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' 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.
#" What's Going On " ( club version by Shep Pettibone ) ( Renaldo " Obie " Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye )
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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.
What's Going On and its 1973 follow-up, Let's Get It On became among the first concept albums in R & B music.
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.

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On September 14, 1958 Sullivan appeared on What's My Line?
* What's Goin ' On Here?
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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What's more, Frederick was physically damaged from the accident, and would not fully recover for 15 months.
Of the twenty demo songs not officially released, fifteen would be recorded and released on the White Album, while " Not Guilty " and " What's the New Mary Jane " would be recorded for the album but not make the final lineup.
Neo asks how she knew, to which the Oracle responds, " What's really going to bake your noodle later on is: would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?
Commenting on Martin's strategy as a manager, Dave Winfield has stated that opposing players would often ask each other, " What's Billy doing now?
This fact would later be underscored in a radio segment featured on The Kevin and Bean Show on Los Angeles's KROQ FM, in which the hosts would phone Head in the morning to find out " What's Up with Murray Head?
The group's breakout hit was 1988's " What's on Your Mind ( Pure Energy )," a dance – freestyle – synthpop hit, went straight to No. 1 on the dance chart and spent 39 weeks on the chart and would peak at No. 3 on the hot 100 pop chart.
) What's worse, in Thompson's proof of concept implementation, the subverted compiler also subverted the analysis program ( the disassembler ), so that anyone who examined the binaries in the usual way would not actually see the real code that was running, but something else instead.
These characters never spoke or moved ; the hosts would let the audience know what they were saying, for example, one of the hosts would say " What's that Marigold?
Fates would later produce and / or direct many Goodson-Todman game shows on the network ( most notably What's My Line?
In May 1967, during the final year of What's My Line ?, it was announced that Daly would become the director of the Voice of America after the show ended.
Increasingly later in the run, the panelists were sometimes buzzed out when they were getting too close to the secret, were suspected to be about to get it, or simply at a point that would get a laugh ; this was precipitated in part by the fact that, like What's My Line, the top payoff never increased with inflation, and the money eventually became somewhat secondary to the gameplay, with the cash awards not even mentioned at all by the end of the series.
She would, however, make occasional appearances on television, including mystery guest appearances for What's My Line ?, The Ed Sullivan Show and two aqua-specials, The Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle in 1956 and Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens on August 8, 1960.
In South Africa, Fathers ' Day was released as What's Up Pop's ?, a title the distributor decided would be more appropriate for the local market.
The next release would be in May 1989 – the " What's Happened?
In keeping in step with the changing times, Mary J. Blige would release her debut album, " What's the 411?
" Fox commentator Joe Buck said as the series began: " What's hard to believe, it was almost exactly one year ago tonight that Aaron Boone hit that home 11th inning home run to beat the Red Sox, to get for some reason it seemed predetermined that we would be right back here a year later for a rematch of sort.
* What's Hot, What's Not: Rove would describe something that is hot ( popular ) at the moment and compare it with something that is not ( e. g. What's Hot – Lamborghinis.
Muhammed Ali was renowned for loudly rapping in which round he would despatch his opponent, but the most famous sledging was his more serious " What's my name?
" Another producer, Charlie Greene, claims that Stills first said the above sentence to him, but credits Ahmet Ertegun with subtitling the single " Stop, Hey What's That Sound " so that the song would be more easily recognized.

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