' Forever Changes ' unlocked a new musical palette for African American musicians to utilize, which paved the way for future song cycles like Marvin Gaye's ' What's Going On ' and Sly Stone's ' There's a Riot Going On ,' classics by other African Americans that also chronicled the increasingly despondent state of the American dream.

Although the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessor was, it contained three high-charting singles, including the title track, " True Colors " which became Lauper's second song to hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, " Change of Heart " ( No. 3 ) and a cover of Marvin Gaye's " What's Going On " ( No. 12 ) followed.

Gaye's first album, The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye, released in June 1961, failed to chart, however.

His attorney until his death, Curtis Shaw, said Gaye's Ostend period was " the best thing that ever happened to Marvin ".

A year following his death, Marion Barry, the then-mayor of Washington, D. C. declared April 2 ( Marvin's birthday ) as " Marvin Gaye Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund Day " in the city on a day after the anniversary of Gaye's death.

A year later, Gaye's mother founded the Marvin P. Gaye Jr. Memorial Foundation in dedication to her son to help those suffering from drug abuse and alcoholism ; however she died a day before the memorial was set to open in 1987.

According to several music critics and historians, Marvin Gaye's career " spanned the entire history of rhythm and blues from fifties doo-wop to eighties contemporary soul.

* October 14 – Tammi Terrell faints and collapses into duet partner Marvin Gaye's arms onstage during a performance at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia.

The first video played is Marvin Gaye's rendition of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

While in Memphis in June 1968, Burke worked at the Sun Studios with Tamiko Jones ( born 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia, who was later both his manager and fiancée, on her album I'll Be Anything for You ( A & M SP3011 ), arranging several songs, including his own composition, " Suddenly "; singing duets with Jones on her cover of The Temptations ' " Please Return Your Love To Me " and Marvin Gaye's " Try It Baby "; and providing a vocal on " There's Got To Be A Better Way.

" Along with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, this album ushered in a new socially conscious, funky style of popular soul music.

That year, the quartet began applying background vocals for emerging Motown star Marvin Gaye, singing on Gaye's first hit single, " Stubborn Kind of Fellow " After Mary Wells failed to make a scheduled recording session feigning a short illness, the Vels recorded what was initially a demo recording of " I'll Have to Let Him Go ".

This resulted in the recordings of successful and critically acclaimed albums such as Marvin Gaye's What's Going On ( 1971 ) and Let's Get it On ( 1973 ), and Stevie Wonder's Music of My Mind ( 1972 ), Talking Book ( 1972 ), and Innervisions ( 1973 ).

The same lineup played on 1985's Sportin ' Life album, which included a cover of Marvin Gaye's " What's Going On " and appearances by Bobby McFerrin and Carl Anderson.

Initially the band was essentially a joke band rather than a serious one ; their first " show " was in class singing Marvin Gaye's " Got to Give It Up ", using rolled-up maps as guitars because they could not actually play any instruments.

The ladies provided backup vocals for Marvin Gaye's " Stubborn Kind of Fellow ".

She is also a part of the yet to be released documentary Marvin Gaye's sister made about her brother's life, My Brother Marvin.

It featured two UK top 10 hits with covers of Bob Dylan's " I'll Be Your Baby Tonight "-collaboration with UB40-and Marvin Gaye's cover " Mercy Mercy Me ".

", The Breeders ' " Cannonball ", Liz Phair's " Supernova " and Marvin Gaye's " Sexual Healing ".

According to Marvin Gaye's relatives, it was one of the few times in which father and son's relationship wasn't so troubling.

In 2008, LMC covered Marvin Gaye's " I Heard It Through The Grapevine ".

*" Right On " ( song ), the seventh track on Marvin Gaye's landmark album What's Going On

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On is perhaps the best remembered of this field.

James was friends with fellow Motown acts Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, though his friendship with the latter artist was tested after James began dating Gaye's former wife, Janis Gaye.

Songs featured in the film include " Anything Goes " performed by Harpers Bizarre during the opening credits, " Good Lovin ' Ain't Easy to Come By " by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, " Funky Broadway " by Wilson Pickett, "( Love Is Like A ) Heat Wave " by Martha and the Vandellas, and an instrumental version of Burt Bacharach's " The Look of Love ".

The concert was later recorded for the live album, Marvin Gaye Live !.

* Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 ( 2003 )

# " The Bells " ( Live ) ( Johnny Bristol, Marvin Gaye, Anna Gordy, Elgie Stover ) – 4: 14

In 2002 Hammond returned to the group Commissioned ( now with members Keith Staten, Marvin Sapp, Mitchell Jones, Karl Reid, Michael Williams, and Marcus Cole ) to produce the Commissioned Reunion Live album.

# " I Love To Praise Him "; Praise In His Presence Live ; Marvin Sapp ; Frederick L. Vaughn, Ralph Lofton, Paul Wright, Terry Baker, Simeon Baker, Charles Al Willis ; Harborwood

Vandiver opened his race for governor in 1958 with a battle in the Legislature against the issuance of $50 million worth of additional rural roads bonds proposed by then Gov. Marvin Griffin.

The 1986 film The Delta Force starred Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops tasked with retaking a plane hijacked by Lebanese terrorists.

Marvin Harris theorizes that it happened during a famine period coincident with the arrival of Europeans and was rationalized as a religious rite.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

Marvin Lewis was rewarded for the accomplishment with the NFL Coach of the Year Award.

The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

The definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary incorporates suffering as a necessary condition, with " the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma ", and this approach can be seen as a part of other works, such as Marvin Khol and Paul Kurtz's " a mode or act of inducing or permitting death painlessly as a relief from suffering ".

Brown nearly had the perfect game, but he hit the Giants ' Marvin Benard with a pitch in the 8th inning when Benard attempted to bunt.

Contrary to rumors, Marvin did not serve with producer and actor Bob Keeshan during World War II.

One critic described the show as " a hyped-up, violent Dragnet ... with a hard-as-nails Marvin " playing a tough police lieutenant.

In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as The Comancheros ( 1961 ), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 ), and Donovan's Reef ( 1963 ), all starring John Wayne, with Marvin's roles getting larger with each film.

As the vicious Liberty Valance, Marvin played his first title role and held his own with two of the screen's biggest stars ( Wayne and James Stewart ).

He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group ( future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland ) performing an almost impossible mission.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

Marvin had a much greater variety of roles in the 1970s and 1980s, with fewer ' bad-guy ' roles than in earlier years.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

Marvin was a liberal Democrat who opposed the Vietnam War and declared his support for the gay rights movement in a January 1969 interview with Playboy magazine.

An example from Psychobiology of Personality by Marvin Zuckerman is alcoholism: Studies suggest that alcoholism is an inherited disease, but if a subject with a strong biological background of alcoholism in their family tree is never exposed to alcohol, they will not be so inclined regardless of their genome.

Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler were among her students and colleagues.

Finally, with the release of the motion picture The Sting in 1973, which had a Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack of Joplin tunes originally edited by Gunther Schuller, ragtime was brought to a wide audience.

** Episode 46 " The Losers " ( Co-Writer & Director ) ( with Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn )