Frankie Gaye And Kim Weston - It Takes Two

PLEASE READ THIS. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. Up to today, I have put three hundred and eleven videos up here on YouTube, and they have been viewed nearly two million times, according to my account information on my home page. Two million hits is, I feel, a pretty amazing achievement for the music that I love. Well basically, if my hundreds of long long hours putting up free videos for you to watch, have brought you any form of enjoyment or satisfaction at all, then PLEASE PLEASE, I ask you, no I BEG you to do just one thing in return. PLEASE support the "Yesterday And Tomorrow" album, and show me that you care about this music. I have put my heart and soul, and thirty three years of my career into this album, and we're flying blind, doing it ourselves and without a distributor. Unless people take the trouble to go to our website, which at the moment has a direct link to the album on E-Bay, or unless people go onto amazon.co.uk and search for the album, they are simply not going to find it in their local shop. I put a huge amount of loving care into these videos on YouTube, and nearly two million hits prove it's not in vain. Surely you can spend just fifteen pounds of your money and buy it, just to show me I am not wasting my time. PLEASE do this for me, PLEASE. It's painful and heartwrenching to see it sell so little, mainly because it's not easily available. So PLEASE show me your support, and I shall continue to do my bit to bring you this music. I ask you not to ignore this plea - I need to see a sign that people care. I would hate to be so disheartened that I remove all my 311 videos from here. So just this once, all I ask of you is to do your bit, and please buy this one CD.
This was the one time I teamed up Kim Weston with Marvin Gaye's brother Frankie, to recreate Marvin and Kim's hit, "It Takes Two", and watching this now, it's so hard to believe that he passed away a few years later. When we all first went to Los Angeles, in April 1989, to have a second public reunion there of all the California based former Motown artists, immediately following the one we'd just done in Detroit, Frankie came along, and we were all shocked and numbed by how much he looked like his late brother Marvin. So I had the brilliant idea of teaming him up with Kim for them to re-do "It Takes Two". Frankie was Marvin's younger brother , and had been the inspiration for "What's Going On", and indeed Frankie sang on that, alongside Marvin, and if you listen closely you can hear both voices on there. Frankie and his wife Irene were actually in the house when Frankie's father shot Marvin dead, in 1984. Anyway, Frankie seemed such an obvious and necessary addition to Motorcity. In 1990, Frankie and Kim got to perform this classic to a huge crowd on the rooftop of the enormous Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit, on a hot humid summer Saturday night, after it had poured down all day. I was sitting next to Berry Gordy's sister, Esther Edwards, and she gasped in shock when Frankie appeared, and said it was like seeing a ghost. Sadly Frankie, just like his brother Marvin, has now passed on to that soul concert in the sky, but I shall always be so proud of working with him. I had known Kim Weston since 1969, because very close to my sixteenth birthday, in 1969, my parents took me to the USA for the first time. We changed planes in New York to go to Los Angeles. Sitting across the aisle was a smart affluent black man with an attache case containing assorted vinyl 45s. My Mother asked the stewardess to find out if he was a soul singer, and it turned out he was Motown songwriting legend and head of A&R, Mickey Stevenson. Needless to say, I spent the whole journey chatting to him, and at the airport his wife, Kim Weston, met him off the plane. I was fascinated by her - a Motown legend - so suave and glamorous. She arranged to pick me up at the hotel next day, and took me shopping all over Los Angeles, and Mickey arranged for me to go to Motown's West Coast warehouse, and buy singles for my collection at wholesale prices. Eighteen years later, my friend Henry Sellars was in touch with Kim, and brought her over for me to record - the very very first former Motown artist to start the Motorcity project. She vividly remembered me from being sixteen, although she still swears to this day that I was fifteen. We recorded a new Motownesque song, "Signal Your Intention", and Motorcity was born.

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• Motorcity
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• Detroit
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• Girl-Groups
• Soul
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• Classic
• Sixties

[salviati]

Oh my god !!! What year was this recorded ??

How fabulous !

[IanLevine]

Recorded in 1989. This video was filmed in 1990.

[artwleb]

Marvin Gaye died in 1984....am I missing something?

[IanLevine]

Yes you are - this is his brother Frankie, who is also dead now, but died long after Marvin.

[mschest]

I have always loved Kim Weston's voice. Beautiful woman, with a beautiful voice.

[Quiltsalad]

I love it.

[allen6924]

WONDERFUL...EXCELLENT!

[eplafan]

Kim Weston .... one of the BEST, if not THE Best, voices to ever come out of Motor City! Love, love, love this woman!

[pljms]

Heard Kim Weston on American radio about a montha ago and she stated that she was in the process of writing her auto-biography.

[allwayssoul]

me too x

[pljms]

Interesting to hear Kim Weston interviewed on BBC radio a few nights ago and admitting to her feelings of jealousy at the success Marvin Gaye went on to have with Tammi Terrell after Kim had left Motown.

[68NYC]

Wow...

Really nice!!

I'm late finding out about this one.

~Thanks!!