I'll Be Doggone

Artist: 
Marvin Gaye
Venue: 
Motown Studios
Date Recorded: 
01/29/1965
Album: 
Moods of Marvin Gaye
Track #: 
1
Personnel: 
The Andantes
The Funk Brothers
Marvin Gaye
The Miracles
Marv Tarplin
Single Catalog #: 
TM 54112 A
Single Release Date: 
02/26/1965
Written By: 
Pete Moore
Smokey Robinson
Marv Tarplin
Producer: 
Smokey Robinson
Time: 
2.50

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"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. "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".