WOW.

Anyone know what this is from? It looks as though he can hear the music playing, even if we can't.

have heard this song so many times, i can hear the Rhodes keyboard opening, and drum parts, transitions and breaks like he can...oh, now some strings..

I love these. Check this one out as well - http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-Aint-That-Peculiar-1965

Double WOW. What a brilliant talent he was.

I've got chills!

Isn't real.

He's lipsyncing. You can see it in several places. What he was doing it singing to his version of it...and this is just the vocal from the recording played without the background music. I mean, this is the EXACT vocal that's on the original recording.

Yes, it's very beautiful and haunting. But no, he wasn't singing this live acapella.

Goofball,

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Yes, a couple of places you can see the lips don't match the vocal track. In the words of Frank Zappa, "Big-o deal-o." It's Gaye's voice unadorned (singing without instrumentation). For him, without the vocal track. For us, a capella. And it's awesome!

definite chills...

Ahh, but Silvercord, what Goofball says is completely true though, he's not singing it live a capella, he is just lip synching. It is worth mentioning as with a recording you get as many tries as you like to get it right, and maybe Marvin wouldn't have been able to sing this well live on the show.

It's like today if you isolated a vocal track it'd not necessarily be the artist's voice unnadorned, because there's processing going on.

Sure, in this case, being the age of the recording, there wouldn't be much in the way of that, and it still shows that Marvin was a great singer, but it also shows he's an average lip syncher (I know which I'd rather be good at though).

of course it's not "live"; the man's been dead for 23 years now. It's still a capella and it still showcases Marvin's amazing voice.

It's like taking the guitar track from a well-known song and calling it a solo. It's not a solo. It's the guitar track.

What I'm curious about is how often we can hear him puffing air into the mike. Is all that noise in the original? Didn't they know how to stop that happening?

So what's the deal with the echo? Is it natural to have an echo if he's in the booth?

Probably an after-effect.

Yeah, it's very beautiful. He was awesome. But I'm bummed that it isn't real!

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