Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

Johnny gets all the cards and letters you mail him for suggestions on the Music Series and you kids can't seem to get enough of themed nights. Well how about we just go to the dogs tonight? Tonight it's all about our furry friends. Marvin Gaye kicking things off tonight with 'I'll Be Doggone'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

'Ain't That Peculiar' by Marvin Gaye, one of the best songs ever. Again here we see proper backup singers pushing a song over the top.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

Unlike some record offers that offer one side for dancing and another for romancing, here on the Music Series all our songs tonight will work for both.

That's a win for you.

You're welcome.

Now make sure you have that special other person in your life and throw back a few belts of an adult beverage, smoke 'em if ya got 'em or however you to be lit lighting candles. Who better than Marvin Gaye to get things started tonight.

'Let's Get It On' and if the spirit moves ya, let me groove ya.

Is that bonus music at the end? Don't tell nobody.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

What a great song. Sounds good kicking off say a Music Series somewhere or in the middle of a party or in the club, its just always a welcome song. Oh, right, which song. 'Got to Give it Up' getting us started tonight.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

Uplifting a nation feeling blue is a huge responsibility but Johnny is up to that task tonight. We'll start the Music Series with a Motown classic (so you know it's good), 'Ain't That Peculiar' by the late Marvin Gaye.

Ain't that peculiar, something we think a lot of people are going to say over the next four years.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

In about 20 minutes Johnny is gonna take the dire wolf out for a late night walk. He'd better hear this coming out of every open window and people singing along because on this one, well, there's no excuse. 

 SING! 

 Marvin Gaye with "I Heard it Through the Grapevine'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

Marvin Gaye does not have time for your cheating. He is not gonna stand there and be made a fool of. What a great song and for all the young kids listening to Motown to know if Marvin's not gonna tolerate that mess you needn't either.

Marvin Gaye and 'I'll Be Doggone'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

You just can't have a bad time listening to Marvin Gaye songs can you? You can feel introspective on some of his more serious music but sooner rather than later a song like 'I'll Be Doggone' is gonna pop up in the shuffle and that smile just permeates. It's cool, push the furniture to the outside of the room and glide around and feel good about life for the next two minutes fifty.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

Side A is for dancin', and side B is for romancin'.

Welcome to side B.

Marvin Gaye with 'Sexual Healing'

Make sure to stop back tonight for a SPECIAL Friday night music series

Motown turns 50 on Monday, and in celebration of some GREAT American music, we'll have a special collection of videos tonight. Well worth coming back for...

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARVIN GAYE!

Johnny knows New Jersey has their own musical legends and that's great. He likes a lot of them too. A lot. That being said Johnny grew up in Detroit and he'll be happy to debate it as the greatest music city ever. No, ever. Part of your upbringing in 'The D' is Motown. Growing up it was everywhere on the radio and live performances. It was found in the water you could say. It was the fabric of the cloth we all wore.

Johnny's also feeling a lot defiant lately as a few thimble headed gherkins who call themselves Senators from southern states have tried to drive a stake into his hometown's heart this week. Very bad words have escaped his lips this week directed at these evil men. You see, we're not the 'United States of territorial business practices', no, we're the United States of America and when one falls behind here, you go back and pick 'em up. The US military says 'No man left behind'. Johnny's old football coach used to say 'A team is only as fast as it's slowest man'. This is America, we look out for each other, not just the business in our own back yard. Those Detroit auto companies have a long rich history of helping America when it needed it. Remember their help after 9/11, remember the tens of millions in aid and vehicles to help after Hurricane Katrina, remember the Detroit manufacturing machine that helped win World War II. They didn't demand Congressional hearings and business plans about how the levees would be rebuilt so this wouldn't happen again, no friends, they came in like the cavalry with anything that was needed to help Americans. They never asked about safer high rise building plans for New York skyscrapers before the help came. They brought it by the American truckloads, never flinching, never complaining. Never once asking about the bottom line.

Remember the Kinks song 'Catch Me Now I'm Falling' with it's words:

I remember when you were down and you needed and helping hand
I came to feed you but now that I need you, you won't give me a second glance
Now I'm calling on citizens from all over the world, this is Captain America calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees so will you catch me now I'm falling

Therefore, Johnny is dedicating this tune, by Motown legend Marvin Gaye to these selfish senators....Marvin Gaye with 'What's Going On'