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Remembering when Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell made beautiful music and topped the R&B chart for August 31, 1968 with ‘You’re All I Need To Get By.’Marvin Gaye was on fire in 1968. The Motown star had been having hits for six years, and had topped the US R&B charts twice already, both times in 1965. But in the year that he turned 29, there was no stopping him. Gaye had three Billboard Soul No.1s in the space of six months in 1968, two of them with one of his great duet partners, Tammi Terrell, who would tragically die of...

youtube.com/watch?v=7DulLDLzsF4Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On? (YouTube at the click) occurred at a different point in the cycle of manipulation of powerlessness, rage and scapegoating in his time than we are now at in our cycle within cycles. We are suffering from much more oppressive "partisan 'tolerance' " (some freedom of expression more "equal" than others) absolutely forbidding any dissent, than people were in Marvin's time, exhausted by successive tsunamis of violence and disillusionment, JFK, MLK, RFK, Chicago 1968, Viet Nam, Watergate brewing in 1971. So Marvin asked them for self-reflection, What's Goin' On?Today's fomenters of dissatisfaction and alienation keep up...

"Lucille" is performed by Johnny Marvin & His Orchestra on Perfect 15536, recorded on October 8, 1931.

In a book published in 1963, Hannah Arendt immortalized an expression that since has become the signature line to describe a person who commits acts of prodigious evil simply in the process of following orders. The individual in question was Adolf Eichmann, whose trial resulted in her treatment titled, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Eichmann was banal, all right; in fact, as alluded to in T. S. Eliot's famous poem, "The Hollow Men," he resembled Mister Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's chilling Heart of Darkness -- "hollow at the core." Which did not prevent him from...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Saturday night is movie night at No-house. If you're looking for a good one, you'll find it in the "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" starring John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Edmund O'Brien, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin as the most debased villain you've seen since Stephen Hanks. It is directed by John Ford and shot expertly in black and white. From the moment that Marvin snarls onto the screen to rob the stagecoach bringing eastern lawyer Stewart out west, you know you're going to be interested til the end. Stewart intervenes to protect...

Marvin Gaye was tragically shot by his own father on this day, April 1st, 1984...  Twenty-seven years ago today gifted R-n-B singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and record producer Marvin Gaye was killed in a family argument, shot with a gun he had given his father just four months previous.The elder stood trail for the crime, but was sentenced only to probation once the fact that his son had beat him up prior to the shooting came to light. The DC native -born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.- had great difficulties with the ups and  downs of show business, suffering from depression and...

Marvin Kostrowski died in Vietnam and his death is listed as Hostile Ground casualty yet he was killed by Friendly Fire.

NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years. "These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Washington

On the 26th of September, former Meet the Press moderator Marvin Kalb interviewed Dan (I stick by the story - the story is true) Rather before the National Press Club in a manner which can only be described as shamefully obsequious. During that interview, Kalb remarked "there is absolutely no doubt that journalism was brilliant at the time of 9/11. You were right there in the middle of it - it was brilliant...

Michael Marvin Carey spent almost half his 20 years in Amelia County. The young Marine lost his life Tuesday while examining an improvised-explosive-device in Iraq. Among those loved ones he left behind is a daughter, Mia Carey, born May 5 whom he never saw. Pfc Carey was with the Marine's 1st Combat Engineer Battalion According to the Department of Defense, the unit was serving in the 1 Marine Expeditionary Force, 1st Marine Division, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Battalion in Iraq's Anbar province. The release said the Marine "died from nonhostile causes." Pfc Carey's mother, Sandra Rhodes, of Amelia, said she...