Marvin Gaye "What's Going On / What's Happening Brother" 

Awesome...nice to honor ur dad.

Thank you

Blessings.

💕✝️💯❣️

Fantastic thanks 🇺🇸

O my gosh you are so right I'm 59

Inmortal Marvin❤😊

"... but who are they to judge us, simply 'cause our hair is long..." has always struck me as an important lyric. It was Marvin's shout out to the counterculture. There was a time when white middle class kids had a taste of what it was like to be treated like a person of color. Back then, if you had long hair, most places wouldn't hire you, you were profiled by the police, pilloried by politicians, harassed by right wing hardhats in the north and rednecks in the south and shot at on college campuses. An affinity was felt between the long haired and young black people, they called each other brother and sister. That one lyric is like a history lesson.

Right on sister

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"The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE" I see them every day. In their race with technology, they have become ZOMBIES. I still have a flip phone, and THIS WAS the GOLDEN AGE of MUSIC.

Yes indeed !

I so agree

True words spoken you have to admit that's reality

Muito atual

Am white skin head and i lovd marvin anz eddir murphy every 1 fine hopefully x

Never in this New Era. Sorry, buddy...😢

000 😊​@@fibonachi4127

It is everything....... ...........and nothing

@@fibonachi4127 fool

My condolences… love the song too❤

My mom loved his music. i was a kid when she listened to this classic. Now I'm 39years. She also passed on on the 16th Jan 2022. May their souls rest in peace.

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🫡🙏🏾🤎

My Deepest Sympathy for your loss. Losing any parents is like being hit with a ton of bricks. Cherished the memories

Plus his NBA National Anthem... BEST EVER !

Good job, Frank. I am only 56 but this stuff from my childhood really wins hands down.

This LP was given to me in the 70's by a GI serving at USAF Chicksands and it is still the best ever. Thanks Ken Lee Beckham - wherever you are. 👍💓

... and I add Quincy Jones' What's going on, and Teddy Pendergrass and so on and so on ... and feel blessed and thankfull! Fantastic people - eternal music!

Well, I do have to include Wes Montgomery as a second.

Absolutely one of the great.❤

@richardlovekim9056 thank you for everything! I did listen to this when I got it 50 years ago!

God bless you my friend. Thank you for your service.

Crazy

The best album over the past 50 years per ROLLING STONE..was based on his brothers return from VIETNAM..Thanks for service!!

society never changes.....SSDD......same sh__ different day.

@@brucebarclay1967 I made that comment, because I grew up in sixties, an era when Black people were fighting for equality and social justice in our schools, and housing. However in 2023 we are still fighting for the same things. In Baltimore, like most urban cities, is plagued with gun violence, drugs , mass unemployment, and poverty, and police corruption. But people were fighting against these problems in the sixties. There were drugs, but not an epidemic. We had strong leaders, who took the bullet for standing up against the status quo. But today young Black men are killing each other , and I ask the same question "What's going on "?

@@bonitaphinney1529 I too grew up in the 60s and saw the smoke rising in the sky as the riots took place in the summer of 1967 in Detroit. I agree with you completely esp. abut why Black people kill each other.

What is going on 2024?

A question that will always remain open

4-Sure. There’s just no real R&B today. Rapp ( crap) is useless. It so disrespectful, and glorifies violence, money and abusing women. Unfortunately it has been a bad influence on so many black youth.

Not just "Black" music.....

@@Mark-gg6iy A little out of context Mark. But um @smustipher, I am in agreement! Its like our people slipped into the thing we were fighting... We lost the fight. All my aunts and uncles that were around before civil rights and had to drink from the colored fountains got full educations... all eight of them. they grew up picking cotton. Now, all 24 of their children (my cousins), only some of the females have educations while all the males have no education. My brother and I are the first in the family of men born past 1956 to have taken the opportunity to RISE up! Unfortunantly the music reflects this... Its not a bad thing, its just whats happening brother!

@@studid55 interesting personal take, lost in a reply to a random YT comment, but i saw it

​​@@studid55 Music leads us, then reveals us. Our social world has a strong relationship with the storytelling of music, especially the influence of Motown. The music of that era affected all of us and still does.

I think many artist are in the category of the best. Marvin certainly is among them. There were so many at this time. I WAS BLESSED! We were all blessed by two decades of GREAT MUSIC. Jazz had it's own thing going on. Just as good. The SPIRIT NEVER DIES!

