Hello Broadway | |
Type: | Cover album |
Artist: | Marvin Gaye |
Cover: | Marvinbroadway.jpg |
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 |
Prev Title: | Together (with Mary Wells) |
Prev Year: | 1964 |
Next Title: | How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You |
Next Year: | 1965 |
Hello Broadway is the fourth studio album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released in 1964. It is an album of standards and Broadway material.[1]
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.
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