Sold Date: November 22, 2021
Start Date: October 6, 2021
Final Price: $149.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 2576
Buyer Feedback: 17

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL, SUPER CLEAN, ORIGINAL 1st PRESSING OF THIS SOUL MASTERPIECE.
MARVIN GAYE  -  WHAT'S GOING ON  -  TAMLA - TS-310
BOTH SIDES OF THE RECORD AND BOTH LABELS ARE IN VERY GOOD +/++ CONDITION, WITH ONLY A VERY FEW MINOR SURFACE SCUFFS 
THE GATE-FOLD COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION-  NO WRITING, NO TAPE OR STICKERS, NO CUTS OR HOLES, NO SPINE DISTRESS. THERE IS SOME VERY MINOR AGE DISCOLORATION.
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 ORIGINAL YELLOW AND BROWN TAMLA LABEL, LATE 60’S TO MID-70’S STYLE

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·       ORIGINAL FIRST VERSION OF THE COVER WITH THE BROWN (SEPIA) BACKGROUND ON THE INSIDE GATEFOLD, NOT THE LATER VERSION WITH THE PALE BLUE BACKGROUND.

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-2D/-2D'.

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What's Going On is not only Marvin Gaye's masterpiece, it's the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices, a man finally free to speak his mind and so move from R&B sex symbol to true recording artist. With What's Going On, Gaye meditated on what had happened to the American dream of the past -- as it related to urban decay, environmental woes, military turbulence, police brutality, unemployment, and poverty. These feelings had been bubbling up between 1967 and 1970, during which he felt increasingly caged by Motown's behind-the-times hit machine and restrained from expressing himself seriously through his music. Finally, late in 1970, Gaye decided to record a song that the Four Tops' Obie Benson had brought him, "What's Going On." When Berry Gordy decided not to issue the single, deeming it uncommercial, Gaye refused to record any more material until he relented. Confirmed by its tremendous commercial success in January 1971, he recorded the rest of the album over ten days in March, and Motown released it in late May. Besides cementing Marvin Gaye as one of the most important artists in pop music, What's Going On was far and away the best full-length to issue from the singles-dominated Motown factory, and arguably the best soul album of all time.