Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up”–recently given renewed fame as the alleged model of Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ “Blurred Lines”–went to number one on the U.S. charts on this day in 1977. Here’s Marvin partying down on Part I and Part II of the song that same year.

Music the rest of the day here will depend on what happens this morning in a certain DC courthouse.

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Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.