{"id":260,"date":"2010-02-04T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=260"},"modified":"2014-08-01T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:42:48","slug":"marvin-gaye-one-more-heartache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Gaye – One More Heartache"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Marvin Gaye – One More Heartache <\/em><\/span>
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Greetings all. <\/strong>
\nThe end of the week is upon us (like a lion on an impala<\/em>) and in the spirit of great forces of nature, I bring you one of my favorite 45s by the mighty Marvin Gaye.<\/strong>
\nThe first time I heard the song \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 was probably 25 years ago at the height of the mod\/garage revival, when it arrived in my ears via a cover version by UK R&Beatsters the Artwoods.<\/strong>
\nRemembered as much for what their members went on to do (Jon Lord, Keef Hartley<\/strong>) as their fantastic music, the Artwoods (named for their singer Art Wood<\/strong>, brother of Face\/Rolling Stone Ron<\/strong>) layed down some serious transitional heat, updating American R&B for a modernist audience. It was on the greatest hits lp \u2018100 Oxford Street\u2019 that I first heard a number of amazing songs that I would later discover to be covers of artists like Solomon Burke<\/strong> (\u2018Keep Looking\u2019), Benny Spellman <\/strong>(\u2018I Feel Good\u2019) and of course Marvin Gaye.
\nThough I loved the song \u2018One More Heartache\u2019, and was aware that it had been done originally by Gaye, it was another 20 years before I actually got my hands on a copy of the original.
\nWhen I did, and the needle hit the wax my mind was good and truly blown.
\nThis, my friends is because Marvin Gaye\u2019s recording of \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 is nothing less than a monument to the greatness of soul music. Recorded in 1965, \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 \u2013 written by Warren \u2018Pete\u2019 Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin, Robert Rogers<\/strong> and Ronald White<\/strong> \u2013 was a minor hit in the spring of 1966, scraping the outer limits of the Pop Top 40. Why it wasn\u2019t a bigger hit may have as much to do with its dark message as it does with the huge surplus of musical competition at the time. A quick look at a chart (see below) from almost exactly 44 years ago reveals pop and soul classics jamming up the charts so thickly that even a record as mighty as \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 was unable to fight its way closer to the top.
\nIt may also have something to do with the record sounding oddly familiar.
\nThe day I got my hands on this particular 45 I digi-ma-tized it, and then proceeded to listen to it at least a dozen times on the old MP3 delivery device, during which time it dawned on me that \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 is something of a musical restructuring of Gaye\u2019s hit from the previous year \u2018Ain\u2019t That Peculiar\u2019. The framework of the song is similar and at times \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 sounds as if the composers of both songs (who by the way are the same, and were also all members of the Miracles<\/strong>) took the bright, upbeat \u2018Ain\u2019t That Peculiar\u2019 and rewrote it as a darker, minor key, mirror version of itself.
\nMusically, the record (produced by Robinson) is incredible, built \u2013 like a James Brown<\/strong> side \u2013 on interlocking bits of musical clockwork, with a chiming guitar riff (played by Marv Tarplin) over a pulsing organ (the master Earl Van Dyke<\/strong>), snapping snare drum, finger snaps, tambourine and eventually saxophone. Gaye\u2019s vocal is a masterpiece of soulful pleading, with a lyric that at times sounds like a not too distant cousin of Titus Turner\u2019s <\/strong>\u2018All Around the World\u2019.
\nNo matter how you slice it, \u2018One More Heartache\u2019 is a heavy<\/em> record. If you know someone who\u2019s concept of soul is lacking, you need only lock them in a room with this record and a turntable, refusing to let them out until they \u2018get it\u2019.
\nI know you\u2019ll dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n

WMCA Countdown Survey for Week of February 10, 1966
\nFABULOUS 57 <\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Lightnin’ Strikes – Lou Christie
\n2. Uptight – Stevie Wonder
\n3. A Well Respected Man – The Kinks
\n4. Don’t Mess With Bill – Marvelettes
\n5. These Boots Are Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra
\n6. My Love – Petula Clark
\n7. No Matter What Shape – T-Bones
\n8. My World Is Empty Without You – Supremes
\n9. Barbara Ann – The Beach Boys
\n10. Working My Way Back To You – Four Seasons
\n11. We Can Work It Out\/Day Tripper – Beatles
\n12. Going To A Go-Go – Miracles
\n13. Lies – Knickerbockers
\n14. Ballad Of The Green Berets – Sgt. Barry Sadler
\n15. Love Makes The World Go Round – Dean Jackson
\n16. Listen People – Herman’s Hermits
\n17. Hurt Yourself – Frankie Valli
\n18. Cryin’ Time – Ray Charles
\n19. Stop! – The Moody Blues
\n20. Homeward Bound – Simon & Garfunkel
\n21. 634-5789 – Wilson Pickett
\n22. In My Room – Verdelle Smith
\n23. Husbands And Wives – Roger Miller
\n24. Elusive Butterfly – Bob Lind
\n25. I Fought The Law – Bobby Fuller Four
\n26. Batman Theme – The Marketts
\n27. Little Bit Of Soap – The Exciters
\n28. Call Me – Chris Montez
\n29. Take Me For What I’m Worth – Searchers
\n30. The Duck – Jackie Lee
\n31. Like A Baby – Len Barry
\n32. Night Time – Strangeloves
\n33. When Liking Turns To Loving – Ronnie Dove
\n34. At The Scene – Dave Clark V
\n35. Just Like Me – Paul Revere & The Raiders
\n36. Since I Lost The One I Love – The Impressions
\n37. Somewhere There’s A Someone – Dean Martin
\n38. This Golden Ring – The Fortunes
\n39. It’s Too Late – Bobby Goldsboro
\n40. Up And Down – The McCoys
\n41. It Won’t Be Wrong – The Byrds
\n42. This Can’t Be True – Eddie Holman
\n43. My Baby Loves Me – Martha & The Vandellas
\n44. Keep On Running – Spencer Davis Group
\n45. Whenever She Holds You – Patty Duke
\n46. Promise Her Anything – Tom Jones
\n47. Why Can’t You Bring Me Home – Jay & The Americans
\n48. This Old Heart Of Mine – Isley Brothers
\n49. One More Heartache – Marvin Gaye
\n50. The Cheater – Bob Kuban
\n51. California Dreamin’ – Mamas & Papas
\n52. Baby Scratch My Back – Slim Harpo
\n53. Custody – Patti Page
\n54. You’ll Be Needin’ Me – Lettermen
\n55. Shake Me, Wake Me – Four Tops
\n56. My Prayer – Johnny Thunder
\n57. Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful<\/strong><\/p>\n

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