And WHITE PEOPLE did not want this song to be played on the radio! But here we’re today 2024 blasting this song full volume!! ❤

That’s cause we been stupid. Maybe getting too woke now. Just sort of jokin’💕

I saw your Dad backing Marvin, live at the Royal Theater in Baltimore, MD..thank Jesus for all of us..

My condolences

Sorry for your loss. May he rest in eternal peace!

🙏

Marv. April 1st. Not long after my baby girl was born. Heard it on the news. Meltdown. XXXX

Impactante, simplesmente impactante 🍺🍺🗿🗿

❤ Love Marvin and 😢good to know Eli on the 6:12 sax.. No one Can compare to this.. 50 year ago

Has it been 52 years? Oh no,..it's gone too fast

I am a white women and he is superb you are blessed to have a gentle soul with the voice of an angel,.

@@jeanniemitchem998 God Is Good

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Don't forget somebody variant's terminal in this eddie Bongp brown

Mi piaceva il pezzo di MARVIN ma... mi sono incuriosito sul basso perché lo sentivo suonare linee di basso non convenzionali, non in accordo con la cassa della batteria, quasi um controcanto o contrappunto meraviglioso ...poi ho scoperto chi fosse questo meraviglioso bassista unico originalissimo con uno stile suo... il grande James Jamerson!

Uno stile meraviglioso unico... grandissimo James

@@410kombat E nota che suona, usando solo il dito indice!

I can believe it. His music is like fine wine. He prophesied a lot to the world. I thank God for he and his legacy.

@@stephenjohnson8570 Right on Steven I totally Agree.

50 years. Wow, what’s tragic is how young and much more creativity he had inside when he was taken from this world. Rip King Marvin!

I play the What's goin on cd in my car. It's so evocative of early 70's. A masterpiece umho. Tell it Marvin our brother forever remembered

Xxxxxxxxxx

more now

AMEN 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

You have that right for sure and my sincere thank you to the young lady who's dad played on this . her daddy is in heaven with my husband

You go ms Tina lilly

Yes!

I tell you an album that I put on and like WGO,,, Choice of Colours by The Impressions,, that album sadly means more now than it did 60 odd yrs ago when Curtis Mayfield sang the title song,,,,, the part **Better days are coming*,,, I prey they do fast 🙏🙏 god bless all races, We are all one in really a dot from the Sky

67 and feel exactly the same..the most complete album ever made!..genius!!,🎷🇬🇧

Preach

Geeze Marvin can make my hair stand on end to this day...when music was at its best.

65 hell 70 and i still do too

I'm 48 and really diggin' your answer. I know exactly what you mean. Mostly into Prince, but this man is a serious LEGEND as well! I bought the "Special Extended CD" of "Whats going on" long time ago, it's a monument for sure....

Me too...I'm 65 and his music takes me back to a simpler, happier time...best music vibes 💜

Word up bro

Yes bro, I do too as well. Tearjerking perfection right here.

Just posted Wholy holy to my FB page, we need that song in this world tonite.

And that warm and lovely smile

He was and a legend. Graduated from Harvard University. ❤❤❤❤❤

thanks

You're right that this is how this epic album with its legendary songs should be played. LIVE and at the actual time! Unfortunately, besides this "documentary", this was taken from, a live performance at around 71-73 from MARVIN is nearly impossible to find (please prove me wrong).

Right On! Hang in there, Brother! I appreciate your post-so much. Hoping and praying for a better year---TS. :)

To: @bobhillstrom4915, It take a good heart to enjoy Marvin for 50. year, I am 60 years old n has been listening to Marvin for the last 40 years. God Bless You

NIce words man, the best and my prayers for you

Your comment beautifully captures the profound impact of music, especially Marvin Gaye's timeless songs. Indeed, his music has a unique ability to evoke deep emotions and connect with the shared human experience. The way his audience feels every note, as if it's tugging at their heartstrings, is a testament to the enduring power of Marvin Gaye's music. It's a testament to his ability to convey the universal themes of human suffering and resilience through his soulful melodies and poignant lyrics. Music has this incredible capacity to transcend time and touch the soul, and Marvin Gaye's songs are a perfect example of this. They serve as a reminder of our shared humanity and the emotions that bind us all together. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and emotions, and for appreciating the profound impact of Marvin Gaye's music on the hearts of listeners. It's a testament to the lasting legacy of a truly remarkable artist.

I still get choked app every time I hear this song it really hits my heart.

So true! And that's why he STILL lives on! 💙🙏🏾

I think great music is the closest we'll ever get to magic. There's nothing like it to trigger a memory or invoke a mood.

