Marvin gaye christmas album
Two original Christmas albums by Motown artists, Stevie Wonder’sSomeday At Christmas and the Jackson 5’sChristmas Album, are being made available on vinyl internationally in December.
Two seasonal standards arrive on both albums: “The Little Drummer Boy” and “The Christmas Song.” Another song on both LPs is “Someday At Christmas,” a Motown original first recorded by Wonder, which was also issued as a single in slow 1966.
The Jackson 5 album has “Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year,” an original holiday number written by Motown’s Leon Ware and Pam Sawyer. The group’s album was produced by Hal Davis and the Corporation; Wonder’s album was produced by Hank Cosby.
The content and sequencing of the recent vinyl versions replicates the original releases, with 12 tracks by Wonder and 11 tracks by the Jacksons. The Wonder LP was first issued in November 1967, the Jacksons’ LP in October 1970. Both reached the Billboard Christmas-release charts of the time.
The vinyl albums are creature made available Dec. 15 internationally by Universal Music/Motown and are available to pre-order now from the Classic Motown store here.
Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Desire To Be Residence For Christmas’ Gets An Animated Update For Veteran’s Group
In honor of Veterans Day and America’s veterans and servicemen and servicewomen, Motown/UMe and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) have teamed up to premiere a new animated video for Marvin Gaye’s poignant holiday masterpiece song, “I Crave to Come Residence For Christmas.”
Gaye’s now-anthemic song, which was released posthumously, was written in 1972 – a year after his brother Frankie had returned from military service in Vietnam and struggled to detect employment. Honoring veterans, and giving voice to the life of so many returning service members, Gaye threw himself into writing and recording R&B’s historic seamless concept album, What’s Going On.
Marvin Gaye - I Yearn To Come Place For Christmas (Official Music Video)
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When composer Forest Hairston approached Gaye with the concept of a song supporting America’s prisoners of war, Gaye crafted “I Want to Arrive Home For Christmas.” Told from a soldier’s perspective, the song remains powerfully relevant as an anthem supporting America’s POW/MIA community, as well as the many troops who are away
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‘Marvin could take a vague musical idea scribbled on notebook paper into the studio, and come out with a song that would last forever.’
by Forest Hairston
(Ed. Note: Songwriter Forest Hairston and his friend Marvin Gaye are credited as co-writers of “I Want to Reach Home For Christmas,” a anthem Gaye recorded in 1972 around the time he was active on his Trouble Man album. The song was supposed to be released as a Tamla single that year but was withheld and did not view the light of day until 1990’s four-CD box set, The Marvin Gaye Collection. It is now included on one of the finest Christmas collections extant , The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection [reviewed elsewhere in this issue] Herewith a personal account by Hairston of how the song came to be, what Marvin did with it, and its bittersweet aftermath.)
When his animation passed down through the years from the Moonglows to his last breath, I wonder if Marvin Gaye ever knew that he was a musical genius. I’m sure that people who knew Marvin and worked with him throughout his fantastic career would still look Marvin Gaye straight into his fac
Marvin Gaye made A P.O.W. Christmas song YOU Require to hear
Marvin Gaye made A P.O.W. Christmas song YOU NEED to hear
by Dan-O
You need to follow Questlove of The Roots on all social media platforms. He ranked every Prince album release (including unreleased stuff to that point), and it is because of him that I found out Marvin Gaye had an unreleased album called You’re The Man recorded after What’s Going On that JUST got released in 2019.
Marvin has always been king of the intoxicating vibe so I totally missed how hardcore I Crave To Come Home For Christmas is on the first listen. When he belts out that he wants to see baseball and Santa Claus I registered the desperation in his voice and that the song seemed intense but by the period I did the second listen in the vehicle it was clear how bold this song is.
My favorite song on the album is actually the alternative mix of Where Are We Going. It has never lift the speaker in my brain. The song that has snuck and stuck in my head, had me snapping my fingers singing “Day in, Day out.” while 2 stepping. That is the one I will listen to for the rest of my life regularly BUT…
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