Immediately after Berry Gordy founded Motown in 1959, he began loading up the label's roster with staggering talent. When Marvin Gaye joined Motown in 1960, he viewed himself as a mainstream pop singer along the lines of Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. [Photo above of Marvin Gaye]
Unfortunately for Gaye, his voice was a little too high, and his ambition…
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