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marv2
Robb and Quinn I love both of your stories and choices. Marvin Gaye had been making records long before I was old enough to afford to buy them. My parents bought his records starting with "Stubborn Kind of Fella", but it was "Pride and Joy" that made me a fan as a young kid. I loved that record then and now. I loved the call and response between Marvin and the Vandellas, the rockin', gospelish rhythm track and especially how it starts out with the piano tickling away.
As far as my first official purchase of a Marvin Gaye record with my own money, it was "Trouble Man" the single. It just sounded cool to me. It took me probably a couple of decades to learn the part of that record where does like this rapid fire rap of
"I know some places and I've seen some faces
I've got good connections they dig in my directions
What people say that's okay
They don't bother me
Ready to make it, don't fool with no women
Don't care 'bout no trouble got myself together
I feel a kind of protection is all around me
This I know baby...."
Whew!
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