Stories of Standards—What's Going On
Linda Hillshafer Share Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “What’s Going On?”. Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am. Stories of Standards is sponsored by ListenUp. First recorded by Marvin Gaye in June of 1970, “What’s Going On” was based on an incident witnessed by Renaldo “Obie” Benson, a Four Tops singer who saw peaceful demonstrators being attacked by police in Berkeley, CA, leading him to ask “What’s going on here?”. He discussed this with a friend, songwriter Al Cleveland, who w...
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