I'll Be Doggone

"I'll Be Doggone"
Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album Moods of Marvin Gaye
Released	January 1965
Format	7" single
Recorded	Hitsville, USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan, 1964
Genre	Soul/pop
Length	2:50
Label	Tamla
Writer(s)	William "Smokey" Robinson Warren Moore Marvin Tarplin
Producer	William "Smokey" Robinson
Marvin Gaye singles chronology
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" (1964) "I'll Be Doggone" (1965) "Pretty Little Baby" (1965)

"I'll Be Doggone" is a 1965 song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye and released on the Tamla label. The song talks about how a man tells his woman that he'll be "doggone" about simple things but if she did him wrong that he'd be "long gone".

It became his first million-selling record and his first number-one single on the R&B chart, staying there for two weeks, and was the first song Gaye recorded with Smokey Robinson as one of the songwriters of the record. The song was co-written by Robinson's fellow Miracles members Pete Moore and Marv Tarplin.The Miracles also sang background on this recording,along with Motown's long-standing female back-up group, The Andantes,and Miracle Marv Tarplin played lead guitar. "I'll Be Doggone" gave Marvin his third top-ten pop hit, where it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, with that number matched by his follow-up record, "Ain't That Peculiar".

Personnel

• Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
• Background vocals by The Miracles (Claudette Rogers Robinson, Pete Moore, Ronnie White, and Bobby Rogers) & The Andantes (Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks and Louvain Demps)
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers and Marv Tarplin of The Miracles (guitars).

See also

• List of number-one R&B singles of 1965 (U.S.)