Same, this performance chokes me up every time, gets to my soul.

Marvin was a prophet touched by the genius that tortured his soul and killed him.

Yes!!!!!

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BOY DO I AGREE...

Totally agree with you. Looking back to 1971 when I was just 15, it makes so much more sense to me today.

How can you say that and mean it? "There will never be " nobody knows what will be, before it's time ⏲️💯👌

Marvin is one in a billion. No one compares.

My favourite era of music, incomparable

At least not in our time

You just said a mouth full Sidney Davis.

thanks for sharing that Alan, Sweet as.

Quite a story...

Many people loose there MoMA and I lose mine this song touchedy soul

it was april 1983

Amen brother

That's right man, James was nasty. He was a virtuoso and a professional who displayed a "supreme" mastery of tone manipulation, timing, and note placement,

Jamerson indeed.

Was, also just wondering ,who's on Drum's .Exceptional.

James played bass from his emotional feelings, just from his heart. This is why he was a different bass player

@@vodekz1534 Correct.

I'm still a decade behind you. I keep trying to make my, Keep Livin' Oath alive. I have chronic pain, untreatable, and these songs remind me of a perfect body, can't ever get near normal. What keeps you shining??

@@beckyperez5282 What keeps me shining? It was a question you posed to sister Mary Siegel. But if you'll allow me, I'd like to add my two cents. What keeps me shining is much the same as you. I, too, have chronic health problems. The product of a life lived recklessly, in my case. At any rate, the cause is less important than the fact that the problems now exist. At least it is to me. Nonetheless, I still find myself smiling and enjoying just the state of existing whenever I hear music from my youth which reminds me of better times. So my answer is much the same as yours. Sorry I took so long to get to where you already started all of this. Thank you for allowing me this chance at introspection.

@@beeshor1 hi Willie, thank you for your response. It made my day. I'm sorry you also suffer. Good words with a sympathetic heart, you made me feel better. People have so much in common, if we could all only remember that! Many thanks.

I'm 63 and I'll love him forever too.

And I am 80 and love him to bits!!

Прекрасно...

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Great choice of word💯

@@genoory5090 Weri,weri qut...

You are correct ccth22!!! Just to have James on bass alone, is other worldly. Thanks for everything...much appreciated from Tim in Ontario, Canada!!

Hallo Ron . Es ist wirklich nicht zu glauben das wir schon 2024 schreiben. Aber was in der Welt los ist unbegreiflich. Marvin Gaye hat es einfühlsam beschrieben. Lg. X

generations to come is correct....people don t change

Mae Martin Sheen weather ☁️🌡️ call Martin Sheen Reverend Martin Luther King 👑 Breckenridge weather I said rest in peace brother

Totally agree

I’ve always heard the normal version of it, so I only heard this version a few months back but a absolutely one of the best songs of all time

Tenho como a mais intensa e impactante que já ouvi 🍺🍺🗿🗿

was in college in 1972..and how much depth he had..the album was/is incredible

It's great to hear vocals and real thought in his mission to build a social message which will never grow old and still be the prophetic and relevent for today's time.

The social struggles were at BYU?

What else can one expect from the best bassist in the world. Magic

All of them on that stage are bona fide geniuses

And mine to died so young rip marvin genuis man love to all xx

Me too

He died when I was 5 years old. He remains one of my favorite artists of all time.

Me too.

Growing up in the 80's, finding out about Marvin Gaye and still learning... 🙏

🍷🍷

Love. Love. Love.

Monumental.

To REALITY facts & truth

Well said Roland

Great taste in music 🎶

Look at the beautiful black families Oh I see Fathers F these white wingers who say otherwise

2024❤

Wowww u just discovered him! He literally raised Me! Check out My favorite album Hear My dear! Among many I love this one

I been listening to his music since I was 9 years old . I'm 62

Muy bonito que has descubierto la música de Marvin Gaye. Para mi, escuchar su voz es como entrar en el cielo. Lo escucho cada día y cada día la belleza de esta música me sorprende más. Un saludo desde Bolivia.

I'm 32 I started listening to him 20 years ago. Always have to revisit this timeless classic

@@rosalindwilliams4735 me too. I love him.

Amen...

@@shelleyw1837 x

Love your comment!❤😊🎹

@@mozellephilpart1726 x

Mr. Wright your words are beautiful and relevant and your words should be shared and I am a black 64yr old women listening to your words that crossed oceans if only everyone would hear and listen the could heal.Thank for making me think.

Absolutely 💯

The best!

