Marvin Gaye

Through his work is widely influential, it eventually became a neo-soul cliche to cite Gaye, Stevie Wonder, or Donny Hathaway as an influence, regardless of whether or not the citing artists' music actually reflected the qualities and creatvity inherent in Gaye's work.
. In addition, Gaye's music was often used as one of the reference point for what became known as nu soul or neo soul in the late-1990s: a nostalgic-based sound that seeks to duplicate a 1970s soul music feel, while adding hip hop and contemporary R&B elements to the mix. The Indian skeptic Basava Premanand toured around in the villages of India to educate people by debunking gurus and fakirs whom he considers frauds or self deceived. As noted, Gaye helped gave rise to the "singer/soulwriter" in Black music. Some believe that this rule has the drawbacks that one should know what is good and bad in the first place and that one cannot possibly know all acts and their corresponding fruits of a guru. The "What's Going On" cover also featured Marvin Gaye's only daughter, Nona Gaye, a successful singer and actress in her own right. [3] (http://www.biblebell.org/proph/prophecy1.html) .

Diddy, ?uestlove, Britney Spears, and Gwen Stefani[3] (http://www.aaaw.org/press/pr_10_22_01.html). According to the Bible, Jesus said that one should judge a prophet by his fruits, though it is not not clear whether this rule of the thumb also includes gurus. Blige, Bono, Destiny's Child, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Nelly Furtado, Alicia Keys, Aaron Lewis, Nas, *NSYNC, P. The history of various gurus, religions, sects, new religious movements and cults has shown that the question how to assess the authenticity of a guru is difficult, especially when the guru is still young. The single, which was also a reaction to the September 11, 2001 tragedy, featured contributions from a plethora of stars, including Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Lane wrote that a charlatan who cons people is not as dangerous as a guru who really believes in his delusions, and that 'bigger' the claims a guru makes, the bigger the chance that he is a charlatan or deluded. Two years later, in October 2001, an all-star cover of "What's Going On", produced by Jermaine Dupri, was issued as a benefit single for Artists Against AIDS Worldwide. The scholar David C.

In 1999, the R&B world paid its respects to Gaye in a tribute album, Marvin Is 60. He also wrote in the book that the gurus who are eloquent are the ones who are more likely to be unreliable and dangerous. Marvin Gaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Storr includes people who are not normally labelled as a guru, such as Ignatius of Loyola, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. Former Motown alum Diana Ross also paid tribute with her Top 10 pop single "Missing You" around the same time. This belief system persists after the psychosis has gone away. A year after his death, The Commodores made reference to Gaye's death in their 1985 song "Night Shift". The belief system was developed during the psychosis to make sense of the guru's own mind and perceptions.

In 1983, the British group Spandau Ballet recorded the single "True" as a partial tribute to both Gaye and the Motown sound he helped establish. He argues that the belief system that gurus hold developed in some cases from a period of psychosis. Even before Gaye died, there had already been tributes to the singer. being loners without friends) and that some suffer from a mild form of schizophrenia. died of pneumonia in 1998. The British psychiatry professor Anthony Storr argues in his book Feet of clay - A Study of gurus that gurus (in the non-Hindu usage of the word) share common character traits (e.g. Marvin Gay, Sr. See French legislation on cult abuses.

After some posthumous releases cemented his memory in the popular consciousness, Gaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Critics of these legislations interpret these measures as limitations of freedom of religion. kill him instead of having to commit suicide. Some countries have enacted legislations that protect individuals with specific vulnerabilities due to physical or psychological deficiencies. On April 1, 1984, one day before his forty-fifth birthday, Gaye was shot and killed by his father in an argument, becoming a famous victim of filicide. Gaye's relatives claimed that he had purposely pushed his father to the edge so that he could have Marvin, Sr. That label has been extended to any leader seeking to exert his domination over adepts of a secular, religious organization or school of thought, or to receive inappropriate benefits under the pretense of promoting among them a certain belief system. He threatened to commit suicide several times after numerous bitter arguments with his father, Marvin, Sr. The guru and guruism labels have acquired a rather negative connotation in western countries, especially in France, likely due to the prominence of several self-proclaimed "gurus" in the US and during the 1960s and 1970s "New Age" movement, who used Hindu terminology without necessarily having much in common with mainstream Hinduism. Some of these gurus, were found to be abusing their status and to be charlatans, self-deceived, businessmen pretending to be saints, cult leaders or a combination of this.

