' 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.

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.

Prospector Jake Whippany is waiting to save enough money to send for Cherry and her Fandango girls (" Rumson "), while Jennifer senses the tension building in town (" What's Going On Here ?").

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.

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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.

Hitsville U. S. A., where Marvin and The Funk Brothers recorded much of What's Going On at, the first album in which the Funk Brothers earned credit on a Motown album.

On June 10, 1970, Gaye returned to the Hitsville U. S. A. studios where he recorded his new composition, " What's Going On ", inspired by an idea from Renaldo " Obie " Benson of the Four Tops after he witnessed an act of police brutality at an anti-war rally in Berkeley.

Emboldened by its success, Gaye spent ten days recording the What's Going On album after Gordy gave him an ultimatum of completing the album by the end of that March.

The " What's Going On " song was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Male R & B Vocal Performance.

During Gaye's 1971-1972 What's Going On period, JET magazine once named him the " inner city's musical poet ".

Gaye had a total of 13 number-one hits in his career (" I'll Be Doggone ", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing ", " You're All I Need to Get By ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby ", " What's Going On ", " Mercy Mercy Me ( The Ecology )", " Inner City Blues ( Make Me Wanna Holler )", " Let's Get It On ", " I Want You ", " Got to Give It Up " and " Sexual Healing ") as well as many other top ten hits.

The Rock & Roll Hall has listed at least three of Gaye's songs in its list of 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", " What's Going On " and " Sexual Healing ".

Three of Gaye's albums are listed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time including What's Going On (# 6 ), Let's Get It On (# 165 ) and Here, My Dear (# 456 ) while four of his hit singles made it to the magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time including " Sexual Healing " (# 233 ), " Let's Get It On " (# 168 ), " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " (# 81 ) and " What's Going On " (# 4 ).

" What's Going On " was listed on Detroit's Metro Times list at # 1 on its list of 100 Greatest Detroit Songs of All Time.

In a MusicRadar poll, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", one of his most famous songs, was voted No. 1 and greatest Motown song and his " What's Going On " made the top five.

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.

Bowman further wrote that the recording of the " What's Going On " single was " the first single to utilize all three as Marvin developed a radical approach to constructing his recordings by layering a series of contraptunal background vocal lines on different tracks, each one conceived and sung in isolation by Marvin himself.

Gaye's first recordings involving social commentary occurred a couple years before working on What's Going On, including " Abraham, Martin & John " and " The Onion Song ", two songs of which gave Gaye hit success in Europe where it charted mainly in the United Kingdom pop chart.

On September 14, 1958 Sullivan appeared on What's My Line?

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On television he was a frequent contributor to the 1973-1974 revival of What's My Line ?, hosted the weekly entertainment show International Cabaret and was a reader for the children's story-reading series Jackanory on BBC1.

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On October 1, 2006, only What's My Line?

On December 31, GSN reinstated the Black and White Overnight to 7 days a week from 3: 00-4: 00 AM, showcasing What's My Line?

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Disney Channel occasionally airs " special edition " airings of its high-profile original movie premieres: sing-along versions of The Cheetah Girls trilogy, High School Musical, High School Musical 2 and Camp Rock have aired in which lyrics are displayed on screen for viewers to sing with the songs in the films ; the channel also airs " What's What " editions of its high-profile original movies using a format that mimics the former VH1 series Pop-Up Video in which facts about the movie and its stars pop up on screen at various points during the film.

Other early pieces of Cowell's featuring tone clusters include the atonal, dissonant Dynamic Motion ( 1916 ) and its five " encores "— What's This?

What's Going On would later be described by an Allmusic writer as an album that " not only redefined soul music as a creative force but also expanded its impact as an agent for social change ".

* September – What's My Line begins its run in first-run syndication ( 1968 – 1975 ).

Kilgore was the architect of the paper's iconic front-page design, with its " What's News " digest, and its national distribution strategy, which brought the paper's circulation from 33, 000 in 1941 to 1. 1 million at the time of Kilgore's death in 1967.

After presenting nearly identical front-page layouts for half a century — always six columns, with the day's top stories in the first and sixth columns, " What's News " digest in the second and third, the " A-hed " feature story in the fourth and themed weekly reports in the fifth column – the paper in 2007 decreased its broadsheet width from 15 to 12 inches while keeping the length at 22 inches, in order to save newsprint costs.

From 1950-1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC, The Speidel Show and What's My Name?

Louder Now draws its name from the opening track " What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost ?".

" Stopette " gained its prominence as the first and long-time sponsor of the game show What's My Line ?, and was later eclipsed by many other brands as the 1941 patent expired.

What's more, Radiohead's 1995 single " Just ", with its ascending guitar hook, bears a passing resemblance to " Shot By Both Sides ".

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What's taken its place is the extremely aggressive free-trade practice of loss leader strategy.

Diefenbaker sharpened the anecdote over time, and it emerged in its final form as Howe saying, " What's a million?

Wells ' success continued in 1963 when she hit the Top 20 with the doo-wop ballad " Laughing Boy " and scored three additional Top 40 singles, " Your Old Standby ", " You Lost the Sweetest Boy ", and its B-side, " What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One ".

With new drummer Vinnie Jukic, third album Stealing Chairs saw 28 Days into 2002, with its most popular single being the summary " What's The Deal ?".