Marvin Gaye What's Going On CD

This deluxe edition of WHAT'S GOING ON includes a 20-page booklet with

complete lyrics, never-before-published photos from personal family collections and an essay by David Ritz.

Recorded live at The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. on May 1, 1972.

Originally released in 1971, WHAT'S GOING ON remains a landmark album, one that redefined music with powerful, anthemic songs that remain pertinent to this day. Before WHAT'S GOING ON, R&B albums were collections of singles, with secondary "filler" material rounding out the LPs. Marvin Gaye changed all this by releasing a concept album that went beyond the usual boy-meets-girl scenario, weaving together an aural collage of societal ills. "Cr

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Additional Tracks

Recorded at Hitsville, Golden World and United Sound Studios, Detroit, Michican. Originally released on Tamla (310).

Recorded at Hitsville, Golden World and United Sound Studios, Detroit, Michican. Originally released on Tamla (310). Includes liner notes by Smokey Robinson, Ben Edmonds and Harry Weinger.

Personnel includes: Marvin Gaye (vocals, piano); David Van Depitte (arranger, conductor); Robert White, Joe Messina (guitar); Johnny Griffith (celeste, keyboards); Earl Van Dyke (keyboards); Eli Fountain (alto saxophone); Wild Bill Moore (tenor saxophone); Jack Brokensha (vibraphone, percussion); Bob Babbit, James Jamerson (bass); Chet Forest (drums); Eddie Brown, Earl DeRouen (bongos, conga); Jack Ashford (tambourine, percussion).

WHAT'S GOING ON: DELUXE EDITION features the original album, plus an unreleased Detroit mix, a live version from Kennedy Center, and unreleased single versions and instrumentals.

WHAT'S GOING ON:

LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER:

Personnel includes: Marvin Gaye (vocals, piano); Robert White (guitar); Jack Ashford (glockenspiel, percussion, kazoo); Uriel Jones (drums); Eddie "Bongo" Brown (bongos); The Andantes, Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Hank Dixon, C.P. Spencer (background vocals).

Personnel: Marvin Gaye (piano, drums, background vocals); Marvin Gaye (vocals, percussion); Robert White , Robert White (guitar); Carole Crosby (harp); Zinovi Bistritzky, Virginia Halfmann, Gordon Staples, Lillian Downs, Beatriz Budinszky, James Waring, Alvin Score, Rick Margitza (violin); Edouard Kesner, Meyer Shapiro, Nathan Gordon (viola); Thaddeus Markiewicz (cello); William Perich (flute); Angelo Carlisi (alto saxophone); George Benson , George Benson , Wild Bill Moore (tenor saxophone); Tate Houston (baritone saxophone); Bob Babbitt, James Jamerson (bass instrument); Max Janowsky (12-string bass); Lem Barney, Elgie Stover, Hank Dixon, Freddie Gorman, Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks, Walter Gaines, Bobby Rogers, Ken Stover, Louvain Demps, The Andantes, C.P. Spencer (background vocals); Joe Messina (guitar); Felix Resnick (violin); David Ireland (viola); Italo Babini (cello); Danya Hartwick (flute); Larry Nozero (soprano saxophone); Eli Fountain (alto saxophone); John Trudell, Maurice Davis (trumpet); Carl Raetz (trombone); Johnny Griffith (celesta, keyboards); Earl Van Dyke (keyboards); Jack Brokensha (vibraphone, percussion); Chet Forest (drums); Eddie Brown, Earl DeRouen (congas, bongos); Jack Ashford (tambourine, percussion).

Audio Mixers: Ken Sands; Larry Miles; Steve Smith .

Liner Note Authors: Marvin Gaye; Ben Edmonds.

Recording information: Golden World (Studio B), Detroit, MI; Hitsville (Studio A), Detroit, MI; Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA; United Sound Studios, Detroit, MI.

Photographer: Jim Hendin.

Arrangers: Paul Riser; David Van De Pitte.Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Revolutionary..."
Rolling Stone (8/5/71, p.44) - "...There are very few performers who could carry a project like this off. I've always admired Marvin Gaye, but I didn't expect that he would be one of them..."
Rolling Stone (9/30/71, p.42) - "...there is no question that he has gotten progressively better...Gaye's multi-tracked lead vocals answer one another like a man talking to himself, finally enveloping the listener in a world view of incalculable intensity..."
Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Revolutionary..."
Rolling Stone (9/30/71, p.42) - "...there is no question that he has gotten progressively better...Gaye's multi-tracked lead vocals answer one another like a man talking to himself, finally enveloping the listener in a world view of incalculable intensity..."
Rolling Stone (8/5/71, p.44) - "...There are very few performers who could carry a project like this off. I've always admired Marvin Gaye, but I didn't expect that he would be one of them..."
Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Revolutionary..."
Spin (p.122) - "The godhead of '70s soul albums plays like one seamless groove-song, with jazzy orchestrations..."
Q (p.120) - "[T]his was the first soul ...