Track Listing

1. I'll Be Doggone
2. Little Darling (I Need You)
3. Take This Heart Of Mine
4. Hey Diddle Diddle
5. One More Heartache
6. Ain't That Peculiar
7. Night Life
8. You've Been A Long Time Coming
9. Your Unchanging Love
10. You're The One For Me
11. I Worry 'bout You
12. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
13. You
14. Tear It On Down
15. Chained
16. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
17. At Last (I Found A Love)
18. Some Kind Of Wonderful
19. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
20. Change What You Can
21. It's Love You Need
22. Every Now And Then
23. You're What's Happening In The World Today
24. There Goes My Baby

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111923 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Golden period Marvin, golden period Motown
Judging from the large sums being asked for this CD, it must have gone out of print. This is a shame, as these two consecutive albums from 1966 and 1968 catch him in the midst of his sixties hit-making period, and during Motown's heyday. To say he was Motown's top male vocalist at the time is high praise indeed considering the competition from Smokey, Levi, David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, but he quite possibly was, and these are superb, confident, exquisitely light performances, with dexterous treatments from the Funk Brothers.

Moods Of Marvin Gaye contains versions of past singles I'll Be Doggone/You've Been A Long Time Coming (1965), Ain't That Peculiar (1965), One More Heartache (1966) and Take This Heart Of Mine (1966). It later produced Little Darling (I Need You)/Hey Diddle Diddle (1966) and Your Unchanging Love (1967). The remaining four tracks were taken from a scrapped album of mainly standards, to be called Vulnerable, and are in a quite different style, Nat King Cole-influenced with lush big band backing. They range from Willie Nelson's Night Life, Billie Holiday's I Wonder 'Bout You and Frank Sinatra's One For My Baby to a new Stevie Wonder song called You're The One For Me.

In The Groove was at one time re-titled I Heard It Through The Grapevine to capitalise on the phenomenal success of the single that was released from it, a number one in the US and the UK. It also included the singles You/Change What You Can, Chained/At Last and the US B-side of Grapevine, You're What's Happening In The World Today (all from 1968). Like Moods, it wasn't envisioned as an album, the remaining tracks being two Drifters covers left in the can following a New York session in 1966 and recordings with different producers in 1967 and 1968, including an early version of Tear It On Down, later to be recorded by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and a smooth cover of the Four Tops' Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever.

Should a revised edition be in the pipeline, it could perhaps include as bonus tracks from the same timeline the non-album single Pretty Little Baby (1965) and the rarely collected B-sides When I Had Your Love (1966), She's Got To Be Real (1965) and I'll Take Care Of You (1967).