Examples include Bob Dylan's " Masters of War " ( which contains the lines " I hope that you die / And your death'll come soon ") and " What's Going On " by Marvin Gaye.

" Sexual Healing " won Gaye his first two Grammy Awards including Best Male Vocal Performance, in February 1983, and also won Gaye an American Music Award in the soul / R & B category.

A documentary about Gaye – What's Going On: The Marvin Gaye Story – was a UK / PBS co-production, directed by Jeremy Marre and was first broadcast in 2006 ; two years later, the special re-aired with a different production and newer interviews after it was re-broadcast as an American Masters special.

* Nona Gaye as Belinda / Khalilah Ali

His principal challengers in the general election were Independent / Progressive Anthony Pollina, and Democrat Gaye Symington.

The soundtrack features ten late ' 60s / early ' 70s pop / rock songs, including " The Weight ", " Good Lovin ', " In the Midnight Hour " ( the Young Rascals version ), " You Can't Always Get What You Want ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ( the Marvin Gaye version )", " My Girl " ( the Temptations version ), "( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman " and " Joy To The World " ( the Three Dog Night version ).

She started her career as a background singer in Detroit, Michigan, singing on many of the Golden World / Motown hits and working with legendary acts like The Four Tops and Marvin Gaye.

Brambell also appeared as Bill Gaye in the 1962 Maurice Chevalier / Hayley Mills picture, In Search of the Castaways.

By the early 60s figures like Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder were dominating the R & B charts and breaking through into the main pop charts, helping to accelerate their desegregation, while Motown and Stax / Volt Records were becoming major forces in the record industry.

He found a songwriting collaborator in lyricist Barrett Strong, the performer on Motown's first hit record, " Money ( That's What I Want )", and wrote material for The Temptations and other Motown artists such as Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, both of whom recorded Whitfield-produced hit versions of the Whitfield / Strong composition " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".

Upon joining the Motown staff in 1966, Ashford & Simpson were paired with the vocal duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and they wrote and / or produced all but one of the late-1960s Gaye / Terrell singles, including hits such as the original version of " Ain't No Mountain High Enough ", " Your Precious Love ", " Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing ", and " You're All I Need to Get By ".

He is also the ex-beau of singer / actress Nona Gaye.

Lattimore and Chanté Moore recorded a cover version of the Marvin Gaye / Tammi Terrell duet " You're All I Need to Get By ".

" Got to Give It Up " is a funk / disco song by American recording artist Marvin Gaye.

In 1993, at the end of the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Whoopi Goldberg and most of the cast of the movie, including future neo-soul superstar Lauryn Hill, mixed both the Gaye / Terrell and Diana Ross solo versions of the song together for a performance of " Ain't No Mountain " at the climax of the film.

The Gaye / Terrell version also frequently turns up, often as part of a sing-along, in " feel-good " movies, such as Remember the Titans and Stepmom.

In 1998, Debelah Morgan covered the song for the movie Our Friend, Martin, also mixing the Gaye / Terrell and Diana Ross versions.

R & B singer Tweet sampled the Gaye / Terrell original for the intro of her 2005 single " Turn Da Lights Off ", featuring Missy Elliott.

Notable artists under this label were The Supremes, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Martha and the Vandellas, and The Jackson Five.

Gaye was one of many who shaped the sound and success of Motown Records in the 1960s, becoming that label's top-selling solo artist of that decade with a string of hits including " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

Following the death of Tammi Terrell in 1970, Gaye went into seclusion, emerging the following year with " What's Going On " and its subsequent album, which helped to make him one of the first artists in Motown to break away from the reins of Motown's production company to be his own artist.

A screenshot of a 1967 performance by Gaye and Terrell during taping of the Today ( NBC program ) | Today Show.

In 1967, Gaye began working on duets with singer Tammi Terrell.

*** Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell for Ain't No Mountain High Enough "

* United ( Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album )

Despite rumors, she never dated fellow Motown singer Marvin Gaye, who would go on to have successful duet partnerships with Kim Weston, Tammi Terrell and Diana Ross after Wells left Motown.

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 ".

