Marvin gaye christmas album

He always laughed about that. The song is finished, man. Personally, I just wanted to do something a little more to help get our guys home in time for Christmas. Let me think a minute. He glared at me silently for a few seconds. But then, Marvin Gaye loved to laugh.

Marvin could take a vague musical idea scribbled on notebook paper into the studio and come out with a song that would last forever. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "Christmas In The City" on Discogs.

Eighteen years after its recording and six years after Gaye's untimely death, the song was reissued on The Marvin Gaye. Please, just give me what you got. All the world should have listened to Marvin Gaye. I smiled as my fingers hit the keys on my new electric Rhodes piano with a little four bar introduction.

Yet still throughout the year, I often listen to a beautiful song that I wrote in It was a time when everyone across America and where I lived in Hollywood, California, was wearing a yellow ribbon in honor of our Vietnam prisoners of war.

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The tall, suave, good-looking fellow born in Washington, D. Quite obviously, for personal reasons, I always deeply think about Marvin around our Christmas holidays. [2] Gaye struggled with Motown for the song to be released as a single in tribute of Vietnam troops.

Yet, there was a melancholy ache inside that he could only explain with words and music. I was sitting at my keyboard kicking the song around and still working on the chords, when Marvin just happened to drop by. And the world can become a lonely place for those who dare to touch upon greatness.

But check it out for a second. It is now included on one of the finest Christmas collections extantThe Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection [reviewed elsewhere in this issue] Herewith a personal account by Hairston of how the song came to be, what Marvin did with it, and its bittersweet aftermath.

At that, I went into the words and pulled out the soulful feeling. I mean hold it!

Christmas with Marvin Gaye : Gaye infused traditional Christmas songs with his signature sound, seamlessly merging soulful melodies with heartfelt lyrics

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want To Come Home For Christmas” this year!. Just a piano tape with the words and melody.

I mean, a Christmas song about our guys over there in that Vietnam War! The song was to be part of a Christmas-themed album by Gaye, was issued the Tamla number TL and scheduled for release in late But the album was never released.

No studio demo or nothing yet, baby brother. Nothing sounds quite like Christmas than hearing Ne-Yo cover "I Want To Come Home For Christmas"! When his life passed down through the years from the Moonglows to his last breath, I wonder if Marvin Gaye ever knew that he was a musical genius.