FRANKIE GAYE & MARY WELLS - Once Upon A Time
Back"ONCE UPON A TIME" - Released 1964. FRANKIE GAYE - (born Frances Gay, November 15th 1941 - December 30th 2001) was a singer and younger brother of music legend Marvin Gaye. Born the son of minister Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr. and domestic Alberta Cooper in Washington, D.C., Frankie watched as his eldest brother became a music superstar. His horrific accounts of his time during his tenure Vietnam War (which included being a radio deejay) would lead to become his oldest brother's biggest inspiration when he based his classic 1971 concept album What's Going On to his brother's travels just as he returned back to the United States. Frankie began his music career composing the soundtrack to the 1972 film, Penitentiary. He would spend time singing on and off for his brother onstage as part of Marvin's touring band. During one of Marvin's first tours back from a six year hiatus in 1973, Marvin had Frankie come on the stage to fool fans of his that Frankie was actually Marvin. When Marvin showed up, fans were understandably confused about the brothers' eerie similarities to each other. Frankie's most notable moment on any of Marvin's records was during the live show at Marvin's Palladium concert in London in 1977. He released two singles, "Extraordinary Girl" in 1989 and "My Brother" in 1990 and released the album of the same name on the latter year for Motorcity Records. In 2000, he began composing the autobiography depicting the times and travails of his life with his older brother titled Marvin Gaye: My Brother. There's no telling on whether or not he was done with the biography, when on December 30, 2001, Gaye died of cancer at the age of 60. The book was finally released in 2003 to mixed reviews. Marvin's youngest child, Frankie Christian Gaye (born in November 1975), was named after Frankie. MARY WELLS - Mary Esther Wells (May 13th 1943 July 26th 1992) was an American singer who sung a repertoire that included R&B, soul, rock 'n' roll, doo-wop, funk and disco and whom defined the early sound of Motown Records in the early sixties. Along with Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Supremes, and The Four Tops, Mary was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America bridging the color lines in music at the time.With a string of hit singles mainly composed by Smokey Robinson - among them "Two Lovers" (1962), the Grammy-nominated "You Beat Me to the Punch" (1962) and her signature hit, "My Guy" (1964) - she became recognized as "The First Lady of Motown" until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity.
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