "You Are Everything"
- "Got to Give It Up"
- "Sexual Healing"
- Marvin Gay Sr. (father)
- Alberta Gay (mother)
- Anna Gordy Gaye (first wife)
- Denise Gordy (son's birth mother)
- Nona Gaye (daughter)
- Frankie Gaye (brother)
- Gordon Banks (brother-in-law)
topics
- Discography
- Songs
- Albums
- Songs by Marvin Gaye
- Albums produced by Marvin Gaye
- Songs produced by Marvin Gaye
- Personal life
- Death
- Tributes
- Songs in memory
- The Marquees
- Harvey Fuqua
- Tammi Terrell
- Leon Ware
- Marvin's Room
- Marvin Is 60: A Tribute Album
- Divided Soul
- Sexual Healing Tour
- Category