Marvin Gaye What's Going On 40th NEW LP+2CD Detroit Mix

$

90

Format: VINYL

Artist: MARVIN GAYE

Title: WHAT'S GOING ON 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (EU made)

Genre: POP/SOUL

UPC/Barcode: 602527682273

In celebration of the 40th anniversary, Motown/UMe proudly announces the release of What's Going On - Super Deluxe Edition.

This new Super Deluxe Edition includes two CDs and one vinyl LP, 14 unreleased tracks, copious rarities, all complemented by an oversized booklet with two essays and rare photos from the original cover shoot. Inside as well is a reproduction of the album graphics, which showcased, for the first time at Motown, the song's lyrics-and identified the musicians.

Leading off this lovingly produced, double-gatefold 12x12 package is a newly remastered version of the original album, which delivers a deeper, warmer sound than in previous reissues. Added to the album on Disc 1 are several outtakes from sessions that led up to the recording of the LP-the original mix of the title song Marvin presented to Motown's legendary Quality Control meeting, where it was summarily rejected; and song demos which show Marvin wrestling with the rejection-as well as the album's three mono single releases, each of which reached No. 1 R&B and Top 10 pop: "What's Going On" (in a very different mix than the LP), "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" and "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)," plus their B-sides, of which two are alternate takes from the familiar LP versions.

Disc 2 of What's Going On - Super Deluxe Edition is a document of the album's aftermath, when Marvin Gaye, reluctant to tour and shy about becoming the "spokesman of his generation," holed up in Motown's Studio B in Detroit with like-minded musicians-among them the young guitarists Ray Parker Jr. and Wah Wah Watson, and the 20-year-old bassist Michael Henderson, fresh from a Miles Davis tour-and simply jammed over several days. These tracks, mostly instrumental, are as brooding and funky as the What's Going On album cover. The rest of the disc includes Gaye's final sessions in Detroit; among the few tunes he recorded was a sequel of sorts to the album, the politically tinged non-LP single "You're The Man," which hit the R&B top 10 in spring 1972. Also included are two rare alternate takes of the song.
Capping this special release is the first ever 12-inch vinyl LP of the "Detroit Mix" of What's Going On, the original, darker mix of the entire album, left behind when Gaye decided to finish the overdubs in Los Angeles.

Inside is an LP-sized booklet with rare photos from the sessions, the original lyrics, detailed recording annotations and two essays: one by Gaye biographer David Ritz describing the "Why" Marvin Gaye created his first-ever self-produced album, and another detailing the "How" by Ben Edmonds, author of What's Going On: Marvin Gaye and The Last Days Of The Motown Sound.

CD
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (in the Friendly Sky)
4. Save the Children
5. God is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
10. What's Going On (Original Rejected Single Mix)
11. Head Title (Distant Lover) (Demo)
12. Symphony (Demo)
13. I Love the Ground You Walk On (Instrumental)
14. What's Going On (Mono Single Version)
15. God is Love (Mono Single Version)
16. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (Mono Single Version)
17. Sad Tomorrows (Mono Single Version)
18. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Mono Single Version)
19. Wholly Holy (Mono Single Version)

CD
1. Checking Out (Double Clutch)
2. Chained
3. Country Stud
4. Help the People
5. Running from Love (Version 1)
6. Daybreak
7. Doing My Thing
8. T Stands for Time
9. Jesus is Our Love Song
10. Funky Nation
11. Infinity
12. Mandota (Instrumental)
13. Struttin' the Blues
14. Running from Love (Version 2 with Strings)
15. I'm Going Home (Move)
16. You're the Man (Parts I & II)
17. You're the Man (Alternate Version 1)
18. You're the Man (Alternate Version 2)

LP: Original Detroit Mix (April 5, 1971)
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (in the Friendly Sky)
4. Save the Children
5. God is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholly Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)