Moods of Marvin Gaye

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Moods of Marvin Gaye
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Studio album by
Marvin Gaye
ReleasedMay 23, 1966
Recorded Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Genre Soul
Length36:12
Label Tamla
Producer
Marvin Gaye chronology
A Tribute to the Great Nat King Cole
(1966)		Moods of Marvin Gaye
(1966)		 Take Two
(1966)
Singles from Moods of Marvin Gaye
  1. "I'll Be Doggone"
    Released: February 26, 1965
  2. "Ain't That Peculiar"
    Released: September 14, 1965
  3. "One More Heartache"
    Released: January 31, 1966
  4. "Take This Heart of Mine"
    Released: May 5, 1966
  5. "Little Darling (I Need You)"
    Released: July 26, 1966
  6. "Your Unchanging Love"
    Released: June 13, 1967

Moods of Marvin Gaye is the seventh studio album by Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla label in 1966.

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The album was the result of a plan to establish Gaye as a strong album-oriented artist as well as a hit maker. Gaye was still uncomfortable with performing strictly R&B and had begun work on a standards album around this time, after meeting musician Bobby Scott. However, the sessions were unsuccessful and he would successfully complete a standards album only in his later years (released posthumously as Vulnerable in 1997). For the time being, Gaye was winning more fans and had become a crossover teen idol.

Six songs from Moods of Marvin Gaye were released as singles, all of which reached the Top 40 on the R&B singles chart. Four singles reached the Top 40 on the Pop Singles Chart.

Gaye also scored his first two No. 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.

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Track listing

Side One
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'll Be Doggone" Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin 2:47
2."Little Darling (I Need You)" Holland–Dozier–Holland 2:35
3."Take This Heart of Mine"Moore, Robinson, Tarplin2:49
4."Hey Diddle Diddle" Johnny Bristol, Harvey Fuqua, Gaye2:30
5."One More Heartache"Moore, Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Tarplin, Ronald White 2:42
6."Ain't That Peculiar"Moore, Robinson, Rogers, Tarplin3:00
Side Two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Night Life"Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Willie Nelson 3:05
2."You've Been a Long Time Coming"Holland-Dozier-Holland2:13
3."Your Unchanging Love"Holland-Dozier-Holland3:13
4."You're the One For Me" Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder 3:24
5."I Worry 'Bout You" Norman Mapp 3:24
6."One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer 4:30

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