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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

January 31, 2023

This article is about the song. For the album by Marvin Gaye, see I Heard It Through the Grapevine (album). For the idiom, see Wiktionary:hear through the grapevine.
"Heard It Through the Grapevine" redirects here. For the South Korean television series, see Heard It Through the Grapevine (TV series).

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966.[1] 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. 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 up to that time.

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
from the album Everybody Needs Love
B-side"It's Time to Go Now"
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1967
RecordedJune 17, 1967
StudioHitsville USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan
GenreR&B
Length2:52
LabelSoul
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Norman Whitfield
Gladys Knight & the Pips singles chronology
"Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me"
(1967) 		"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
(1967) 		"The End of Our Road"
(1968)
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
One of pressings of the 1968 US single
Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album In the Groove
B-side"You're What's Happening (in the World Today)"
ReleasedOctober 30, 1968
RecordedFebruary 3, 8, 13, 15, and April 10, 1967
StudioHitsville USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan
GenrePsychedelic soul, R&B
Length3:16
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Norman Whitfield
Marvin Gaye singles chronology
"His Eye is on the Sparrow"
(1968) 		"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
(1968) 		"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By"
(1969)

The Miracles were the first to record the song in 1966,[2] but their version wasn't released until August 1968 when it was included on their album Special Occasion.

The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967, but the third to be released. 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 Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic. In 1998 the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In 2004, it was placed 80 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,[3] then re-ranked at 81 in 2010.[4] In 2021, it was ranked 119. And on the commemorative fortieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, Marvin Gaye's "Grapevine" was ranked sixty-fifth.

In 2018, the Gladys Knight & the Pips version was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[5]

In addition to being released several times by Motown artists, the song has been recorded by a range of musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival,[1] who made an eleven-minute interpretation for their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory.

Composition

The song is composed in E-flat minor.[6] The lyrics tell the story in the first person of the singer's feelings of betrayal and disbelief when he hears of his girlfriend's infidelity only indirectly "through the 'grapevine'".[7]

By 1966, Barrett Strong, the singer on Motown Records' breakthrough hit, "Money (That's What I Want)", had the basics of a song he had started to write in Chicago, where the idea had come to him while walking down Michigan Avenue that people were always saying "I heard it through the grapevine".[8] The phrase is associated with black slaves during the Civil War, who had their form of telegraph: the human grapevine.[9][10] Producer Norman Whitfield worked with Strong on the song, adding lyrics to Strong's basic Ray Charles influenced gospel tune and the single chorus line of "I heard it through the grapevine".[11] This was to be the first of a number of successful collaborations between Strong and Whitfield.[12]

Motown recordings

Producer Norman Whitfield recorded "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" with various Motown artists.

Miracles

The first known recording is with the Miracles on August 6, 1966,[1] though there may also have been a recording with the Isley Brothers, or at least Whitfield intended to record it with them;[1] however, a track has not turned up – some Motown historians believe that a session may have been scheduled but cancelled.[11][13][14][15] The Miracles' version was not released as a single due to Berry Gordy's veto during Motown's weekly quality control meetings.[1] Gordy advised Whitfield and Strong to create a stronger single.[13] The Miracles version later appeared on their 1968 Special Occasion album, and a slightly different take, possibly from the same session but unreleased, appeared on the 1998 compilation album, Motown Sings Motown Treasures.[16]

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye's version is the second known recording.[1] Whitfield recorded the song with Gaye over five sessions, the first on February 3, 1967, and the last on April 10, 1967.[10][17] Recordings of this version took more than a month due to Whitfield overdubbing Gaye's vocals with that of the Andantes' background vocals, mixing in several tracks featuring the Funk Brothers on the rhythm track, and adding the string section from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with an arrangement by Paul Riser.[10]

The session featuring Gaye led to an argument between the producer and singer. Whitfield wanted Gaye to perform the song in a higher key than his normal range,[11] a move that had worked on David Ruffin during the recording of the Temptations' hit, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg". The mixture of Gaye's raspy vocals and the Andantes' sweeter harmonies made Whitfield confident that he had a hit; however, despite approval from Motown's Quality Control Department, Gordy blocked the release.[18]

