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No blurred lines: Marvin Gaye and friends in 60s videos

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I'm not so sure that anyone will still be talking about Robin Thicke or Pharrell Williams 50 years from now, except in law textbooks. But Marvin Gaye will still be a star.

Two television lip-synch videos from right around 1965. Choose your style — the Hullabaloo Dancers:



Or the Gazzarri Dancers. The one closest to Marvin, Dawn Michaels, actually danced first on "Hullabaloo" before joining "Hollywood A Go-Go" in the KHJ basement.

I know which dancers I would have wanted to hang out with after the show.

Bonus video: Gaye's KHJ bodyguards change outfits for a round of "Hitchhike."


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