- I'll Be Doggone
Infobox Single
Name = I'll Be Doggone
Background = khaki
Artist =Marvin Gaye
from Album =Moods of Marvin Gaye
B-side =
Released = January1965
Format = 7" single
Recorded =Hitsville, USA (Studio A),Detroit, Michigan , 1964
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:50
Label = Tamla
Writer =William "Smokey" Robinson
Warren Moore
Marvin Tarplin
Producer =William "Smokey" Robinson
Chart position = * #8 US Pop Singles
* #1 US Soul Singles
Last single = "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) " (1964)
This single = "I'll Be Doggone" (1965)
Next single = "Pretty Little Baby " (1965)"I'll Be Doggone" is a
1965 song recorded by American soul singerMarvin Gaye and released on the Tamla label. The song talks about how a man tells his woman that he'll be "doggone" about simple things but if she did him wrong that he'd be "long gone".It became his first million selling record and his first number-one single on the
R&B charts staying there for two weeks and was the first song Gaye recorded withSmokey Robinson as one of the songwriters of the record.The song was co-written by Robinson's fellow Miracles membersPete Moore &Marv Tarplin . This song gave Marvin his third top ten pop hit where it peaked at number-eight on the pop singles chart, with that number matched by his follow-up record, "Ain't That Peculiar ".Credits
*Lead vocals by
Marvin Gaye
*Background vocals byThe Miracles (Claudette Rogers Robinson ,Pete Moore ,Ronnie White , andBobby Rogers ) &The Andantes (Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks and Louvain Demps)
*Instrumentation byThe Funk Brothers and Marvin Tarplin of The Miracles (guitars).
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