Moods of Marvin Gaye

Moods of Marvin Gaye
Studio album by Marvin Gaye
Released	May 23, 1966
Recorded	1965-66 Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Genre	Soul
Length	36:12
Label	Tamla TS-266
Producer	Smokey Robinson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Clarence Paul
Marvin Gaye chronology
A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1966) Moods of Marvin Gaye (1966) Take Two (with Kim Weston) (1966)

Moods of Marvin Gaye is a 1966 album by Marvin Gaye released on the Tamla 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. As a matter of fact, Gaye would successfully complete a standards album only in his later years, an album which would be released after his death. 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

Side one

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" (Warren "Pete" 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) - 2:42
6. "Ain't That Peculiar" (Moore, Robinson, Rogers, Tarplin) - 3:00

Side two

1. "Night Life" (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Willie Nelson) - 3:05
2. "You've Been a Long Time Coming" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) - 2:13
3. "Your Unchanging Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) - 3:13
4. "You're the One For Me" (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder) - 3:24
5. "I Worry 'Bout You" (Norman Mapp) - 3:24
6. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:30

Credits

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