{"id":163106,"date":"2019-09-16T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soulcentralmagazine.com\/?p=163106"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:46:24","slug":"marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-1971-classic-goat-long-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-1971-classic-goat-long-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Gaye &#8211; What&#8217;s Going On 1971 #CLASSIC #GOAT (Long Version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"copy-selection-div\">\n<h3>Facts about \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d was written by songwriters Renaldo \u201cObie\u201d Benson, Marvin Gaye, Al Cleveland.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d was produced by Marvin Gaye.<\/li>\n<li>The song was released on January 21, 1971 as the first single from Gaye\u2019s eleventh studio album of the same name (<em>What\u2019s Going On<\/em>). In 2003, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> placed the album at number six on their list of \u201c500 Greatest Albums of All Time\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The song is one of the most famous protest songs of all time.<\/li>\n<li>No official music video was ever produced for the song.<\/li>\n<li>Gaye initially wanted the song to be recorded by the Motown R&amp;B The Originals, but Benson suggested that Gaye sing the song.<\/li>\n<li>The song\u2019s background vocals were sung by Gaye along with American football players Mel Farr and Lem Barney.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the U.S. Billboard R&amp;B\/Soul Singles.<\/li>\n<li>In 2004, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> placed the song at number 4 on its list of the \u201c500 Greatest Songs of All Time\u201d. In 2010, the song was placed at the same position on the same list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songmeaningsandfacts.com\/meaning-of-whats-going-on-by-marvin-gaye\/\">https:\/\/www.songmeaningsandfacts.com\/meaning-of-whats-going-on-by-marvin-gaye\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts about \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d was written by songwriters Renaldo \u201cObie\u201d Benson, Marvin Gaye, Al Cleveland. \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d was produced by Marvin Gaye. The song was released on January 21, 1971 as the first single from Gaye\u2019s eleventh studio album of the same name (What\u2019s Going On). In 2003, Rolling Stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,41,66,150,141,38,40],"tags":[719],"class_list":["post-163106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artshistoryculture","category-community-press-release","category-featured-post","category-inspirational","category-positive-change","category-scm-live","category-soul-central-tv","tag-marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-1971-classic-goat-long-version","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}