''Moods of Marvin Gaye'' is the seventh

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

Marvin Gaye Marvin Pentz Gay Jr., who also spelled his surname as Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo ar ...

, released on the

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label in 1966. The album was the result of a plan to establish Gaye as a strong album-oriented artis as well as a hit maker. Gaye was still uncomfortable with performing strictly R&B and had begun work on a standards album around this time after meeting musician Bobby Scott. However, the sessions were unsuccessful and he would successfully complete a standards album only in his later years (released posthumously as '' Vulnerable'' in 1997). For the time being, Gaye was winning more fans and had become a crossover teen idol. Six songs from ''Moods of Marvin Gaye'' were released as singles: impressively, all reached the Top 40 on the R&B singles chart and four of them reached the Top 40 on the Pop Singles Chart, a rare feat for a solo R&B artist even at that time. Gaye also scored his first two #1 R&B singles, " I'll Be Doggone" and " Ain't That Peculiar", both co-written by Gaye's friend, Berry Gordy's right-hand man

Smokey Robinson William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive director. He was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief ...

Track listing

Personnel

- lead vocals *

The Andantes The Andantes were an American female session group for the Motown record label during the 1960s. Composed of Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps, the group sang background vocals on numerous Motown recordings, including songs by Mar ...

- backing vocals (all of side 1; side 2, tracks 8-10) *

The Miracles The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and most influential groups ...

- additional backing vocals (on "I'll Be Doggone") * The Spinners - backing vocals (on "Hey Diddle Diddle") * Marv Tarplin - guitar (side 1, tracks 1, 3, 5 and 6) *

The Funk Brothers The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972. Its members are considered among the most successful groups of stud ...

- instrumentation {{Authority control 1966 albums Marvin Gaye albums Tamla Records albums Albums produced by Clarence Paul Albums produced by Brian Holland Albums produced by Lamont Dozier Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A. Albums produced by Smokey Robinson Albums arranged by Paul Riser