Marvin gaye christmas album

Meanwhile, the 2017 expanded-edition of Merry Christmas includes a version of “Just A Lonely Christmas” with an alternate Diana Ross vocal.

• Motown Christmas features several other tracks first heard on Christmas In The City, including “Wish You A Merry Christmas” by Kim Weston and “Purple Snowflakes” by Marvin Gaye.

  “My Christmas Tree” was one of those it kept.

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“Through these songs, we can spend Christmas with each of you every day of the year. Marvin could take a vague musical idea scribbled on notebook paper into the studio and come out with a song that would last forever.

In the early days after his first smash hit , “I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” Marvin was often called the Motown Prince.

Michael Jackson -Little Christmas Tree
13. Marvin Gaye, the Miracles and Kim Weston did so in 1962, for instance, and Motown’s first holiday album was Christmas With The Miracles, released the following year. But he and I were both extremely sensitive to the Vietnam War, and when I started to cry, he began crying as well. One of the best Motown Christmas songs out there, it’s also one of the more unusual songs from the maestro who gave us “What’s Going On.”

Kim Weston: Wish You A Merry Christmas

Without a figgy pudding in sight, Kim Weston’s Motown gem from 1962 is unrelated to the traditional song “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.” Weston – known for the hit duet “It Takes Two” with Marvin Gaye – recorded her festive classic when she was just 22 and newly signed to Motown.

Gaye’s haunting yet magical song describes how something as simple as watching snow fall can have a life-affirming effect. Temptations -Christmas Song
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8. The front cover featured a photo of the group – minus Pete Moore, who was in military service at the time – in front of a welcoming fireplace, complete with Christmas stockings on the wall.

Marvin Gaye would rather sing soft romantic songs, and he’d rather touch you more deeply beyond what he saw in your face. It’s a staple of R&B radio station Christmas playlists, but it remains a festive classic in need of far greater recognition.

Diana Ross: This Christmas

Pianist and singer Don Hathaway was only 33 when he died.

“Silver Bells,” written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, had been sung by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the past, but The Supremes add their own super Motown groove.

Four Tops: Away In A Manger

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, singer and founding member of Four Tops, created his own lavish arrangements for the group’s 1995 version of the Christmas classic “Away In A Manger.” The song was on the album Christmas Here With You, which featured saxophones, flugelhorn, French horn and copious strings – and some guest vocals from Aretha Franklin.

Marvin Gaye: Purple Snowflakes

Marvin Gaye took his song “Pretty Little Baby” and re-worked it in 1973 into a seasonal song called “Purple Snowflakes,” which has a psychedelic feel.

There was a plan for this to be released as a single in ’72, but nothing came of it.

• In 1970, the Jackson 5 were just about the hottest act in music, accumulating a total of four No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 within twelve months. Let me think a minute. Both make a return appearance on this album. All the world should have listened to Marvin Gaye.

  The following week, the final touches were applied to “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” originally written by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent to honor soldiers serving overseas (“I’ll be home for Christmas/You can count on me/Please have snow and mistletoe/And presents on the tree”). Marvin Gaye -I Want to Come Home for Christmas
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  For their second seasonal album, The Season For Miracles, the group turned to Stevie Wonder for a pair of songs.