Unpacking the Tracks: Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" (part 1)

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • In this video series, sit at the mixing console with Motown historian Harry Weinger and Questlove of The Roots as they unpack the tracks of Marvin Gaye’s 1971 chart-topping hit, “What’s Going On.”

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  • @sgtbrownty
    @sgtbrownty Рік тому +4

    I could listen to this dissected for the rest of my life ❣️

  • @Cottontowngal
    @Cottontowngal 2 роки тому +3

    Wow. Just wow. More of this please.

  • @frusciantepepper91
    @frusciantepepper91 Рік тому +18

    it's a mix of eeriness and beauty hearing Marvin's piano. He's gone but the emotion he played through the piano is very much still here.

  • @poplifemedia
    @poplifemedia 10 місяців тому

    THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!

  • @hardlines4
    @hardlines4 2 роки тому +1

    Outstanding

  • @ToniOhNo
    @ToniOhNo 8 місяців тому

    3:29 🤯😵‍💫😳

  • @edwarddejong8025
    @edwarddejong8025 2 роки тому +17

    The most organic album ever produced by Motown, and in my top 10 albums of all time

    • @HelloSpyMyLie
      @HelloSpyMyLie 8 місяців тому

      Name something above it please 🙄

    • @edwarddejong8025
      @edwarddejong8025 8 місяців тому +1

      from a musical standpoint, Kind of Blue is a record you can listen to 1000 times. And Yellow Brick Road being a double album has a lot more variety on it. Ranking masterpieces is not fruitful. Also, Mr. Gaye considered his Trouble Man soundtrack to his greatest achievement; probably because he had never worked in long form before. If you like Marvin Gaye, be sure to watch the Koln orchestra tribute to Curtis Mayfield.@@HelloSpyMyLie

    • @HelloSpyMyLie
      @HelloSpyMyLie 8 місяців тому

      @@edwarddejong8025 I believe there are fruits from truth. I will check that out. But let’s not mistake lower art for higher art

  • @wingchundragon
    @wingchundragon 3 роки тому +7

    Amazing!!!! Love how music comes together...especially done by a genius named Marvin Gaye

  • @fluffytcat3039
    @fluffytcat3039 11 місяців тому +2

    Hmmm.. No mention of the vibraphone? Orchestrated and arranged in with the piano trackS (multiple = Fender Rhodes, Acoustic, AND vibraphone)?

  • @nolanmarshall3212
    @nolanmarshall3212 10 місяців тому +2

    Oh I hate how the audio of this video was recorded

  • @Porsche996driver
    @Porsche996driver 11 місяців тому +3

    Just toured Studio A last week. Just amazing all the history and perfectly preserved. ✨

  • @Nell_3
    @Nell_3 5 днів тому

    Loved this album since I was a child. I know every word and sound of the instruments. It’s a masterpiece from beginning to end. Marvin was so talented but he said God wrote this album. He was just like a vessel. It’s on several of my playlists is heavy rotation. It’s best to download it and just let it flow. It’s simply beautiful. ☮️❤️

  • @sonjaistheone4614
    @sonjaistheone4614 11 місяців тому +2

    I have never associated Marvin Gaye with a piano so when they played only that part of What's Going On, I thought in my mind of Marvin possibly sitting down in front of perhaps Berry Gordy and first playing the piano solo and it brought tears to my eyes! Then Quest Love stating that it made it sound in his opinion even a different song! Simply amazing! Wow 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎶🎵💜😘💙

  • @1jeromeo
    @1jeromeo 4 роки тому +2

    Fascinating!

  • @RyCooder-ri7fz
    @RyCooder-ri7fz 4 місяці тому

    Is that Marino?

  • @charleswilliams8248
    @charleswilliams8248 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely amazing, awesome!

  • @exysness
    @exysness Рік тому +1

    My favourite album of all tymez.

  • @BasementFloods
    @BasementFloods 2 місяці тому

    Really went all in on the analog and even recorded this interview on a misaligned tape machine. Hisssssssssssssssss

  • @ondrey95
    @ondrey95 11 місяців тому

    Someone took down the greatest mix of all time during covid by questlove, all marvin songs. I don't suspect it was this guy

  • @jesseomollo9405
    @jesseomollo9405 Рік тому

    Wow many layers of music in this song.

  • @chriso8193
    @chriso8193 2 роки тому +2

    Why is Quest Love there....he only plays drums, so what can he offer to the chords and progression played.....nothing....shoulda got Stevie Wonder instead.....

    • @skippruitt2391
      @skippruitt2391 Рік тому

      Should have gotten one of the OGs that was around. Paul Riser the motown string arranger is still around.