MARVIN GAYE: IN THE GROOVE Original 1968 TAMLA LP (TS 285) Stereo DEEP GROOVE
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Description
Original 1968 TAMLA pressing of the MARVIN GAYE album, IN THE GROOVE (TS 285 STEREO)
This is the original 1968 version of the album that was later reissued as "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" in 1969.
Deep Groove Pressing- see photo
AMG 3 STARS: Never overly reliant on the Holland-Dozier-Holland machine, Marvin Gaye weathered their departure pretty well, turning to Norman Whitfield (for the epochal "I Heard It Through the Grapevine") as well as Ivory Joe Hunter, Ashford & Simpson, Frank Wilson, and, for two songs, his own pen. One of Gaye's other R&B hits from In the Groove, the impassioned "You," is in the Four Tops style (it's patterned after "Reach Out"), while "Chained" is another brilliant performance and production of a sub-standard tune. The Brill Building standard "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "There Goes My Baby" were early-'60s throwbacks in sound and feel, quite a jarring effect in context. After "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became one of the biggest hits of 1968, Motown re-released the LP as I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
see photo for track list
Condition: the sleeve grades EX. The record grades NM. Original inner sleeve included; the record ships in an anti-static, dust free, archival sleeve. Check out my feedback score; you won't be disappointed.
