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Newly discovered Marvin Gaye material in Belgium.

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  • Woodbutcher
    Woodbutcher

    Nice to know there are so many moaning Minnies on here still ...  I'd have thought that the prospect of 30 unheard MG tapes with 66 demos of unheard songs on them would have been met with a tad m

  • Geeselad
    Geeselad

    Played through samples of quite a few on channel 4 news. An album's worth of jazz standards, fly me to the moon ect. He sounded in fine voice on the samples, however the material would perhaps be of l

  • Smudger
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    Lawyers bound to get involved so may never hear it in our lifetime, hope we do though.

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I doubt there is anything in those tapes that is really exceptional but will be happy to be proved wrong.  The lawyers are all over it now so hopefully so sort of resolution soon.

Belongs to Marvin's family, bullshit he gifted it to them. Marvin was known to be tight in giving credit/points on records.

Take sexual healing for example, David Ritz sued Marvin Gaye for songwriting credit; Ritz received credit only after settling with Marvin Gaye's estate after the singer's death

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I would imagine most of these recordings are nothing more than a few jams and Marvin singing a few lines/chorus to new songs he was trying  out which were not complete, be nice if something can be done with them to make them available though.

 

 

 

 

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Nice to know there are so many moaning Minnies on here still ... :lol:

I'd have thought that the prospect of 30 unheard MG tapes with 66 demos of unheard songs on them would have been met with a tad more enthusiasm to be honest ... :rolleyes:

Here's hoping there are a few real gems amongst them to cheer you miserable buggers up a bit ... :wicked:

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    16 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

    Nice to know there are so many moaning Minnies on here still ... :lol:

    I'd have thought that the prospect of 30 unheard MG tapes with 66 demos of unheard songs on them would have been met with a tad more enthusiasm to be honest ... :rolleyes:

    Here's hoping there are a few real gems amongst them to cheer you miserable buggers up a bit ... :wicked:

    Morning Mr Woodbutcher glad to see you are now in a happy place you always seemed to be ss Mr Angry 😂😂

    Happy Easter .

    Sad that it is 40 years on Monday since Marvin's death. 

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    2 minutes ago, Shinehead said:

    Morning Mr Woodbutcher glad to see you are now in a happy place you always seemed to be ss Mr Angry 😂😂

    Happy Easter .

    Sad that it is 40 years on Monday since Marvin's death. 

    :lol:

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    1 hour ago, Shinehead said:

    Morning Mr Woodbutcher glad to see you are now in a happy place you always seemed to be ss Mr Angry 😂😂

    Happy Easter .

    Sad that it is 40 years on Monday since Marvin's death. 

    😂🤣

    Played through samples of quite a few on channel 4 news. An album's worth of jazz standards, fly me to the moon ect. He sounded in fine voice on the samples, however the material would perhaps be of less interest to soul folk, it could have almost been a tribute to old blue eyes! No original compositions or soul related material.

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    6 hours ago, Geeselad said:

    Played through samples of quite a few on channel 4 news. An album's worth of jazz standards, fly me to the moon ect. He sounded in fine voice on the samples, however the material would perhaps be of less interest to soul folk, it could have almost been a tribute to old blue eyes! No original compositions or soul related material.

    I can not remember which documentary or who said it, but they state that Marvin only ever wanted to be a "crooner"

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    On 03/04/2024 at 17:59, Simon T said:

    I can not remember which documentary or who said it, but they state that Marvin only ever wanted to be a "crooner"

    Mickey Stevenson -

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