1965
I'LL BE DOGGONE * MARVIN GAYE * TAMLA 54112 * USA
Marvin Gaye's first release for 1965, issued in February that year along with Brenda Holloway's When I'm Gone. Motown only released one track that month, but it was enough: The Supremes Stop In The Name Of Love, Gordy put out: No Where To Run (seen) by Martha And The Vandellas, and Earl Van Dyke's All For You came out on Soul. There was enough there from Berry Gordy's house of music to have kept the world warm through that cold February in Detroit 1965.. Still things weren't all good in Detroit that month . . . on Feb. 14, 1965, the day his home in New York City was firebombed, Malcolm X delivered one of his last major speeches at Ford Auditorium in Detroit. "I only say that we Negroes should defend ourselves against the violence of others," he declared. Seven days later, gunmen assassinated him in New York. He was 39.
Meanwhile back in the big wide world (it wasn't 'global' then) operation "Rolling Thunder" (sound familiar?) the air-strike against North Vietnam began its murderous advance in mid-February . . . . it lasted 3 years!
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