Moods of Marvin Gaye

Moods of Marvin Gaye
Studio album by Marvin Gaye
Released	May 23, 1966
Recorded	1965-1966, Hitsville USA, Detroit, Michigan
Genre	Soul
Length	35:49
Label	Tamla TS-266
Producer	Smokey Robinson Holland-Dozier-Holland Clarence Paul
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Moods of Marvin Gaye is a 1966 album recorded by Marvin Gaye for the Tamla (Motown) label.

The album's plan was to establish the singer as a strong albums-oriented artist, as well as a hit maker, although Gaye was still uncomfortable with performing strictly R&B. He had begun work on a standards album around this time after meeting musician Bobby Scott. However, sessions were unsuccessful and it would only be later in Marvin's career in which Marvin successfully completed a standards album though it'll later be released after his death. For the time being, Gaye was winning more fans, and had become a crossover teen idol. Six of the Mood of... album's songs 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.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I'll Be Doggone" (Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin) 2:45
2. "Little Darling (I Need You)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) 2:33
3. "Take This Heart of Mine" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Robinson, Tarplin) 2:47
4. "Hey Diddle Diddle" (Johnny Bristol. Harvey Fuqua, Gaye) 2:28
5. "One More Heartache" (Moore, Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Tarplin) 2:39
6. "Ain't That Peculiar" (Moore, Robinson, Rogers, Tarplin) 3:00

Side two

1. "Night Life" (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Willie Nelson) 3:03
2. "You've Been a Long Time Coming" (Dozier, Holland, Holland) 2:11
3. "Your Unchanging Love" (Dozier, Holland, Holland) 3:11
4. "You're the One For Me" (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder) 3:23
5. "I Worry 'Bout You" (Norman Mapp) 3:21
6. "One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) 4:28

Credits

• Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
• Background vocals by Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Andantes and The Miracles
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers