Hello Broadway

Hello Broadway
Studio album by
Marvin Gaye
ReleasedNovember 12, 1964
Recorded1964
StudioGraystone Ballroom, Detroit, MI
GenreSoul/Broadway
Length32:22
LabelTamla
TS 259
ProducerHal Davis, Marc Gordon
Marvin Gaye chronology
Together (with Mary Wells)
(1964) 		Hello Broadway
(1964) 		How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Record Mirror[1]

Hello Broadway is the fourth studio album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released in 1964. It is an album of standards and Broadway material.[2]

Released during the middle of Gaye's coming-of-age as Motown's premier male solo star, the album showcases more of Gaye's personal desire to be a Nat King Cole/Frank Sinatra styled crooner rather than the R&B hitmaker Motown was grooming him into. Hello Broadway and Gaye's When I'm Alone I Cry albums were released at a time when Motown executives wanted Gaye to record for strictly the young R&B crowds rather than capture a more mature audience. It would take Gaye years to craft an album of standards that were more of his making, rather than the Cole-styled vocals he laid during this earlier period.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hello Broadway" (Ronald Miller, William O'Malley) – 3:11
  2. "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 3:03
  3. "The Party's Over" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 3:02
  4. "On the Street Where You Live" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:24
  5. "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 3:40
  6. "My Kind of Town" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:36

Side Two

  1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 3:36
  2. "This Is the Life" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 2:36
  3. "My Way" (Richard Jacques, Ronald Miller) – 2:53
  4. "Hello Dolly!" (Jerry Herman) – 2:53
  5. "Walk on the Wild Side" (Mack David, Elmer Bernstein) – 2:18

Personnel

  • Marvin Gaye – vocals
  • Gene Page – arranger
  • Jerry Long – arranger (on ‘Walk On the Wild Side)

See also

References

  1. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (30 September 1965). "Marvin Gaye: Hello Broadway" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 238. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Hello Broadway – Marvin Gaye | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 November 2016.