Marvin Gaye - Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye (Music CD) available on May 27 2017 from Base for 2.79
The Soulful Moods Of Marvin Gaye available on April 08 2016 from Amazon for 10.99
EAN bar code 5050457114824 ξ1 registered May 27 2017
EAN bar code 5050457114824 ξ2 registered April 08 2016
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - R&B & Soul Audio
Manufacturered by Hallmark
Product weight is 0.18 lbs.
Digitally remastered edition of this classic Soul album. Marvin Gaye's debut album for the Tamla label, released in 1961, contains little of the smooth R&B that was later to become his trademark. Instead, Marvin saw himself moving in the same kind of circles as Nat King Cole - a crooner and interpreter of other's songs. The success that Ray Charles had by combining soul with Jazz further convinced Marvin that that was where his future lay, putting him on an early collision course with Berry Gordy. Perhaps to appease his future brother-in-law, he allowed him virtually an album of standards but put two R&B songs on at the end. Interestingly enough, the release of 'Masquerade' as a single was credited to Marvin Gay - by the time the album came out he was Gaye.
This is an amazingly bad sounding CD. I don't care if it's a budget CD or not, but all of the tracks are not mono; they horribly electronically rechanneled to simulate stereo, and it sounds like I can hear turntable rumble at the start of each song, making it dubbed from a disc.This is an early Motown album, and of course, it was probably recorded in mono, but there's no excuse for such a lousy sounding CD, regardless of its pricepoint.Musically, of co..
