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4 Comments on “Purple Snowflakes: Listed as Marvin Gaye but maybe not!”
It may have been labeled as such, but are you sure this is Marvin Gaye? It’s unlike any version by him I’ve heard and I can’t find this one on YouTube. I’m not even sure it sounds like him. Not that this is a bad version of the song, but something tells me it was mislabeled at the source. I tried to access it via “dailymotion” (the name on the video), but I just get taken to the next Marviin Gaye song (which IS him).
I found out this song is on the album A Christmas Present From Motown Vol. 1. It is labeled Marvin Gaye. It is also on YouTube on a few albums but you are right. The album music doesn’t sound the same.
I found the description on the web set with this song listed, “A song so beautiful it’s almost otherworldly – Marvin Gaye’s flawless falsetto, the unexpected chord changes, the sense of mystery. Yet it’s wrapped up in the most comforting of Christmas imagery – chestnuts roasting, blankets of white – without ever explaining why the snowflakes are purple.”
I have a copy of the Marvin Gaye version of this song (Motown Christmas, Vol. 2) and this one sounds very different. The Marvin Gaye version is very R&B and is arranged differently. The singer on this version sounds like his voice has been run through Autotune. I would be very surprised if it is actually Marvin Gaye.
I found the song, also credited to Marvin Gaye, on a couple of Christmas compilation albums. I did hear the version with a different sounding voice. It is weird.
December 22, 2022 at 4:12 pm
It may have been labeled as such, but are you sure this is Marvin Gaye? It’s unlike any version by him I’ve heard and I can’t find this one on YouTube. I’m not even sure it sounds like him. Not that this is a bad version of the song, but something tells me it was mislabeled at the source. I tried to access it via “dailymotion” (the name on the video), but I just get taken to the next Marviin Gaye song (which IS him).
December 22, 2022 at 4:27 pm
I found out this song is on the album A Christmas Present From Motown Vol. 1. It is labeled Marvin Gaye. It is also on YouTube on a few albums but you are right. The album music doesn’t sound the same.
I found the description on the web set with this song listed, “A song so beautiful it’s almost otherworldly – Marvin Gaye’s flawless falsetto, the unexpected chord changes, the sense of mystery. Yet it’s wrapped up in the most comforting of Christmas imagery – chestnuts roasting, blankets of white – without ever explaining why the snowflakes are purple.”
I’m still confused.
December 23, 2022 at 2:28 am
I have a copy of the Marvin Gaye version of this song (Motown Christmas, Vol. 2) and this one sounds very different. The Marvin Gaye version is very R&B and is arranged differently. The singer on this version sounds like his voice has been run through Autotune. I would be very surprised if it is actually Marvin Gaye.
December 23, 2022 at 6:14 pm
I found the song, also credited to Marvin Gaye, on a couple of Christmas compilation albums. I did hear the version with a different sounding voice. It is weird.