Hello Broadway
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| Hello Broadway | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | November 12, 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 1964 | |||
| Studio | Graystone Ballroom, Detroit, MI | |||
| Genre | Soul/Broadway | |||
| Length | 32:22 | |||
| Label | Tamla TS 259 | |||
| Producer | Hal Davis, Marc Gordon | |||
| Marvin Gaye chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Record Mirror |   [1] |
Hello Broadway is the fourth studio album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released in 1964. It is an album of standards and Broadway material.[2]
Released during the middle of Gaye's coming-of-age as Motown's premier male solo star, the album showcases more of Gaye's personal desire to be a Nat King Cole/Frank Sinatra styled crooner rather than the R&B hitmaker Motown was grooming him into. Hello Broadway and Gaye's When I'm Alone I Cry albums were released at a time when Motown executives wanted Gaye to record for strictly the young R&B crowds rather than capture a more mature audience. It would take Gaye years to craft an album of standards that were more of his making, rather than the Cole-styled vocals he laid during this earlier period.
Track listing
[edit]Side One
- "Hello Broadway" (Ronald Miller, William O'Malley) – 3:11
- "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 3:03
- "The Party's Over" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 3:02
- "On the Street Where You Live" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:24
- "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 3:40
- "My Kind of Town" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:36
Side Two
- "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 3:36
- "This Is the Life" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 2:36
- "My Way" (Richard Jacques, Ronald Miller) – 2:53
- "Hello Dolly!" (Jerry Herman) – 2:53
- "Walk on the Wild Side" (Mack David, Elmer Bernstein) – 2:18
Personnel
[edit]- Marvin Gaye – vocals
- Gene Page – arranger
- Jerry Long – arranger (on ‘Walk On the Wild Side)
See also
[edit]- List of 1964 albums
- On Broadway, a similar recording by fellow Motown act Four Tops
References
[edit]- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (30 September 1965). "Marvin Gaye: Hello Broadway" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 238. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "Hello Broadway – Marvin Gaye | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