You're absolutely right!! If a lot of ppl today heard him sing a capella their jaws would drop! There's even a video of him casually laying on a couch singing while practicing with his band!! Amazing talent he had! Im so fortunate he was part of my era and I got to see him perform Live several times.

Era grandioso, qué música y qué voz.

PERIODt! Although I steal get red faced with sexual healing. I ain't no prude but can't hear it around my kids. Lol

I'm white European and I can't thank African Americans enough for what they gave the world while they were deprived of so much. All this beauty and poetry came from so much pain, I don't think we even deserve to hear it. They made it all because they were sharing it in common experience. To me, blues, jazz, soul, funk, are the incarnation of turning the other cheek. "You give us hell and we give back pieces of heaven, how about that?". If there is one thing to keep from humanity it has to be all the music African Americans made with suffering and beyond that, dreams.

Facts🥰

Exactly right on point

Yes. I loathe phones. Bu Also without technology and phones....we could not enjoy all the GOLD on RU-vid.

We have lost our sight of God . God bless you

Lend a hand, in time my man always found one reaching and, those who be then with heart felt ways, oh to see again those minddful days so left are few those decades past, must reach to show those from few make many

death is a wicked enemie what..marvin would be singing now ....

Heb deze altijd geweten

Pp

@@margrethhoogeland4078 my bro

and not to mention that he was shot and killed by his father. Which gives his cry out to his father not to escalate a whole ominous and heavy feeling.

that was our time..and we were and have been betrayed by power hungry ass wipes.. I am 71 and know that I have till 85 without us being drugged into silence..I am glad that there of us who remember when freedom was not a reality and not a choice! !Please pas it on🥰

His father was a "old school" preacher and they got in an argument about the Sexual Healing Album. Great album that didn't sit well with his father. Shame really, 2 lives wasted.

@@charlesmoehrke3642 I thought that the conflict was about a disagreement between his father and mother and then he intervened. I also heard that tensions were already high in the household because of his 24hour activity at the home. Marvin was talking off of the top of head because of his drug abuse, paranoid and was potentially suicidal.

@@charlesmoehrke3642 uhhhh nah my dude. His father was a “no school” preacher who tried to lay down the law while dressed up in his wife’s clothes. A truly disturbed man who Marvin was ashamed of all his life.

@@unc1589 True. It was amazing how all of them in the household tolerated it for so long. Several sisters and a brother stood by and allowed it to continue. Marvin was always the defiant one. If he had not left home at an early age he might have ended up just like the two sisters......struggling.

Here's his date of his death again . April 1st. We thought it was a radio joke.

Well Said Brother Tyrone

Praise God!🙏🏾💖💕

Sadly the things Marvin was singing about have not changed. I spent my life angered by this shit, and it's hard to think this country has gotten worse.

Indeed.

@@jputterman26 yes the 60s up and down spoke of necessary change which never came close to fruition.

Amen, I love all of his music. God is my friend. I plan to do that with a friend at a program soon.

Biggest tragedy was his own dad shot him just because he was gay😖🥺 fkn tragic

Every time I hear this song I get a bit choked up.

Yes it is a masterpiece! A timeless masterpiece!😊❤🎹

Indeed……his voice is so pristine❕

Truly!

Verdade!!!

J'ai perçu la même chose en observant le regard et l'attention - voire ''la tension''... - émanant des spectateurs de ce concert !... Peace & Love ! Bisous de Bruxelles 😊 Marie.

Song paint a picture of 400 years of suffering

Yeah..you know girl

Yes he did 😊

His songs were living stories the real real LIFE

THIS WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL MAGICAL MAN HOW I LOVE U😇♥️🙏

Still wishing that a man would sound like this when he spoke to me. Not likely, since nobody has a voice like this. 🙄

It sure is 🤠

The whole album these tunes are off is a masterpiece. Not a bad tune on there.

Yes Shelia it sure is, poetry with amazing sound .beautiful song from a man with a soul...

Yes!! What a sad story behind Marvin Gaye 😢😞 We have carried a torch for him for years!! Very deserving

Definately.

insane....and that organ is crazy....the way it sits in the mix....crazy

Bassline is giving a Doctoral Dissertation

James Jameson on bass

@@MrZinnerman The Hook, baby!

Missed! RIP what he sang then about war is now again 😪 w racism war etc.. this man was a GIFT! Forever missed NEVER FORGOTTEN ❤❤🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

What did you think? Times would get better? Your fooling yourself. Things will only get worse and worse as time goes by

DITTO!!!

