I'll Be Doggone
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| Single by Marvin Gaye | ||||
| from the album Moods of Marvin Gaye | ||||
| Released | February 26, 1965 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | January 21, 23 & 29, 1965 Hitsville, USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan | |||
| Genre | Soul/pop | |||
| Length | 2:50 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Writer(s) | William "Smokey" Robinson Warren Moore Marvin Tarplin |
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| Producer(s) | William "Smokey" Robinson | |||
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"I'll Be Doggone" is a 1965 song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye and released on the Tamla label. The song talks about how a man tells his woman that he'll be "doggone" about simple things but if she did him wrong that he'd be "long gone".
It became his first million-selling record and his first number-one single on the R&B chart, staying there for two weeks, and was the first song Gaye recorded with Smokey Robinson as one of the songwriters of the record. The song was co-written by Robinson's fellow Miracles members Pete Moore and Marv Tarplin.The Miracles also sang background on this recording,along with Motown's long-standing female back-up group, The Andantes,and Miracle Marv Tarplin played lead guitar. "I'll Be Doggone" gave Marvin his third top-ten pop hit, where it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, with that number matched by his follow-up record, "Ain't That Peculiar".[1]
Personnel
- Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
- Background vocals by The Miracles (Claudette Rogers Robinson, Pete Moore, Ronnie White, and Bobby Rogers) & The Andantes (Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks and Louvain Demps)
- Guitar by Marv Tarplin of The Miracles
- Other instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
Cover versions
- Paul Revere & the Raiders covered the song in their 1966 studio album Just Like Us!.
- In 1973, Penny DeHaven released a Country version on a single only (Billboard country chart #67).[2]
- Twiggy covered it in her album "Please Get My Name Right" (1977).
- Bob Weir covered the song on his 1978 solo album Heaven Help The Fool. He also performed it live with his band frequently during that time.
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