Category: Marvin Gaye

MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: MARVIN GAYE, ’71!

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Marvin Gaye. From the photo-shoot taken for the album cover, "What's Going On."Photo by Jim Hendin, Detroit, 1971 (Click on image 2x for largest view).
Marvin Gaye. Captured here in a black and white still. April, 1971 . (To fully appreciate this image click on 2x for largest view).
Marvin Gaye's 1971 LP on the Motown Records Tamla label.
Marvin Gaye’s, iconic, ‘What’s Going On’ album was released on Motown’s Tamla label, May, 1971. The single, by the same name, was released earlier in January.
Marvin Gaye, 1971. Photo of Marvin Gaye was taken in Detroit for the LP, by photographer Jim Hendin.
Marvin Gaye, 1971. In preparing for the album’s cover layout, this photograph of Marvin was shot in Detroit by photographer Jim Hendin.

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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS: MARVIN GAYE ON TEEN BEAT!

Detroit Free Press: ‘TEEN BEAT’ Interviews Marvin Gaye, 1966

 

 

 

 

Motown recording artist Marvin Gaye circa 1966

During 1966, Detroit’s morning paper, the Detroit Free Press ran a weekly feature on Fridays called ‘Teen Beat.’

The feature article would comprise of interviews, photos, the music, the fads and anything else that was of special interest to the teenage scene in Detroit during that time.

Here is a rare, recorded interview Marvin Gaye gave to Teen Beat with Loraine Alterman. Loraine was the teen-editor for the Detroit Free Press when she interviewed Marvin Gaye for the Free Press column at the time.

Listen in once again as Marvin answered some of Alterman’s questions, such as,

What do you think of ‘Mod’ clothes and long hair? What’s your favorite record? Whose your favorite singer? If you were not a singer, what would you like to be? How do you like living in Detroit?

“The Teen Beat Song,” by Marvin Gaye, on Side A. The Marvin Gaye interview with Loraine Alterman, was on Side B.

In 1966, Marvin Gaye even recorded a song for the Detroit Free Press’ Teen Beat on Motown Records, but the recording was intended only for non-commercial distribution and was not to be sold. And we’ll include that M.G. rarity here as well. And who knows? Maybe you might have read about this same Marvin Gaye interview in Teen Beat one Friday morning a long time ago, just before you went off to school.

Teen Beat. Fridays. “Only in the morning Free Press.”

 

 

 

 

MARVIN GAYE * THE TEEN BEAT SONG * 1966

LORAINE ALTERMAN * INTERVIEW * MARVIN GAYE * 1966

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