Trouble Man is a soundtrack album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released December 8, 1972 on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. As the soundtrack to the 1972 blaxploitation film of the same name, the Trouble Man soundtrack was a more contemporary move for Gaye, following his landmark politically-charged album What's Going On.
Fresh off the left-field base success of his classic 1971 album, What's Going On, Gaye was intrigued by Hollywood. Gaye ...
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Trouble Man is a soundtrack album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released December 8, 1972 on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. As the soundtrack to the 1972 blaxploitation film of the same name, the Trouble Man soundtrack was a more contemporary move for Gaye, following his landmark politically-charged album What's Going On.
Fresh off the left-field base success of his classic 1971 album, What's Going On, Gaye was intrigued by Hollywood. Gaye had acted in two films, including The Ballad of Andy Crocker and Chrome and Hot Leather. The singer moved to Los Angeles in 1972 after he accepted the offer to do a soundtrack album.
Like Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield, Gaye took to recording a soundtrack for a blaxploitation film. Trouble Man, a thriller based in the ghetto, was made solely for the soundtrack Gaye composed and produced himself. Unlike Super Fly (soundtrack) and Shaft, the soundtrack to Trouble Man doesn't feature love songs; except for a few vocal jabs by Gaye, it is made up...
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