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Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Monday, June 7, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2302 - What's Going On? Marvin Gaye - Musical Monday for 2106.07

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2302 - What's Going On? Marvin Gaye - Musical Monday for 2106.07

What's going on?

Still as relevant today as 50 years ago.

One of the classic albums of all time by the late great MARVIN GAYE back in 1971 one of the biggest hits for the MOTOWN label from my dear DETROIT MOTOR ROCK AND SOUL CITY.

WHAT'S GOING ON? by Marvin Gaye is considered by many to be one of the greatest albums in modern music.

Rolling Stone ranked it NUMBER ONE in its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, unseating Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles for the top spot in the revised 2020 list version.

Here's that 2020 list:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-4-1063232/

The top five in the new 2020 list are now [2] Pet Sounds - the Beach Boys, [3] Blue by Joni Mitchell [4] Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder, and [5] Abbey Road by the Beatles.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band dropped to 24th.

The previous list:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/

Let's SAVE THE CHILDREN.

That's all I want to say. Just experience the music. Some live versions of the eponymous song, an updated 2019 video that is somewhat prophetic given the events of 2020, and the full album.

Word.

Marvin Gaye What's Going On Live 1972

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What's Going on (Full Album)

#MarvinGaye #WhatsGoingOn

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

(Official Video 2019)

6,594,647 views•Sep 13, 2019

“What’s Going On” (Deluxe Edition/50th Anniversary) Available Now!

Listen Here: https://marvingaye.lnk.to/WhatsGoingOnDeluxe

‘What’s Going On Live’ Album Out Now!

Listen Here: https://UMe.lnk.to/WhatsGoingOnLiveYD

Hitsville: The Making Of Motown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Available Now!

Get it here: https://motown.lnk.to/Hitsville

For more Marvin Gaye news and merchandise:

Marvin Gaye Facebook: https://facebook.com/MarvinGaye

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Director: Savanah Leaf

Producers: Danielle Hinde/Danny Lockwood/ Rich Hutchins/ Jason Cole

Prod Co: Doomsday Entertainment

“We shot ‘What’s Going On' in Detroit and Flint Michigan, we wanted a place that resonates with the song and the history of Motown, while also remaining relevant to the sociopolitical issues in the music video.

The music video took four days to shoot, but I travelled to Michigan a couple weeks early to find the right people. It was very important for us to find real people that resonated with the stories, rather than casting actors. We wanted the history of the song and the communities we filmed in to come through in our video. For example, Steve Smith, who plays the blind man in our music video, actually worked for Motown when ‘What’s Going On’ was originally recorded. The church we filmed in was one of the first establishments to set up a water station for the Flint community - they would hand out clean water and raise awareness on the ongoing crisis within the community.

In addition to Steve Smith, we had the opportunity to feature other influential community figures in our music video, including Karen Weaver, the mayor of Flint, and pivotal activists that have been involved in the Flint Water Crisis for many years. One such activist in our music video is named Ariana Hawk, who, along with her young son, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine during the height of the water crisis. She ended up moving from Flint, only to return in order to continue the fight for her community. To this day, the Flint Water Crisis has yet to be resolved, and Ariana continues to be a strong activist in the movement.

"The point is that this is a historic song for an important moment in history, and what’s beautiful is that it’s message is timeless and universal. It’s about human emotions, human relationships, and a coming together. My hope is that our music video will remind people to continue asking the question Marvin Gaye asked in 1971.” - Director: Savanah Leaf

#MarvinGaye #WhatsGoingOn

Music in this video

Learn more

Song

What's Going On (Coffeehouse Mix)

Artist

Marvin Gaye

Writers

Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye

Licensed to YouTube by

UMG (on behalf of UNI/MOTOWN); LatinAutorPerf, Sony ATV Publishing, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, CMRRA, LatinAutor - SonyATV, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., SOLAR Music Rights Management, and 12 Music Rights Societies

https://performingsongwriter.com/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on/

https://www.gainesville.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/07/22/marvin-gayes-whats-going-on-still-relevant-and-revealing-50-years-on/112745944/

https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/marvin-gayes-whats-going-on-turns-50-secrets-behind-the-hit/

https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/history/2020/07/18/marvin-gayes-whats-going-on-still-relevant-and-revealing-50-years-on/113402632/

https://www.cbc.ca/music/50-things-you-need-to-know-about-marvin-gaye-s-what-s-going-on-1.5054267

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

(Live At Montreux1980)

1,848,764 views•Sep 19, 2012

Live At Montreux

This is a fantastic live DVD from Marvin Gaye recorded at the Montreux Casino on July 7 1980, as part of that year's 14th Montreux Jazz Festival.

Marvin Gaye is an American legend. He was signed to the fledgling Motown label in 1961 by label founder Berry Gordy and later that year he married Gordy's sister. He scored a total of 39 US Top 40 singles for the label including such classics as "Let's Get It On", "Ain't That Peculiar", "Inner City Blues", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "What's Going On" and of course "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", all of which are included on this DVD. Marvin Gaye died in 1984, shot by his father following an argument, and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987.

With a running time of around 100 minutes, this DVD captures Marvin Gaye at the very height of his powers and combines outstanding music with a scintillating live performance.

Tracklisting:

1) Got To Give It Up 2) Funky Space (Reincarnation) 3) Come Get To This 4) Let's Get It On 5) After The Dance 6) If This World Was Mine / Ain't Nothing But The Real Thing / Ain't No Mountain High Enough 7) How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 8) Ain't That Peculiar 9) I'll Be Doggone 10) I Heard It Through The Grapevine 11) Trouble Man 12) Distant Lover 13) Inner City Blues 14) Mercy Mercy Me 15) What's Going On

https://www.freep.com/in-depth/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2020/07/12/marvin-gayes-whats-going-on-50th-protests/5397442002/

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

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This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

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Monday, June 7, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2302 - What's Going On? Marvin Gaye - Musical Monday for 2106.07

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