NEW DOUBLE LP
New sealed copy. 50th Anniversary edition featuring the original stereo album, previously unreleased studio outtakes, and the original mono singles. Heavy stock tip-on jacket and custom printed inner sleeves. The records are in inner sleeves of Polypropylene. The two tip-on jackets are included separately.
What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by American soul singer, songwriter, and producer Marvin Gaye. It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Records-subsidiary label Tamla. Gaye recorded the album between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, and United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California. It was his first album to credit him as a producer and to credit Motown's in-house studio band, the session musicians known as the Funk Brothers.
The album was an immediate commercial and critical success, and came to be viewed by music historians as a classic of 1970s soul. In 2020, it was ranked number one on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
TRACKLIST:
A1 What's Going On
A2 What's Happening Brother
A3 Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
A4 Save The Children
A5 God Is Love
A6 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
B1 Right On
B2 Wholy Holy
B3 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
C1 What's Going On (Stripped Version)
C2 What's Going On (Mix 1 / No Strings Or Horns)
C3 What's Going On (Rhythm 'n' Strings Instrumental Mix)
C4 Symphony (Demo Version)
Original Mono Singles
D1 What's Going On
D2 God Is Love
D3 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
D4 Sad Tomorrows
D5 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
D6 Wholy Holy
