Hello Broadway

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Hello Broadway
Studio album by Marvin Gaye
Released	November 12, 1964
Recorded	1964 Graystone Ballroom, Detroit
Genre	Soul/Broadway
Length	33:20
Label	Tamla
Producer	Hal Davis, Marc Gordon
Marvin Gaye chronology
Together (with Mary Wells) (1964) Hello Broadway (1964) How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (1965)

Hello Broadway was an 1964 album of standards and Broadway material recorded by soul singer Marvin Gaye.

Released during the middle of Gaye's coming-of-age as Motown's premier male solo star, the album showcases more of Gaye's personal desire to be a Nat King Cole/Frank Sinatra styled crooner rather than the R&B hitmaker Motown was grooming him into. Hello Broadway and Gaye's When I'm Alone I Cry albums were released at a time when Motown executives wanted Gaye to record for strictly the young R&B crowds rather than capture a more mature audience. It would take Gaye years to craft an album of standards that were more of his making, rather than the Cole-styled vocals he laid during this earlier period.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hello Broadway"
2. "People"
3. "The Party's Over"
4. "On The Street Where You Live"
5. "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
6. "My Kind of Town"
7. "Days of Wine and Roses"
8. "This Is the Life"
9. "My Way"
10. "Hello Dolly!"
11. "Walk on the Wild Side"