Home | Songs By Year | Songs from 1971


Save the Children (song)

Buy Save the Children (song) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the song. And once you've experienced the song, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




"'Save the Children'" is a 1971 song written by Al Cleveland, Renaldo Benson and Marvin Gaye and issued on Marvin's 1971 album, 'What's Going On'. While not issued as a single in the United States, the song was issued as a single by the Tamla-Motown label in the United Kingdom where it peaked at No. 41 on the charts in December 1971, whereas the other major US single releases initially failed to chart in Europe.

The song would later be covered by Diana Ross in a medley featuring the jazz song, "Brown Baby", on her 1973 album, 'Touch Me in the Morning'. Gaye sang this song briefly while touring Europe in 1976 as part of his 'What's Going On' medley.

Lyrics



The song was a continuation of the message "What's Going On" delivered, about love, this time, for the children. Marvin later joked on the liner notes of the album "not let (this song) influence anyone". Marvin recorded both a spoken word recitation of the song and a vocal version mixing the two vocals together featuring Marvin's soft-spoken vocals on one side and his expressive tenor on the other.

Personnel



*Marvin Gaye lead vocals, spoken verses, production

*The Andantes background vocals

*The Funk Brothers instrumentation

References



Category:1971 songs

Category:Marvin Gaye songs

Category:Songs about children

Category:Songs written by Marvin Gaye

Category:Songs written by Al Cleveland

Category:Songs written by Renaldo Benson

Category:Song recordings produced by Marvin Gaye

Category:1971 singles

Category:Diana Ross songs

Category:Tamla Records singles

Buy Save the Children (song) now from Amazon

<-- Return to songs from 1971



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1090780505.