What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye’s 1971 recording of “What’s Going On” is the earliest release on file. Marvin Gaye shares the writing credit with Renaldo Benson and Al Cleveland. Also recorded by Cyndi Lauper (released 1986), Artists Against AIDS Worldwide (released 2001) and U2 (released 2017), among 311 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Ice Cube’s “When I Get to Heaven” (1993) carries this song’s writers on its credit.
Cube's track runs on "What's Going On," and the writers of that one are right there on his credits. Play Marvin Gaye's first recording next to it and you can hear the same question asked twenty-odd years apart.
Credited writers: Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland and Marvin Gaye.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1971.
Ice Cube’s “When I Get to Heaven” (1993) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.
- Cyndi Lauper1986
- Paul Weller1993
- Artists Against AIDS Worldwide2001
- A Perfect Circle2004
- U22017
311 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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