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>> wait a minute, man, let me count it off. ♪ >> one, two, three, four. ♪ oh my, oh my ♪ ♪ there is too many of you dies." >> marvin touched the souls of millions and millions of people. ♪ oh mercy mercy me ♪ >> this was revolutionary. ♪
>> i wish he could have known the way that we love him right now with this record. >> imagine that. from conception, to the greatest album, your most favorite album of all time. >> of all time. >> there is a lot of hits came out of motown but only one "what's going on." only one of those and only one marvin gaye. >> marvin's voice doesn't go away. again and again and again and again, we keep asking ourself, what's going on?
>> he found techniques of using his voices and instruments that he had done two different lead vocals for his record. he was going to choose which one to use. the engineer mixing it of two voices together. he listened to the interplay of his voice. >> he was the first person that i knew that sang the background for himself. ♪ some loving here today ♪ >> he was stacking vocal in a way that we have not heard before. >> can you play your part? >> can i play it? >> on "what's going on." >> yeah. ♪ ♪ brother, brother, brother ♪ ♪ there is far too many of you dying ♪ >> all of that mus...
And how he says who really cares, it's almost angelic looks down in trying to figure out what is a solution. ♪ who really cares ♪ >> i am crying out for you to listen to me. this is more important than writing about i love you, i love you but in a different way. >> one of the things about detroit is, there is almost a church on every street corner. >> the album that begins in a party winds up in church. it is unapologetically spiritual. >> he goes into church and starts singing holy, holy. >> he's a church boy. it is about bringing people together and a sense of unity.
They were shun and outcast. >> shun. outcast. >> and these soldiers hear our songs. they're saying in mind, marvin wrote this to me. marvin is singing the gospel to me. ♪ brutality ♪ >> we hear it even with young folks now. >> the anthems. ♪ >> "what's going on" is a protest song. there is a great history of lady sings the blues. protest song. ♪ strange fruit hanging from the popular trees ♪ >> she's talking about black people being lynched in the streets around america. it was unheard of for her to have that kind of songs out and