Berry Gordy Shelved Marvin Gaye's First Album and Told Him to Wait (1962). He Waited Two Years,

In 1962, Berry Gordy shelved Marvin Gaye's first album. It was an album of jazz standards — the music Marvin actually wanted to make — and Gordy decided it was uncommercial, unreleasable, and wrong for the label's direction. He told Marvin to wait. Marvin waited two years. Then he walked into Berry Gordy's office and changed the terms of their relationship. In this video, we look at the two years between Marvin Gaye's first album being shelved and the moment he found his voice at Motown — what happened in that waiting, what he was thinking, and what the man who walked into Gordy's office in 1964 understood that the man who had recorded those jazz standards in 1962 had not yet learned. This story explores what patience costs and what it builds, and why the waiting period was the most important education Marvin Gaye ever received. Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy, Motown, classic soul, R&B history, 1960s music, Motown legends, Marvin Gaye story, soul music history, Detroit, music documentary.