Marvin gaye christmas album

The tall, suave, good-looking fellow born in Washington, D. Quite obviously, for personal reasons, I always deeply think about Marvin around our Christmas holidays. No studio demo or nothing yet, baby brother. He glared at me silently for a few seconds.

I mean hold it! And the world can become a lonely place for those who dare to touch upon greatness. Yet still throughout the year, I often listen to a beautiful song that I wrote in It was a time when everyone across America and where I lived in Hollywood, California, was wearing a yellow ribbon in honor of our Vietnam prisoners of war.

Nothing sounds quite like Christmas than hearing Ne-Yo cover "I Want To Come Home For Christmas"! Marvin rushed out to his car clutching the cassette with my words and music in his hand. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "Christmas In The City" on Discogs.

The song is finished, man. I mean, a Christmas song about our guys over there in that Vietnam War! Absolutely, we were real close to the deadline for cutting a Christmas record. Yet, there was a melancholy ache inside that he could only explain with words and music.

Christmas In The City :

All the world should have listened to Marvin Gaye. But then, Marvin Gaye loved to laugh. Personally, I just wanted to do something a little more to help get our guys home in time for Christmas.

{INSERTKEYS} [2] Gaye struggled with Motown for the song to be released as a single in tribute of Vietnam troops. Just a piano tape with the words and melody. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want To Come Home For Christmas” this year!.

Eighteen years after its recording and six years after Gaye's untimely death, the song was reissued on The Marvin Gaye. But check it out for a second. I smiled as my fingers hit the keys on my new electric Rhodes piano with a little four bar introduction.

I was sitting at my keyboard kicking the song around and still working on the chords, when Marvin just happened to drop by. Please, just give me what you got. Marvin could take a vague musical idea scribbled on notebook paper into the studio and come out with a song that would last forever.

When his life passed down through the years from the Moonglows to his last breath, I wonder if Marvin Gaye ever knew that he was a musical genius. He always laughed about that. Let me think a minute. It is now included on one of the finest Christmas collections extant , The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection [reviewed elsewhere in this issue] Herewith a personal account by Hairston of how the song came to be, what Marvin did with it, and its bittersweet aftermath.

He then hung out in a Hollywood recording studio nonstop around the clock for three days and three nights. At that, I went into the words and pulled out the soulful feeling. The song was to be part of a Christmas-themed album by Gaye, was issued the Tamla number TL and scheduled for release in late But the album was never released.{/INSERTKEYS}