Gladys Knight & the Pips

Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded "Grapevine" on June 17, 1967, in Motown's Studio A, also with Norman Whitfield as producer.[1] After hearing Aretha Franklin's version of "Respect", Whitfield rearranged "Grapevine" to include some of the funk elements of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. According to David Ritz, Whitfield set to record a song that would "out-funk" Aretha. After Whitfield presented the demo tapes, Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight, William Guest, and Edward Patten worked for several weeks on their vocal arrangement. To make the song suitable for Gladys, the first line of the second verse ("I know a man ain't supposed to cry/But these tears I can't hold inside") was altered to ("Take a good look at these tears in my eyes/Baby, these tears I can't hold inside"). After much talk, Gordy reluctantly allowed the Pips' version to be a single on September 28, 1967, on Motown's Soul label.[1]

Other Motown artists

In 1968, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers recorded a version for their debut album based on Knight's recent hit. But after hearing the Marvin Gaye version, they felt they had made the wrong choice.[19] In 1969, Whitfield produced a version for the Temptations "psychedelic soul" album, Cloud Nine, in which he "brought compelling percussion to the fore, and relegated the piano well into the wings".[20] In 1971, the Undisputed Truth recorded the song in a Gaye-styled version.[21]

Releases

Since both the Miracles' and Marvin Gaye's renditions of the song were rejected by Gordy as a single, Gladys Knight & the Pips' version became the first to be released, on September 28 1967, on Motown's Soul label, with "It’s Time to Go Now" on the B-side.[1] Motown put little support behind it and the Pips relied on connections with DJs across the United States to get the record played. The Pips' version of "Grapevine" reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart on November 25, 1967, and stayed there for six weeks, making it the group's second R&B number one after 1961's "Every Beat of My Heart". It reached number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart the same month,[22] with the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" holding top spot. It was Motown's best-selling single to that point, remaining in the top 10 of the Hot 100 for nearly two months. The song was later placed on the Gladys Knight & the Pips album Everybody Needs Love.[1]

After this success Whitfield again wanted Gordy to release Gaye's "Grapevine" as a single, but Gordy did not want to release another version after the Pips had already made a hit out of it.[18] In August 1968, Whitfield added "Grapevine" to Gaye's new album In the Groove.[18] On release "Grapevine" became a radio hit and, according to Gordy himself, "The DJs played it so much off the album that we had to release it as a single".[23] So Gaye's version was released as a single on October 30, 1968. Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" eventually outsold the Pips', and until The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" 20 months later, was the biggest hit single of all time on the Motown label. It stayed at the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart[24] for seven weeks, from December 14, 1968, to January 25, 1969.[1] Gaye's "Grapevine" also held number one on the R&B chart during the same seven weeks,[25] and stayed at number one in the United Kingdom for three weeks starting on March 26, 1969. The label was pleased with the success, although Gaye, depressed because of issues such as the illness of singing partner Tammi Terrell (which would kill her less than a year later), was quoted as saying that his success "didn't seem real" and that he "didn't deserve it".[18] Cash Box said of it that "tremendous percussion and a brilliant production job add even more luster to a terrific vocal."[26]

Due to the song's success, In the Groove was re-issued as I Heard It Through the Grapevine and peaked at number two on the R&B album chart and number sixty-three on the album chart, which was at the time Marvin's highest-charted solo studio effort to date. Because of the success of both versions, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" was the first and last number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1968: the Pips version was the first week of January, the Gaye version the last week of December. Gladys Knight was not pleased that Gaye's version usurped her own, and claimed that Gaye's version was recorded over an instrumental track Whitfield had prepared for a Pips song, an allegation Gaye denied.[27] In 1985, one year following Gaye's death, the song was re-released in the UK reaching number eight thanks to a Levi's commercial (starring Nick Kamen).[28]

Legacy

The Gaye recording has become an acclaimed soul classic. In 2004, it was placed at number 80 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,[29] with the comment that Whitfield had produced the song with a number of artists using different arrangements, and that on the Marvin Gaye recording he had a "golden idea" when he set the song "in a slower, more mysterious tempo".[30] In a new Rolling Stone list published in 2011, the single was placed slightly lower at number 81.[31]

In 1998, the Marvin Gaye version of the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In June 2008, on the commemorative fiftieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine, the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as the sixty-fifth biggest song on the chart.[32] In 2018, the Gladys Knight & the Pips version was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[33]

