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Heard it through the grapevine ccr3/17/2024 ![]() In 2004, it was placed 80 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, then re-ranked at 81 in 2010. In 1998 the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. The Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic. It was placed on his 1968 album In the Groove, a year and a half later, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys, and Motown founder Berry Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969 and overtook the Gladys Knight & the Pips' version of being the biggest hit single on the Motown label (Tamla). The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967, but the third to be released. The Miracles were the first to record the song in 1966, but their version wasn't released until August 1968 when it was included on their album Special Occasion. It went to number one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single to date. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight & the Pips and released as a single in September 1967. " I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. ![]()
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