Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Original Single Version)

One of the greatest songs of all time and one of the most powerful messages ever delivered by any musician...

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• Marvin
• Gaye
• What's
• Going
• On
• Mono
• Original
• Single
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• 1970
• 1971
• Tamla
• Motown
• Soul
• Pop
• R&B

[timmy841212]

@summersbr1 Yeah that's what I took from what happened on that day. I don't condone a parent doing that. That's as low as the son shooting the parents. Just shot him in cold blood all because he was protecting his mother. smh

[Silva007ish]

i can't stop listening to this. 1972 seems so long ago and yet lyric applies to today.it is a timeless song and Marvin Gaye was an amazing arti

st and humanitarian.

[fliney2j]

this song is still a sign of the times today ,,,, its a great song and he was a great singer too!

[EjectSpeed]

thot he always said there was a grenade stuck to him @1:09

[cudidrizzyjcole]

This is an amazing song, however, the video you made is shitty and annoying ijs

[floresebu]

Rolling Stone voted this the 4th best rock song EVER

[cdjblue52]

I remember when I first heard this song at a dance at a frat house during my freshman yr of college. I didn't know anything about the lyric, just loved the way it sounded. It's my favorite song ever.

[Claustrophelia]

A fair amount of wishy-washy sentimentality here. I love this song but let's not forget the left do not run the franchise on enlightenment, nor have the right cornered the market on morality. Additionally it might be time for the species on the whole to accept it's nasty nature and shed this "divine" charade once and for all... once we get comfortable with this hideous condition perhaps we will inflict less harm on our environments; mental and physical?

[cindy85123]

Timmy 841212. You rock. Beautiful song. Beautiful video. Peace & Luv coming your way my friend~ ♥

[vase33788]

@fliney2j I so much agree!!! So true today and yesterday.

[brownebrown100]

VERY NICE SONG LOVE IT

[strong167]

Love the vid sir keep up the good work!

[MsKoali]

I love this whole list to the right here - Marvin Gaye Billy Paul IsaacHayes Chaka Khan-Chaka Khan lol.

[MsKoali]

The only way I could deal with this song was to DANCE to it. DANCE AND DANCE to it ! Am I right? Powerful - and the fade out fake out - too much-although not the first time that trick was used - sure is effective. Marvin was serious.

[MsKoali]

@11BXRet Just keep looking up. It's out of our hands.

[sauquoit13456]

On this date in 1971 {Feb. 20th} "What's Going On" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} and spent 15 weeks in the Top 100.

Ranked 21st on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1971 chart...

Reached #1 on Billboard's R&B chart

Cyndi Lauper covered it, her version reached #12

Was the 1st of 3 straight records by Mr. Gaye to make the Top 10; this one, "Mercy Mercy Mercy" {#4}, & "Inner City Blues" {#9}...

[bushidobrother06]

this song came out the year i was born and i gotta wonder what's changed and what's it say about America we've been in a constant state of war for the last 40 years. it's takin' it's toll people are getting fed up with it it think

[bushidobrother06]

@11BXRet they are

[11BXRet]

I think times are getting worst, and no one really knows what's going on. We are losing sight.

[StatenIzzy1]

@stand4righteous oh shit wow thats really interesting thank you...i can see why barry would say that...because they dont like when artists get political..and then they get killed...who knows ..but thank you

[stand4righteous]

@StatenIzzy1 When Marvin was with Motown and played this song for Berry Gordy, he told Marvin it was the worst song he'd ever heard. Anna told Marvin he was crazy if he didn't put it out. Gordy wanted Marvin to continue to sing the basic love songs he'd been singing for Motown. He told him no one wanted to hear about war and pollution. WRONG! Thank God, Marvin didn't listen and stepped out. I wasn't a Marvin before this came out. After this, I was hooked.

[StatenIzzy1]

@stand4righteous wait why wasnt the song guna get put out?

[sisterchristian1961]

@susanadelorenzo Love Wins.

[stand4righteous]

@jiggsriggs Thanks for serving.

[stand4righteous]

Thank God Marvin didn't listen to Berry Gordy or we would have never heard this song. Thanks MG for taking a leap of faith and stepping into your own. Praying you're resting in peace.

[TheBobbyw]

why is not this video and or song not played for the war that is whats going on today 2/10/12

[occum28]

@fliney2j ...one of the greatest of my time...and yours?..