Gaye's refound fame pushed him even deeper into drug addiction and he attempted to isolate himself by moving into his parent's house. Many gurus claim that they can bring people closer to God, facilitate enlightenment, moksha, or nirvana, or can help people to achieve good karma and a correspondingly better next incarnation. Midnight Love included "Sexual Healing", one of Gaye's most famous songs, and his final big hit. Some gurus offer a belief system that offers fulfillment and purpose and sometimes promises of a peaceful happy life. He negotiated a release from the label and signed with Columbia Records in 1982 and released Midnight Love the same year. Other people who have traditional beliefs seek to intensify their religious life and see a guru who can help her or him with this. When Motown issued the album in 1981, Gaye was livid: he accused Motown of editing and remixing the album without his consent, altering the album art he requested, and removing the question mark from the title (rendering the intended irony imperceptable). Gurus provide answers to the meaning of life, often free from the intellectualism of philosophy.

In Europe, Gaye began working on In Our Lifetime?, a complex and deeply personal record. The most common is that people look for the meaning of life and are disillusioned in traditional religions. Tax problems and drug addictions haunted him, and after failing to get Motown labelmate Smokey Robinson to loan him money to take care of the tax issues, Gaye was forced to move to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1981. There are several reasons why people in Western cultures are attracted by gurus. After a failed single and a rapidly failing new marriage to a teenage girl, Gaye moved to Hawaii. (The definition is from Jargon file.). The result was 1978's Here, My Dear, a deeply personal album that so clearly detailed the sour points of Gaye's former marriage that Anna Gordy considered suing him for invading her privacy. Less often, used (with a qualifer) for other experts on other systems, as in VMS guru.

As part of the divorce settlement, Gaye agreed to record a new album and remit a portion of the royalties to Anna as alimony. Nearly synonymous with "wizard", but additionally implies a history of being a knowledge resource for others. Gaye released I Want You by himself as his marriage finally ended in 1975. In hacker culture, a guru is an expert of legendary proportions. Gaye refused to sing if he couldn't smoke in the studio, and the duets album was recorded by overdubing Ross and Gaye at separate studio session dates. The term guru has also passed into an even wider metaphorical use. Gaye, a longtime marijuana user, refused to put out his joints out for the pregnant Ross, who immediately complained to Berry Gordy about the issue. Gurus often claim that they have achieved enlighment, moksha, that their teachings were channeled or that they have received a revelation.

Gaye teamed up with Diana Ross for Diana & Martin, an album of duets that began recording in 1971, while Ross was pregnant with her first child, Rhonda. Often, dependent on the teachings of the guru, the followers will see the guru as a prophet, saint or avatar. 1973's Let's Get It On was a sexually and romantically charged album that was very successful on the charts and remains "a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy." [2] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4sj20r8ac48n). On the other hand, Kranenborg accepts the word guru for Jesus. It has been called "the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices." [1] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ui6xlfwe5cqu~T1). Sometimes Christians use the word guru as a pejorative label. What's Going On became one of the most memorable soul albums of all time, and, based upon its themes, the concept album became the next new frontier for soul music. In more recent usage of the word guru, it means anyone who propagates a philosophical or religious belief system independent of an established school of philosophy or religion and attracts and accepts followers because of this, especially when the veracity of the belief system hinges around the reliabiliy of the guru.

