What's Going On - Personnel

Personnel

  • All lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
  • Produced by Marvin Gaye
  • Members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Conducted and Arranged by David Van De Pitte
  • Background Voices:
    • Marvin Gaye
    • The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps)
    • Mel Farr and Lem Barney of the Detroit Lions
    • Bobby Rogers of The Miracles
    • Elgie Stover
    • Kenneth Stover
  • Strings, Woodwinds and Brass
    • Gordon Staples, Zinovi Bistritzky, Beatriz Budinzky, Richard Margitza, Virginia Halfmann, Felix Resnick, Alvin Score, Lillian Downs, James Waring – violins
    • Edouard Kesner, Meyer Shapiro, David Ireland, Nathan Gordon – violas
    • Italo Babini, Thaddeus Markiewicz, Edward Korkigan – cellos
    • Max Janowsky – double bass
    • Carole Crosby – harp
    • Dayna Hardwick, William Perich – flutes
    • Larry Nozero, Angelo Carlisi, George Benson, Tate Houston – saxophones
    • John Trudell, Maurice Davis – trumpets
    • Carl Raetz – trombone
  • Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers and Solo Horns
    • Eli Fontain – alto saxophone
    • Wild Bill Moore – tenor saxophone
    • Marvin Gaye – piano, mellotron ("Mercy Mercy Me"), box drum ("What's Going On")
    • Johnny Griffith – celeste, keyboards
    • Earl Van Dyke – keyboards
    • Jack Brokensha – vibraphone, percussion
    • Joe Messina, Robert White – electric guitars
    • James Jamerson – bass guitar "What's Going On," "What's Happening Brother," "Flyin' High," "Save the Children," "God Is Love," and the b-side "Sad Tomorrows" "Right On," "Wholly Holy"
    • Bob Babbitt – bass guitar "Mercy, Mercy Me," and "Inner City Blues"
    • Chet Forest – drums
    • Jack Ashford – tambourine, percussion
    • Eddie "Bongo" Brown – bongos, congas
    • Earl DeRouen – bongos, congas
    • Bobbye Hall – bongos "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
  • Katherine Marking – graphic design
  • Alana Coghlan – graphic design
  • John Matousek – mastering
  • James Hendin – Photography
  • Curtis McNair – Art Direction

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