| Ain't That Peculiar | |
| Cover: | Ain't That Peculiar cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Marvin Gaye |
| Album: | Moods of Marvin Gaye |
| B-Side: | She's Got to Be Real |
| Released: | September 14, 1965 |
| Recorded: | May 5 & 12, 1965 |
| Studio: | Hitsville, USA, Detroit, Michigan |
| Genre: | Soul, pop, R&B |
| Length: | 2:50 |
| Label: | Tamla |
| Producer: | Smokey Robinson |
| Prev Title: | Pretty Little Baby |
| Prev Year: | 1965 |
| Next Title: | One More Heartache |
| Next Year: | 1966 |
"Ain't That Peculiar" is a 1965 song recorded by American soul musician Marvin Gaye for the Tamla (Motown) label.
The single was produced by Smokey Robinson, and written by Robinson, and fellow Miracles members Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin. "Ain't That Peculiar" features Gaye, with the Andantes on backing vocals, singing about the torment of a painful relationship.
Billboard said that "penetrating hard-drive dance beat backs another soulful, first-rate Gaye performance."[1] Cash Box described it as a "rollicking, rhythmic pop-blues romantic handclapper about a love-struck fella who can't get along without his gal."[2] Record World said that "The Detroit beat gets going in high speed on this marvy Gaye slice."[3]
The single was Gaye's second U.S. million seller successfully duplicating its predecessor "I'll Be Doggone", from earlier in 1965 by topping Billboards Hot R&B Singles chart in the fall of 1965, peaking at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] It became one of Gaye's signature 1960s recordings, and was his best-known solo hit before 1968's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
| Ain't That Peculiar | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Diamond Reo |
| Album: | Diamond Reo |
| B-Side: | (From Here To) Infinity |
| Recorded: | 1974 |
| Released: | 1975 |
| Genre: | hard rock, blues rock |
| Length: | 2:43 |
| Label: | Big Tree Records |
| Producer: | David Shaffer |
Hard rock band Diamond Reo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania released their version of "Ain't That Peculiar" in early 1975. The single peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 8 of the same year, becoming their only hit.[5] The Diamond Reo version is considered one of the first recordings to use the talk box.