Gordy eventually gave in, certain that the record would flop; What's Going On ended up having three Top Ten singles. The original meaning has evolved to a broader one. Gaye stood his ground; he wanted to be able to express himself, and not Gordy's or Motown's version of himself, on record. According to van der Lans, the deification of a guru is a traditional element of of Eastern spirituality, but detached from the Eastern cultural element and copied by Westerners, the distinction between the person of the guru and that what he symbolizes is lost and it degenerates into a boundless, uncritical personality cult. He considered the record far too political and unfamiliar in sound to be commercially successful. The late Dutch professor in psychology of religion Jan van der Lans at the Radboud University Nijmegen has mentioned three dangers when the personal contact between the guru and the disciple is absent. When Gaye delivered the album and single for release, Berry Gordy refused to release the album. Reender Kranenborg, member of the board of CESNUR, who specializes in Hinduism and new religious movements at the Free University in Amsterdam, distinguished three types of gurus,.

The partygoers are portrayed by Mel Farr and Lem Barney of the Detroit Lions, whose acquantances Gaye had made during his short-lived football career. The Dutch theologist Dr. On the finished track, as Gaye musically ponders on the state of the world, a party can be heard going on in the background, from which Gaye's voice is purposefully detached.
. Four Tops member Renaldo "Obie" Benson and songwriter Al Clevland wrote an initial rough version of the song, which Gaye took and collaborated with them to finish. See also:. The album's first single, also titled "What's Going On", addressed the political and social troubles of the world in a soulful, introspective way, contrasting to the more dramatic socially concious records made by Sly & the Family Stone and The Temptations over the previous three years. The most important is the Guru Granth Sahib, their holiest book.

Gaye was inspired to write about the war by his brother, Frankie Gay, who had just returned from the front lines. Sikhism says we are all the children of God and by deduction, God is our mother/father. The record was among the first soul records to place emphasis on political and social concerns such as environmentalism, political corruption, drug abuse, and the Vietnam War. For Sikhs, the Gurus were not in the Christian sense “Sons of God”. What's Going On was a politically-charged and deeply personal Motown album, notable for including elements of jazz and classical music. This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru, Guru Gobind (AD 1666–1708) initiated the Sikh ceremony in AD 1699. As a result, he began recording the tracks that would eventually comprise his best-known work, What's Going On, handling all of his own production and most of his own songwriting. Before his death he designated a new Guru to be his successor and to lead the Sikh community.

He tried various spirit-lifting diversions, including a short-lived attempt at a football career with the Detroit Lions, but continued to feel pain with no form of self-expression. His followers referred to him as the Guru (teacher). Gaye subsequently went into self-seclusion, and did not record or perform for nearly two years. Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism, was opposed to the caste system prevalent at his time in India. Tammi Terrell died of brain cancer on March 17, 1970. Indeed, the Sikhs carried the meaning of the word to an even greater level of abstraction, while retaining the original usage, to apply to understanding of imparted knowledge through any medium. Meanwhile, Gaye's marriage was crumbling and he continued to feel irrelevant, singing endlessly about love while popular music underwent a revolution and began addressing social and political issues. The title Guru is extremely fundamental to the religion of the Sikhs.

Terrell's illness began a depression in Gaye; when his Norman Whitfield-produced "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" hit #1 on the US pop charts for seven weeks in 1968/1969 and became the biggest seling single in Motown history to that point, he refused to acknowledge his success, feeling that it was undeserved. The term vajra is also used, meaning 'master'.




. By the time on the final Gaye/Terrell album, Easy, in 1969, Terrell's vocals were performed mostly by Valerie Simpson. A guru is someone who is not necessarily a Buddha but is heavy with knowledge. Half of the songs on You're All I Need were actual Gaye/Terrell duets, but the other half were Terrell solo songs with Gaye's vocals overdubbed onto them. In Tibetan, the operative word is 'lama' which means 'guru'. Motown decided to try and carry on with the Gaye/Terrell recordings, issuing the You're All I Need album in 1968, which featured the hits "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". According to the Dalai Lama, the term 'living Buddha' is a translation of the Chinese word 'ho fu'.

