Christmas song marvin gaye

Marvin rushed out to his car clutching the cassette with my words and music in his hand. And the world can become a lonely place for those who dare to touch upon greatness. He glared at me silently for a few seconds.

I smiled as my fingers hit the keys on my new electric Rhodes piano with a little four bar introduction. Please, just give me what you got. " I Want to Come Home for Christmas " is a holiday song recorded by Marvin Gaye in The song was co-written by Gaye and Forest Hairston and was released on a posthumous Marvin compilation titled, The Marvin Gaye Collection 18 years later.

The song is finished, man. I mean, a Christmas song about our guys over there in that Vietnam War! Absolutely, we were real close to the deadline for cutting a Christmas record. Marvin could take a vague musical idea scribbled on notebook paper into the studio and come out with a song that would last forever.

Marvin Gaye I Want : The song was supposed to be released as a Tamla single that year but was withheld and did not see the light of day until ’s four-CD box set, The Marvin Gaye Collection

Personally, I just wanted to do something a little more to help get our guys home in time for Christmas. Let me think a minute. It is now included on one of the finest Christmas collections extantThe Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection [reviewed elsewhere in this issue] Herewith a personal account by Hairston of how the song came to be, what Marvin did with it, and its bittersweet aftermath.

Just a piano tape with the words and melody. I was sitting at my keyboard kicking the song around and still working on the chords, when Marvin just happened to drop by. No studio demo or nothing yet, baby brother. At that, I went into the words and pulled out the soulful feeling.

Yet still throughout the year, I often listen to a beautiful song that I wrote in It was a time when everyone across America and where I lived in Hollywood, California, was wearing a yellow ribbon in honor of our Vietnam prisoners of war. Nothing sounds quite like Christmas than hearing Ne-Yo cover "I Want To Come Home For Christmas"!

The tall, suave, good-looking fellow born in Washington, D. Quite obviously, for personal reasons, I always deeply think about Marvin around our Christmas holidays. But then, Marvin Gaye loved to laugh. I Want to Come Home for Christmas Lyrics: I'd give anything to see / A little Christmas tree / And to hear, hear the laughter / Of children playing in the snow / To kiss my baby, under the.

Yet, there was a melancholy ache inside that he could only explain with words and music. I mean hold it! Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want To Come Home For Christmas” this year!. When his life passed down through the years from the Moonglows to his last breath, I wonder if Marvin Gaye ever knew that he was a musical genius.

He always laughed about that. All the world should have listened to Marvin Gaye. But check it out for a second.