| Moods of Marvin Gaye | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Marvin Gaye |
| Cover: | Moods-of-marvin-gaye.jpg |
| Released: | May 23, 1966 |
| Recorded: | Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit |
| Genre: | Soul |
| Length: | 36:12 |
| Label: | Tamla |
| Producer: | Smokey Robinson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Clarence Paul |
| Prev Title: | A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Take Two (with Kim Weston) |
| Next Year: | 1966 |
Moods of Marvin Gaye is the seventh studio album by Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla label in 1966.
The album was the result of a plan to establish Gaye as a strong album-oriented artist 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.