She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and her health continued to deterirate. The Dalai Lama speaking of the importance of the guru, said: "Rely on the teachings to evaluate a guru: Do not have blind faith, but also no blind criticism.". On October 14, 1967, Terrell collapsed into Gaye's arms onstage while they were performing at the Hampden-Sydney College homecoming in Virginia. The importance of a guru-disciple relationship, is demonstrated by ritual empowerments or initiations where the student obtains permission to practice a particular tantra. Real life couple Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson provided the writing and production for the Gaye/Terrell records; while Gaye and Terrell themselves were not lovers, they convincingly portrayed lovers on record.
In tantric Buddhism, a guru is essential for the initiation,practice and guidance along the path. Terrell and Gaye in particular had a good rapport, and their first album together, 1967's United, birthed the massive hits "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Your Precious Love". The disciple regards the guru as the embodiment of Buddha or a Bodhisattva, and as such he shows devotion and great appreciation toward him.

A number of Gaye's hit singles for Motown were duets with female artists such as Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell; the first Gaye/Wells album, 1964's Together, was Gaye's first charting album. In this foundation the disciple can continue in their experiential path on the true nature of reality. He wanted instead to be a pop singer in the vein of Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra, but settled for a blend of the styles of those artists and performers such as Jackie Wilson and his role model Sam Cooke. The guru's blessing is the last of the four foundations in Vajrayana Buddhism. "Pride and Joy" (1963) became a smash hit, but Gaye was discontented with the role he felt Motown Records kept him locked in, as a romantic balladeer and crooner, aiming always for chart success in the singles market.
. 1963's "Hitch Hike" and "Can I Get a Witness" were also minor hits.
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The single was written by Smokey Robinson, who created the title as a sly reference to the sometimes moody Gaye. It is worth noting that in all sects with a disciplic succession or parampara, both guru and disciple affirm to be servants of the divine. Marvin Gaye's first three Motown singles were all unsuccessful; he fnally scored a minor hit with his fourth attempt, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", in 1962. To illustrate the elevated status of a guru, some saints and poets have sung the glory of the guru:. Not only part of the Motown family, he also became part of the Gordy family when he married Berry Gorsy's sister Anna in 1961. Indeed, there is an understanding in some sects that if the devotee were presented with the guru and God, first he would pay respects to the guru since the guru had been instrumental in leading him to God. Popular and well-liked around Motown, Gaye already carried himself in a sophisiticated, gentleman-like manner, and had little need of training from Motown's in-house Artist Development director Miss Maxine Powell. The origin of guru can be traced back as far as the early Upanishads, where the conception of the Divine Teacher on earth first manifested from its early Brahmin associations.

2", and co-wrote Marth & the Vandellas' 1964 hit "Dancing in the Street" and The Marvelettes' 1965 hit "Beechwood 4-5789". Other gurus whose legacy of continuing the Hindu yogic tradition grew in the 20th century were luminaries like Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, Shri Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda and Swami Chinmayananda. Most notably, he is the drummer on Little Stevie Wonder's 1963 #1 hit "Fingertips--Pt. Some influential gurus in the Hindu tradition (there have been many) include Adi Shankaracharya, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Shri Ramakrishna. As a session drummer and part-time songwriter, Gaye worked with The Miracles, The Contours, Martha & the Vandellas, and other Motown acts. In some more mystical Hindu circles, it is believe that the guru could awaken dormant spiritual knowledge within the pupil, known as shaktipat. of Motown Records. Indeed, it is now a standard part of Hinduism (as defined by the six Vedic streams and the Tantric Agamic streams) that a guru is one's spiritual guide on earth.

After a concert in Detroit, Michigan, Gaye was recruited for a solo career by Berry Gordy, Jr. The role of the guru continues in the original sense of the word in such Hindu traditions as Vedanta, Yoga, Tantra and Bhakti sects. "Mama Loocie", relased in 1959 on Chess Records, was Gaye's first single with the Moonglows. Some Hindu denominations like BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha hold that a personal relationship with a living guru, revered as the embodiment of God, is essential in seeking moksha. With Bo Diddley, The Rainbows released a single, "Wyatt Earp" in 1958 on Okeh, and were then recruited by Harvey Fuqua to become The Moonglows. In the traditional sense, the word guru describes a relationship rather than an absolute and is used as a form of address only by a disciple addressing his master. After high school, Gaye joined the United States Air Force and then, after being discharged, joined several doo wop groups, settling on The Rainbows, a popular local group in D.C. The lineage of a guru, spread by worthy disciples who carry on that guru's particular message, is known as the guru parampara or disciplic succession.

