Trouble Man

Album: Trouble Man (1972)
Charted: 7
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Songfacts®:

  • "Mr. T is Cold Hard Steel!" said the tagline for the 1972 Soul Cinema Classic film, Trouble Man. The movie, however, is not remembered for the streetwise detective played by Robert Hooks but for the stellar soundtrack composed and produced by Marvin Gaye. The bluesy title track peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1973 and later inspired the biography title Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye by Steve Turner.
  • When Charles Pettigrew first met Eddie Chacon on a New York subway train, the latter was clutching a copy of Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man. Impressed, Pettigrew struck up a conversation with Chacon and the pair later started performing together. As Charles & Eddie, the pair enjoyed a worldwide hit in 1992 with "Would I Lie To You?"
  • This song plays a part in the 2014 movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where the character Falcon recommends the Trouble Man soundtrack to Captain America so he can catch up on what he's missed in the world. The song plays in the final scene. The song also appears in the films Se7en (1995) and Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017).

Comments: 2

  • T. Nicole from Louisville, KyThe song is also featured in the opening and closing scenes of the 2006 motion picture "Four Brothers," a remake of "The Sons of Katie Elder" and which stars Mark Walberg, Tyrese Gibson and Andre Benjamin.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 10th 1972, "Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #81; and seven weeks later on January 28th, 1973 it peaked at #7 {for 1 week} and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #4 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    His next release, "Let's Get It On", would peak at #1 on both the Top 100 and R&B Singles chart...
    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. passed away on April 1st, 1984; the day before his 45th birthday...
    May he R.I.P.
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