You are very right

@@kimberlydelima2910 9[⁹9999

Love➡️him & his music since the sixties & the gorgeous Tammie Terrell❤❤❤😘😘😘🥰⛔

It’s among the very finest albums ever made by humanity. Always will be a masterpiece.

You are so right the song of the century for sure ..

Over 10 million views, people are just speechless.

Smoky said he was the greatest artist he's ever known ! Now does Smoky know Mo Town ? I know he does !!!

I was just wondering that very same thing about so few comments. Oh well. I guess they just don't understand; They just don't know what's going on.......

@kenneth mucke You asked "why so few" right as the video was first posted - granted, 8 months later it is a bit odd there are only 151 comments - however, this has over 10 million views (which it deserves) - I'm sure many people don't feel the need to write "loved it" or "fantastic" (but there are 29,000 thumbs up - my question is ... who are the 394 people who pressed thumbs down????)

NOPE …. THE BEST MALE SINGER EVER !!!!!

Smooth as silk with soul

Love music

and by his own "pastor" father

I agree

Story is that his father finally agreed to come to this concert along with his mother. They say that early on he was always trying to go against his fathers wishes yet make him proud!

@@rayonasimmons2615 Yes,look how excited he seemed at the end of "What's happening brother." You could just feel the presence of sincerity!

I believe the audience shots were from various church services around the U.S This concert is supposed to be in Belgium........of course I could be wrong, but if my memory serves me right.........

They feeling it, it was a lot going on!😢

Compared to today audience sitting out there waiting to shoot ya

@@jacquelineperry4790 Or waving their stupid iPhones in front of your face until you feel like shooting them with the palm of your hand, a.k.a. bitch slapping the crap out of them.

Same here. Was in the Marines in 71-3 when this was big.

Same here ,Okinawa,Japan. I Loved soul music, even thou I'm a Honky.

This is still what's so today. Then it was such a song that helped me get through it all. I get tears with this and a few more by Marvin...he was his music...the soul and heart.

You are so right my friend. Greetings from Ireland

❤ I am 60 yrs. Old, been listening and loving Marvin since I was a kid. I have his I want you album 😊 going on 50 years old with the sugar shack poster.🖤🖤🖤

Me too

Cool!

We thought they never end.

AND ALSO FOR ME....76 years old now, remembering his music, the times in the band I was in and all those who have since come and gone. MISS it, miss them, miss Mr. GAYE, he was the man of his era back then, loved everything he ever did. RIP great musician.

@@gerryvanderzeypen1214 what a Nice words! Beautiful!

It amazes me that the special people I share my time with know this song well. A couple of years ago I had asked them if they knew "Whats Going On " by Marvin Gaye and they all did so we did the song.

love and peace for everybody. we need it more than ever now.

I read that it may have been a response to police brutality and violence he witnessed in an anti-war protest over the Vietnam war in Peoples Park, Berkeley, California, Bloody Thursday

thank you

Song is regards to the Vietnam War. Never should have been there! Over 50000 lives lost. And I still can ask why?? President Jimmy Carter said it best..."why are we sending our young men to wars??" But even to this day, non-VETERANS still don't honor our USA flag!!

AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH!

And Berry didn't want anything to do with it. Marvin convinced him, and a whole new era was born at Motown.

It’s ridiculous how good he sings live. Marvin was just different.

Best album i have ever heard

@@kevinthomas522 ..Spot on mate..for a whole album to have EVERY track so good and relevant is/was so rare..Marvin was a musical genius!🎵🎶🇬🇧🎷

A M E N 🌹

Yes

Monyn beautiful Lorraine 💞🙏🤙

True words!

Yes 1 an many will follow after

Jamerson was a genius on the bass!! I’m so greatful for us having him as one of our own!! RIH 🙏🏽

I am an old white woman but this man brought much great music 🎶 in my life!! I never noticed color 🤔

Oh Yeah...that bass...me..I'm lucky my son plays bass...James is his Guru....along with Mark KIng ...class

In Standing of Shadow of Motown, they say that Marvin Gaye insisted on having James Jamison record the bass parts. He was wiped out and still recorded his part lying down, a genius. RIP to all the musicians ,that are gone now.

Seexmovies

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Absolutely was the the best.

U better know it !!!!

Shukran

Hello Renee, how are you?

Amen 🙏🏽

SO TRUE!!

So true Craig. Here we are in 2022 and still dealing with the same issues. This song is truly one in a BILLION.. I never tire of listening to it. You are missed MARVIN

Impresionante lo más de por muchos años 😊😊😊

The Greatest Ever