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marmar

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Thu Mar 28, 2024, 08:41 AM Mar 2024

On this day in 1971: Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' is the nation's top R&B song

On this day in 1971: Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ is the nation’s top R&B song
BY: KEN COLEMAN - MARCH 28, 2024 4:51 AM




(Michigan Advance) On March 28, 1971, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” the legendary recorded track, was the nation’s top Rhythm and Blues chart song.

At the time, Gaye, a Washington, D.C., native and Motown Records legend, lived on Detroit’s Northwest side. It was recorded at the Hitsville USA record studio in Detroit.

The venerable track addresses issues that gripped America at the time, such as concerns about white police harassment and brutality in urban communities like Detroit, Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles and helped to power the American Civil Rights movement. Civil unrest occurred in the Harlem section of New York City in 1964; the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965; and in Detroit and Newark, N.J., in 1967.



The song also lifted up a growing anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States. Massive rallies centered on the public demand to end U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia were carried out in several cities including Detroit, Ann Arbor and in Washington, D.C., during the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Then-U.S. Sen. Phil Hart (D-Birmingham) was a leading speaker during a large anti-Vietnam War rally held at the University of Michigan in 1969. ......................(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/on-this-day-in-1971-marvin-gayes-whats-going-on-is-the-nations-top-rb-song/




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On this day in 1971: Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' is the nation's top R&B song (Original Post) marmar Mar 2024 OP
R&B at its best. 'So sad that RAP has largely shoved the genre into obscurity (IMHO) hlthe2b Mar 2024 #1

hlthe2b

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1. R&B at its best. 'So sad that RAP has largely shoved the genre into obscurity (IMHO)
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 09:39 AM
Mar 2024

YMMV (as will Ari Melber's)...

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