The national anthem will ring around baseball stadiums all over the country this week as the new season begins. Nobody will sing it like Marvin Gaye did at the 1983 NBA All-Star game.
I've always liked progressive music, but Marvin Gaye is the only person I can think of whose earliest music I liked better. As good as What's Going On and Trouble Man and his other later works were, I still liked his mid- '60s Motown hits the best. Stubborn Kind of Fellow, Hitchhike, Can I Get A Witness -- God, those songs just killed.
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ReplyDeleteI've always liked progressive music, but Marvin Gaye is the only person I can think of whose earliest music I liked better. As good as What's Going On and Trouble Man and his other later works were, I still liked his mid- '60s Motown hits the best. Stubborn Kind of Fellow, Hitchhike, Can I Get A Witness -- God, those songs just killed.
Tom - For me his voice and his interpretive powers transcended whatever he was singing.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. I never saw that before, and I'm glad you put it up. Gaye's interpretive talent was distinctive and often spectacular.
ReplyDeleteGaye's singing of the anthem ranks up there with this favorite of mine by another whose interpretive skills are unforgettable.
No one sang like Marvin did.
ReplyDeleteS.W - The late great Ray Charles, what a voice, a lot of people think that "America" should be the national anthem, I'm one of them.
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ. Nobody, and I mean nobody, will sing it like Roseanne Barr once did.
ReplyDeleteWhen you said 'sings' rather than the past tense I thought 'bloody hell! Their healthcare is miraculous!'...;-)
ReplyDeleteRandal - It was indeed a unique rendering. I like the bit where she grabbed her crotch and spit.
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