Hello Broadway

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Hello Broadway
Studio album by Marvin Gaye
Released	November 12, 1964
Recorded	1964
Studio	Graystone Ballroom, Detroit, MI
Genre	Soul/Broadway
Length	32:22
Label	Tamla TS 259
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)

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Hello Broadway is the fourth studio album by soul singer Marvin Gaye, released in 1964. It is an album of standards and Broadway material.^[2]

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.