Hello Broadway

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Hello Broadway is Marvin Gaye's fourth studio album and was released in 1964. It consists of standards and numbers from Broadway musicals. In those years Gaye was growing into Motown's most important male solo star.

The record shows that he himself would rather have been a crooner in the style of Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra than the R&B hitmaker that Motown wanted him to be. The label's management wanted him to target a young R&B audience, not an adult one. Gene Page made the arrangements. This places the album in a series in which Gaye still strongly imitates Cole's voice. It would be years before he made a standards album that was more his own. A comparable record by another Motown group is On Broadway by the Four Tops.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Hello Broadway3:13Apple Music ↗
2. 2People3:15Apple Music ↗
3. 3The Party's Over3:05Apple Music ↗
4. 4On the Street Where You Live2:27Apple Music ↗
5. 5What Kind of Fool Am I?3:43Apple Music ↗
6. 6My Kind of Town2:38Apple Music ↗
7. 7The Days of Wine and Roses3:38Apple Music ↗
8. 8This Is the Life2:38Apple Music ↗
9. 9My Way2:55Apple Music ↗
10. 10Hello Dolly2:55Apple Music ↗
11. 11Walk On the Wild Side2:20Apple Music ↗

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