{"id":2823,"date":"2010-07-08T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:07:21","slug":"marvin-gaye-mentor-harvey-fuqua-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/marvin-gaye-mentor-harvey-fuqua-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Gaye Mentor Harvey Fuqua Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><em>Thanks to dbuskirk for the heads up on Fuqua&#8217;s death.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/609d1Buz8tU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMotown A&amp;R man\/songwriter\/producer\/etc <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/08\/arts\/music\/08fuqua.html?_r=2&amp;ref=obituaries\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Fuqua has died<\/a> at 80 years of age. I have long known the name of Fuqua from his credits on Marvin Gaye and Surpremes records. In all these years I never knew a tenth of what he did, but any collaborator with Gaye who had the same last name as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Fuqua\" target=\"_blank\">coolest figures in 1970s football<\/a> is cool in my book! Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/newblackman.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/remembering-harvey-fuqua-man-behind.html\" target=\"_blank\">awesome piece from the <em>NewBlackMan<\/em> blog<\/a> on Fuqua&#8217;s career and impact on other artists.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t trust my reading comprehension skills (click on the links above), but it turns out Fuqua led the late-1950s R&amp;B group <strong>The Moonglows<\/strong> as well as acted in an A&amp;R capacity for the band&#8217;s label, Chess Records. Fuqua first groomed young Marvin when he joined as a member of The Moonglows. Among other achievements at Motown Fuqua is credited with teaming Marvin with his greatest duet partner, <strong>Tammi Terrell<\/strong>. Along with his collaboration on Gaye&#8217;s awesome final album, <em>Midnight Love<\/em>, Fuqua would continue having success producing artists into the &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s, with the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GgRl0DoLuuY\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvester and The Weather Girls<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a mid-&#8217;70s act he guided that I&#8217;d never heard of before now, <strong>New Birth<\/strong>. The totally unexpected dance break at the <strong>1:32 mark<\/strong> is among the finest unexpected dance breaks in the history of televised music!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>5BH5B_dwzbQ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to dbuskirk for the heads up on Fuqua&#8217;s death. Motown A&amp;R man\/songwriter\/producer\/etc Harvey Fuqua has died at 80 years of age. I have long known the name of Fuqua from his credits on Marvin Gaye and Surpremes records. In all these years I never knew a tenth of what he did, but any collaborator <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/marvin-gaye-mentor-harvey-fuqua-dead\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}