Tammi Terrell ( born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery ; April 29, 1945 — March 16, 1970 ) was an American recording artist, best known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, most notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.

With Gaye, Terrell scored 7 Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including " Ain't No Mountain High Enough " and " You're All I Need to Get By ".

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in a promotional 1967 photo

Figuring Terrell could benefit, Gordy asked Terrell to sing duets with Gaye, which she agreed.

Gaye later recalled that he didn't know how musically and vocally gifted Terrell was until they began recording duets together.

For sessions of their first recording, the Ashford & Simpson composition, " Ain't No Mountain High Enough ", both Gaye and Terrell recorded separate versions.

Motown remixed the vocals and edited out the background vocals, giving just Gaye and Terrell vocal dominance.

Throughout that year, Gaye and Terrell began performing together and Terrell became a vocal and performance inspiration for the shy and laid-back Gaye, who hated live performing.

However, on October 14, 1967, while performing with Gaye at Hampden-Sydney College, outside of the college of Farmville, Virginia, Terrell fell and buckled onstage ; Gaye quickly responded by grabbing her by the arms and helping her offstage.

Late in 1969, Terrell made her final public appearance at the Apollo Theater where Marvin Gaye was headlining the bill.

As soon as Terrell was spotted by Gaye, he rushed to her side and the duo began singing " You're All I Need to Get By " together.

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.

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

A Bollywood version, Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam was released in 2008.

#" What's Going On " ( club version by Shep Pettibone ) ( Renaldo " Obie " Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye )

Gaye began singing at his father's church and in church revivals starting around the age of five, with his first public performance being a version of " Journey to the Sky " at a Kentucky church revival with his father accompanying him on piano.

In late 1968, " Grapevine " would become an even bigger hit for Marvin Gaye, whose version, recorded before Knight's but released a year afterwards at Whitfield's insistence, became a # 1 pop hit for seven weeks.

Banks still has that historic tape of the music to which Gaye sang his soulful version.

A cover of a lesser-known Marvin Gaye track, Tzuke's version turned a rather sedate piece into a grinding electro production.

The film begins with The Band performing the last song of the evening, their cover version of the Marvin Gaye hit " Don't Do It ", as an encore.

His work includes Motown hits such as, among hundreds of others, " Shotgun " by Jr. Walker & the All Stars, " For Once in My Life ", " I Was Made To Love Her " by Stevie Wonder ( sometimes noted as being claimed by Carol Kaye, Ms Kaye actually claims the track on the late 60s Beach Boys version of the same song ), " Going to a Go-Go " by The Miracles, " My Girl " by The Temptations, " Dancing in the Street " by Martha and the Vandellas, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and later by Marvin Gaye, and most of the album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, " Reach Out I'll Be There " and " Bernadette " by the Four Tops, and " You Can't Hurry Love " by The Supremes.

" I Heard It Through the Grapevine " is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966, and made famous in a version by Marvin Gaye released as a single in October 1968 on Motown's Tamla label.

After recording the song with Marvin Gaye in 1967, which Gordy also rejected, Whitfield recorded a version with Gladys Knight & the Pips, which Gordy agreed to release as a single in September 1967, and which went to number two in the Billboard chart.

The Marvin Gaye version was placed on his 1968 album In the Groove, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys, and Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969 and became for a time the biggest hit single on the Motown label.

On the commemorative 50th Anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as the 65th biggest song on the chart.

In addition to being recorded several times by Motown artists, the song has been covered by a range of musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival, who recorded an eleven-minute version for their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory, and has been used twice in television commercials – each time using session musicians recreating the style of the Marvin Gaye version: the 1985 Levi's commercial, " Launderette ", featuring male model Nick Kamen, and the 1986 California raisins promotion with Buddy Miles as the singer for the clay animation group The California Raisins.

In 1968 Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers recorded a version for their debut album based on Gladys ' recent hit ; though, after hearing the Marvin Gaye version, they felt they'd made the wrong choice.

Because of the success of both versions, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " was the first and last number one on the Billboard R & B chart in 1968: the Pips version was the first week of January, the Gaye version the last week of December.