Unpacking the Tracks: Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" (part 2)
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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.”
I can't believe this only has 343 views . . . thank yu for this
Yep but some twerking video will have millions. We are in trouble.
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I’m just happy that this is a free video, there’s lots of info in here
That's funny about the colors because I've always pictured this as a dark blue, maybe even a rain storm.
Same, I think part of it has to do with the blue tinted album cover. The whole record does sound like winter, or autumn into winter.
No. That's all Marvin singing falsetto at 1:45. Not female vocalists. Geez!
No female vocalists mr. Drummer of knowledge. 😂
As far as the seasons go, it was winter then all summer.
The single was out for like a year before the album dropped.
So by the time the album dropped… boom!
In black households, the initial energy level lasted a solid 2 years without wavering an inch.
If you wanna know how we felt about it all you have to do is pull up the clip from the “save the children” concert and look at the facial expressions of the audience.
We felt exactly how they looked.
I was a listeners album.
Very Very serious!
Nobody danced to anything on side A.
We all knew how important it was.
That was our Marvin Gaye doing some “global importance” thing.
And we were on board!
It was the end of the civil rights movement.
It put a period on it.
Mother Mother and Father Father connected everybody.
Then the war.
Then the drugs.
Then God.
Then man asking God’s forgiveness for screwing up His world.
For me it was James Jamerson running up and down the neck of that bass with some of the slickest bass playing known to man.
You brought home the album (with great anticipation) and the first song you heard was the song you already knew by heart.
Then it faded and abundantly was interrupted by “what’s happening brother “.
Which started out as an extension of the previous song but way more jazzy.
Jamerson poppin off all this twisted convoluted bass playing under Marvin’s lead.
It was like he was playing his own version of the song.
Like 2 lead singers that let you choose who’s version to listen to.
I can go all day.
Bronx and Harlem sophistication.
Poor and rich loved it the same.
Our national anthem.
At the beginning of a new decade.
The one that came after the amazing 60s.
I always thought the “false fade” that was heard on late 60s/early 70s singles was a producer’s trick for an encore effect. Song slowly fades to quiet, then comes back for a few seconds before totally fading out. Marvin also used it when producing The Originals recording of “Just To Keep You Satisfied”. And Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas has it too.
Sounds like Vibes were combined with Marvin’s piano track on that channel. I think it was a real signature component.⭐️
Marvin was a superb genius a visionary and a angel that had an extreme deep emotional affect on the music industry,but his life was followed by a lot of deep emotional pain as well,all he wanted was sincere LOVE from his father and the disconect between him and his father haunted him most of his life all the way from childhood,most people don’t realize that the Funk Brothers were originally Jazz musicians,when you get Jazz musicians playing R&B you get a whole nother concept,Jazz musician hear the music totally different,they’re approach to the music is with arrangement idealistically somewhat of a big band orchestration,that’s why the Motown Sound was different from any other record company because you had Jazz musicians playing R&B,and Berry Gordy could put out hit after hit after hit,and you get the Detroit sound..
So glad they mentioned Dave Van DePitt. He was & the band were responsible for writing & arranging most of this music, that Marvin came back to once sober … and had no memory of it.
Thank you!
amazing
Awesome