Sunday, December 1, 2019

“Baby I’m For Real” #14 11/29/1969

We’ve talked many times about the Andantes, Motown’s often-uncredited female backing singers. The Originals were their male equivalent. They tried for years with no success until Marvin Gaye promised he’d find them a hit song. So he and his wife Anna wrote this #1 soul chart smash, with Marvin as producer. Originals member Freddie Gorman co-wrote “Please Mister Postman” for the Marvelettes; Gaye was the drummer on that legendary track.


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