Gaye got his start singing in the church choir, later learning to play the piano and drums to escape from his physically abusive father. Often a guru lives in an ashram. The church has very strict codes of conduct and does not celebrate any holidays. The disciple of a guru is called sishya or chela. Gaye was born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (He later added the "e" to imitate Sam Cooke, who did the same) in Washington, D.C., the son of the Reverend Marvin Gay, Sr., an ordained minister in the House of God, a conservative Christian sect which takes some elements of Pentecostalism and Orthodox Judaism. Compare also Swami. Kelly. In the sense mentioned here above, guru is used more or less interchangeably with "satguru" (literally: true teacher) and satpurusha.

This achievement would pave the way for the successes of later self-sufficient singer-songwriter-producers in Black music, such as Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Babyface, and R. Another popular etymology claims that the syllables gu (गु) and ru (रू), stand for darkness and light, respectively, providing the esoteric meaning that the guru is somebody who leads the disciple from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge [1] (http://www.dharmayoga.org/onlinestudy/dictionary.htm) [2] (http://www.samadhi-yoga.com/jai/reflect.htm). Subsequent releases proved that Gaye, who had been a part-time songwriter for Motown artists during his early years with the label, could write and produce his own singles without having to rely on the Motown system. Another etymology claimed in Hindu scriptures is that of dispeller of darkness (wherein darkness is seen as avidya, lack of knowledge both spiritual and intellectual), 'gu' meaning darkness, and 'ru' meaning dispeller. Gaye forced Motown to release his 1971 album What's Going On, which is today hailed as one of the best soul albums of all time. The word comes from the sanskrit root "gru" literally meaning heavy, weighty. Along with Stevie Wonder, Gaye is notable for fighting the hitmaking but creatively restrictive Motown record-making process, in which performers and songwriters/record producers were generally kept in separate camps. It originated in a Hindu context and holds a special place in Hinduism, signifying the sacred place of knowledge (vidya) and the imparter of knowledge.

His best records are still highly regarded, and he is often cited as one of the finest singers of his era. The word guru means teacher in Sanskrit and other Sanskrit-derived languages like Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati. Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) (April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984) was an African American pop, soul and R&B singer who gained international fame during the 1960s and 1970s as an artist on the Motown label.
. New York/Philadelphia: Basic Civitas. ISBN 0-465-01769-X. In further metaphorical extension it means simply a person with the status of an authority by reason of special skill, training or knowledge. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, and Demons of Marvin Gaye. In a Western context, the term Guru has extended into anyone who makes religious or philosophical statements and has followers because of this, in some cases in negative contexts.

Dyson, Michael Eric (2004). Guru is widely used in contemporary India with the universal meaning of the word "teacher". New York: Harmony Books. Indeed, in Indian languages like Hindi, 'Thursday' is called either Brihaspativaar or Guruvaar (vaar meaning period or day). The Top 100 Rock 'n' Roll Albums of All Time. Guru is also the Sanskrit reference to Brihaspati, a Hindu figure equivalent to the planet the Greeks named Jupiter; in Vedic astrology, Jupiter/Guru/Brihaspati is believed to exert teaching influences. Gambaccini, Paul (1987). Till today in India and among people of Hindu or Sikh persuasion, the title retains its significant hallowed space.

ISBN 030681191X. It is based on a long line of Hindu philosophical understandings of the importance of knowledge and that the teacher, guru, is the sacred conduit to self-realization. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press. A guru (गुरू Sanskrit) is a Hindu religious teacher. Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye. There is also a 2002 movie titled The Guru. Ritz, David (1986). There is a 1990s alternative rapper named Guru.

ISBN 037-550062-6. Adi Da. New York: Random House. Swami Roberto. Motown : Music, Money, Sex, and Power. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or Osho. Posner, Gerald (2002). Meher Baba.

