Likewise, "Wonderful One", "Can I Get a Witness" and others were inexplicably left off in a release that is proclaimed as “The Marvin Gaye Collection”, instead of what it really is “Marvin Gaye’s Best Sellers”. And what about “Stubborn Kind of Fella” when Marvin Gaye would dance on the table tops at Ester’s Orbit Room on 7th Street in Oakland (at least that's what my cousin use to tell me). To this day my siblings amusingly, but with all due respect, reminiscence the lyrics “Hitch Hike, Hitch Hike Chilin” (the vernacular for “children”). Two legendary songs, in particular, "Hitch Hike" and "Pride and Joy" featured Martha and the Vandella's (before they were known) kickin' plenty ass in the background. Songs that were released when he was only appreciated and known as a soul singer in the Black community were uniformly left off the list. I was particularly disappointed that some of the great Marvin Gaye songs that made only the soul charts and not the Bill Board Top 40 were not included. I thought the songs included made for a chintzy, watered down, list. I purchased this SACD a while back but was disappointed by the paucity of “formative” Marvin Gaye music.
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