Hello Broadway

Infobox Album | Name = Hello Broadway
Type = Studio album
Artist = Marvin Gaye


Released = November 12 1964
Recorded = 1964 Graystone Ballroom, Detroit
Genre = Soul/Broadway
Length = 33:20
Label = Tamla
Producer = Hal Davis, Marc Gordon
Arranger = Jerry Long Reviews =
Last album = "Together" (with Mary Wells)
(1964)
This album = "Hello Broadway"
(1964)
Next album = "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You"
(1965) |

"Hello Broadway" was an 1964 album of standards and Broadway material recorded by soul singer Marvin Gaye.

Released during the middle of Gaye's coming-of-age as Motown's premier male solo star, the album showcases more of Gaye's personal desire to be a Nat King Cole/Frank Sinatra styled crooner rather than the R&B hitmaker Motown was grooming him into. "Hello Broadway" and Gaye's "When I'm Alone I Cry" albums were released at a time when Motown executives wanted Gaye to record for strictly the young R&B crowds rather than capture a more mature audience. It would take Gaye years to craft an album of standards that were more of his making, rather than the Cole-styled vocals he laid during this earlier period.

Track listing

#"Hello Broadway"
#"People"
#"The Party's Over"
#"On The Street Where You Live"
#"What Kind of Fool Am I?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
#"My Kind of Town"
#"Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer)
#"This Is the Life"
#"My Way"
#"Hello Dolly!" (Jerry Herman)
#"Walk on the Wild Side"