SONG OF THE DAY

“I’ll Be Doggone” by Marvin Gaye (Moods of Marvin Gaye, Tamla Records, 1965). Written by William “Smokey” Robinson, Warren Moore & Marvin Tarplin.

MY MARVIN GAYE PLAYLIST

1. “Funky Space Reincarnation” (Here, My Dear, 1978)
2. “I Want You (Vocal Version)” (I Want You, 1976)
3. “Got To Give It Up, Part 1” (Live At The London Palladium, 1977)
4. “You Are My Everything” with Diana Ross (Diana & Marvin, 1973)
5. “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” with Tammi Terrell (You’re All I Need, 1968)
6. “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You” with Tammi Terrell (United: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, 1967)
7. “You’re All I Need To Get By” with Tammi Terrell (You’re All I Need, 1968)
8. “Your Precious Love” with Tammi Terrell (United: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, 1967)
9. “Can I Get A Witness” (1963 single)
10. “I’ll Be Doggone” (Moods Of Marvin Gaye, 1966)
11. “One More Heartache” (Moods Of Marvin Gaye, 1966)
12. “Ain’t That Peculiar” (Moods Of Marvin Gaye, 1966)
13. “Yesterday” (That’s the Way Love Is, 1970)
14. “Groovin” (That’s the Way Love Is, 1970)
15. “Abraham, Martin & John (That’s the Way Love Is, 1970)
16. “Trouble Man” (Trouble Man motion picture soundtrack, 1972)
17. “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” (M.P.G., 1969)
18. “What’s Going On” (What’s Going On, 1971)
19. “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” (What’s Going On, 1971)
20. “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” (What’s Going On, 1971)

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– “I’ll Be Doggone” talks about how a man tells his woman that he’ll be “doggone” about simple things but if she did him wrong that he’d be “long gone”.

– It became his first million-selling record and his first #1 single on the R&B chart, staying there for two weeks, and was the first song Gaye recorded with Smokey Robinson as one of the songwriters of the record. The song was co-written by Robinson’s fellow Miracles members Pete Moore and Marv Tarplin.

– “I’ll Be Doggone” gave Marvin his third top-ten pop hit, where it peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, with that number matched by his follow-up record, “Ain’t That Peculiar”.

– 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 Moods of Marvin Gaye‘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.

– Background vocals were performed on the album by Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Andantes and The Miracles, with instrumentation by The Funk Brothers (Motown’s famed studio band).

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