Title: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Content:  "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" is the second single from Marvin Gaye's 1971 album, What's Going On. Following the breakthrough of the title track's success, the song, written solely by Gaye, became regarded as one of popular music's most poignant anthems of sorrow regarding the environment. Led by Gaye playing piano, strings conducted by Paul Riser and David Van De Pitte, multi-tracking vocals from Gaye and The Andantes, multiple background instruments provided by The Funk Brothers and a leading sax solo by Wild Bill Moore, the song rose to number 4 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart and number one for two 
Title: Marvin Gaye Live!
Content: 1) "Introduction" – 0:34 ; 2) "Overture" (Gaye) – 2:24 ; 3) "Trouble Man" (Gaye) – 6:36 ; 4) "Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)/Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" - 4:28 ; 5) "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" ( Gaye, Nyx) – 3:55 ; 6) "Distant Lover" (Gordy Fuqua, Gaye, Greene) – 6:14 ; 7) "Jan" (Gaye) – 2:56 ; 8) "Keep Gettin' It On" (Gaye, Townsend) - 3:07 ; 9) Fossil Medley: "I'll Be Doggone/Try It Baby/Can I Get a Witness/You're a Wonderful One/Stubborn Kind of Fellow/How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) – 11:36 ; 10) "Thanks to the Orchestra" - 0:55 ; 11) "Let's Get It On" (Gaye, Townsend) – 4:43 ; 12) "What's Going On" (Benson, Cleveland, Gaye) – 4:49 
Title: Marvin Gaye
Content:  Marvin Gaye has been called "the number-one purveyor of soul music". In his book Mercy Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, Michael Eric Dyson described Gaye as someone "who transcended the boundaries of rhythm and blues as no other performer had done before". Following his death, The New York Times described Gaye as someone who "blended the soul music of the urban scene with the beat of the old-time gospel singer and became an influential force in pop music". Further in the article, Gaye was also credited with combining "the soulful directness of gospel music, the sweetness of soft-soul and pop, and the vocal musicianship of a jazz singer". His recordings for Motown in the 1960s 
Title: Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits
Content:  Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American R&B/soul singer and Motown legend Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label in 1976 on LP and 1987 on CD. The hits collection, with the exception of Gaye's signature 1960s hits "Can I Get a Witness", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", was a review of Gaye's signature 1970s hits including the socially conscious anthems "What's Going On" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", erotically-focused material like "Let's Get It On", "I Want You" and "After the Dance", his bluesy and funky autobiographical "Trouble Man" and the live version of his quiet storm classic, "Distant Lover". The album has received a Gold as well as a Platinum Certification by the RIAA in 1993.
Title: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Content: Marvin Gaye – lead and background vocals, piano, Mellotron ; The Andantes – additional background (harmony) vocals ; Wild Bill Moore – tenor saxophone solo ; David Van De Pitte – string conduction ; The Funk Brothers – other instrumentation 
Title: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Content:  on the R&B Singles charts on August 14 through to August 27, 1971. The distinctive percussive sound heard on the track was a wood block struck by a rubber mallet, drenched in studio reverb. The song also brought Gaye one of his rare appearances on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it peaked at number 34. In Canada, "Mercy Mercy Me" spent two weeks at number 9. Cash Box described the song as being "a similar chugging ballad effort" to "What's Going On," stating that "the easy going surface lies gently above an exciting rhythm track." In 1991, a music video of 
Title: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Content:  song was released by Motown Records, featuring appearances by celebrities such as Big Daddy Kane, Bobby Brown, Diana Ross, David Bowie and Wesley Snipes. As the single became his second million-seller from What's Going On, the album started on the soul album charts in the top five and began charging up the pop rankings. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" soon became one of Gaye's most famous songs in his extensive catalogue. In 2002 it was his third single recording to win a "Grammy Hall of Fame" Award. As on "Inner City Blues", Bob Babbitt, not James Jamerson, plays the bass line.
Title: Let's Get It On
Content:  reconciliation, the search for sexual healing, is what drives his art ... The paradox is this: The sexiest of Marvin Gaye's work is also his most spiritual. That's the paradox of Marvin himself. In his struggle to wed body and soul, in his exploration of sexual passion, he expresses the most human of hungers—the hunger for God. In those songs of loss and lament—the sense of separation is heartbreaking. On one level, the separation is between man and woman. On a deeper level, the separation is between man and God." In the album's liner notes, Gaye explained his views on the themes of sex and love, stating "I can't see anything wrong 
Title: The Marvin Gaye Collection
Content: 1) "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" - 2:49 ; 2) "Hitch Hike" - 2:32 ; 3) "Pride and Joy" - 2:28 ; 4) "Can I Get a Witness" - 2:47 ; 5) "You're a Wonderful One" - 2:46 ; 6) "Try It Baby" - 2:59 ; 7) "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" - 2:55 ; 8) "I'll Be Doggone" - 2:47 ; 9) "Ain't That Peculiar" - 2:57 ; 10) "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - 3:12 ; 11) "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" - 2:53 ; 12) "That's the Way Love Is" - 3:39 ; 13) "What's Going On" - 3:50 ; 14) "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" - 3:13 ; 15) "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" - 3:04 ; 16) "Trouble Man" - 3:39 ; 17) "Let's Get It On" (Single version) - 4:00 ; 18) "I Want You" - 3:55 ; 19) "Got to Give It Up" (Single version) - 4:12 ; 20) "Sexual Healing" - 3:58 
Title: Marvin Gaye
Content:  It also reached the top spot on Cashbox's pop chart for a week and reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 and the Record World chart, selling over two million copies. After giving an ultimatum to record a full album to win creative control from Motown, Gaye spent ten days recording the What's Going On album that March. Motown issued the album that May after Gaye remixed the album in Hollywood. The album became Gaye's first million-selling album launching two more top ten singles, "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" and "Inner City Blues". One of Motown's first autonomous works, its theme and segue flow brought the concept 

Question: what is mercy mercy me by marvin gaye about?
Answer: sorrow regarding the environment.
the environment.