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1973: "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)". Aleister Crowley. 1973: "You're a Special Part of Me". Note: Maharaji dropped the title "guru" from his name in 1980s together with other Hindu trappings. 1970: "The Onion Song" (actually performed by Gaye and Valerie Simpson). Maharaji, born under the name Prem Rawat. 1969: "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Coem By". Madame Blavatsky founder of Theosophy.

1968: "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing". Shoko Asahara former guru of Aum Shinrikyo. 1968: "You're All I Need to Get By". Benjamin Creme. 1967: "Your Precious Love". Marshall Applewhite leader of Heaven's Gate. 1967: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". Mysticsm and critical thinking should go together.

1966: "It Takes Two". it increases the chance of false mysticism. 1982: "Sexual Healing". meditation should be performed under personal support by the guru to keep emotions under control and to prevent psychological harm;. 1977: "Got To Give It Up". it increases the chance of idealization of the guru by the student (myth making and deification);. 1976: "I Want You". the avatar, a guru who claims to be an incarnation of God, or to be God-like, or an instrument of God, for example Sathya Sai Baba and gurus from the Sant Mat lineage.

1974: "Distant Lover". This type of guru asks for unquestioning obedience and can have Western followers and even Westerners have become one, for example Andrew Cohen. 1973: "Let's Get It On". the enlightened master who derives his authority from his experience, such as achieving moksha. 1972: "Trouble Man". the spiritual advisor for higher caste Hindus who also performs traditional rituals and who is not connected to a temple (thus not a priest). 1971: "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)". The Ten Gurus of Sikhism.

1971: "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)". Sikhism. 1971: "What's Going On". Swami Vivekananda. 1969: "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby". Swami Shyam. 1968: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (US #1). Swami Ramatirtha.

1965: "Ain't That Peculiar". Swami Premananda. 1964: "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)". Swami Dayananda. 1963: "Pride & Joy". Sriram Sharma Acharya. 1963: "Can I Get a Witness". Srila Gurudeva, (Tamala Krishna Goswami, Prabhupada's)disciple).

1973: Diana & Marvin. Sri Shankaracharya (Advaita philosophy). 1969: Easy. Sri Yukteswar Giri. 1968: You're All I Need. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. 1967: United. Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji.

1964: Together. Sri Chinmoy. 1982: Midnight Love. Sivananda. 1981: In Our Lifetime. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (founder of the Saiva Siddhanta Church, Hinduism Today (http://www.hinduismtoday.com) magazine). 1978: Here, My Dear. Saradamani Devi, the holy Mother.

1977: Live at the London Palladium. Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, founder of Ananda Marga (AMPS). 1976: I Want You. Shri Aurobindo Ghosh. 1974: Marvin Gaye Live!. Shirdi Sai Baba. 1973: Let's Get It On. Sathya Sai Baba.

1972: Trouble Man (soundtrack). Ramana Maharshi. 1971: What's Going On. Ramakrishna_Paramhansa. 1970: That's The Way Love Is. Ram Dass (Richard Alpert). 1969: Marvin Gaye & His Girls. Paramyogeshwar Sri Devpuriji.

1969: M.P.G.. Paramahansa Yogananda. 1968: In the Groove (reissued in 1969 as I Heard It Through the Grapevine). Nisargadatta Maharaj. 1966: The Moods of Marvin Gaye. Neem Karoli Baba. 1965: A Tribute To The Great Nat "King" Cole. Narayana Guru.

1965: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You. Muktananda. 1964: When I'm Alone I Cry. Mata Amritanandamayi or Ammachi. 1964: Hello Broadway. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 1963: Recorded Live on Stage. Lord Basava.

1963: That Stubborn Kinda Fellow. Gurudeb Rabindranath Thakur. 1961: The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye. Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Dayananda Saraswati. Chinmayananda.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Bhakti-Yoga-Rasavatar Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. Akhandanand Saraswati Maharaj. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the Hare Krishna Movement (ISKCON).

A.C. Sahjo Bai. Brahmanand. Kabir.