Other versions

In addition to being recorded several times by Motown artists, the song has been recorded by musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival, whose 11-minute version appeared on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory[34] The band had initially started to play the song live before rearranging it in the studio with a long jam-like instrumental part for their record.[1] Unusually for such a long song, radio stations began to play the song, and eventually it was released as a single against the band's wishes.[1] The release reached 43 on Billboard's chart, with more modest success in other countries.[35]

In addition, funk musician Roger Troutman whose extended version taken from his 1981 solo album, The Many Facets of Roger,[36] brought the song back to number one on the R&B chart in 1981, marking the third time the song reached the top spot on that chart. It also made the Billboard Hot 100, but was not a Pop success this time around, peaking at number 79.[37] British punk band The Slits recorded the song in a post-punk style as a bonus track on their 1979 album Cut.[38] Queen Latifah used the music as a basis for her 1998 single "Paper", produced by Pras Michel for her album Order in the Court.[39]

In popular culture

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" has been used twice in television commercials – each time using session musicians recreating the style of the Marvin Gaye version. For the 1985 Levi's 501 commercial "Launderette", featuring male model Nick Kamen, agency BBH and director Roger Lyons, owing to budgetary constraints, brought in Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge to recreate the sound of the Marvin Gaye original with Tony Jackson, a Barbadian background singer for Paul Young, handling vocals and P. P. Arnold on backing vocals.[28][40][41][42][43] The commercial's success prompted Tamla-Motown to re-release Gaye's single with the Levi's 501 logo on the sleeve — "an example of integrated marketing almost before the term was invented".[44][45] The record went to number eight on the UK Singles chart, marking its second chart performance.[28] A year later, in 1986, Buddy Miles was the singer for the clay animation group The California Raisins which sang it as part of a TV advertising campaign.[46]

Marvin Gaye's version of the song is used in the opening credits of The Big Chill (1983) as each of the main characters gets to hear (through the "grapevine") about the death of their college friend, and then travels to his funeral; the song serves in an extradiegetic fashion to both unite the main characters' friendship and to locate it nostalgically for the viewer.[47][48][49]

Personnel

Marvin Gaye version

Gladys Knight & The Pips

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Gladys Knight & the Pips
Chart (1967–68) Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles[53] 3
UK Singles (OCC) 47
US Billboard Hot 100[54] 2
US Cash Box Top 100[55] 1
Marvin Gaye


Grapevine (Tiësto)

"Grapevine"
 
Single by Tiësto
Released26 October 2018
GenreBrazilian bass[77]
Length2:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tiësto
Tiësto singles chronology
"Jackie Chan"
(2018) 		"Grapevine"
(2018) 		"Ritual"
(2019)

"Grapevine" is a song by Dutch disc jockey and producer Tiësto. It was released on 26 October 2018 in the Netherlands on Musical Freedom. It marked Tiësto;s return to the Brazilian bass genre.[77] Gaye's song is extensively sampled in the track, which was premiered during Tiësto's set at Ultra Music Festival 2018 in Miami.[78] The music video was released on January 12, 2020.[79]

Fabien Dori from French webmedia Guettapen criticized the "cruel lack of originality" of the track, stating that "the drop seems strangely like the one from 'Boom', and this is not the generic vocal which will enhance the whole".[80]

Track listing

Digital Download (MF306)
  1. "Grapevine" - 2:30
Digital Download (MF306)
  1. "Grapevine" (Extended Mix) - 3:27
Digital Download / Remixes (MF319)
  1. "Grapevine" (Tujamo Remix) - 3:21
  2. "Grapevine" (John Christian Remix) - 2:30
  3. "Grapevine" (Carta Remix) - 2:35

Charts

Charts (2018) Peak
Position
Belgium Dance (Ultratop Wallonia)[81] 14
US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[82] 34

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This article is about the song For the album by Marvin Gaye see I Heard It Through the Grapevine album For the idiom see Wiktionary hear through the grapevine Heard It Through the Grapevine redirects here For the South Korean television series see Heard It Through the Grapevine TV series I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966 1 The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight amp the Pips and released as a single in September 1967 It went to number one on the Billboard R amp B Singles chart and number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time I Heard It Through the Grapevine Single by Gladys Knight amp the Pipsfrom the album Everybody Needs LoveB side It s Time to Go Now ReleasedSeptember 28 1967RecordedJune 17 1967StudioHitsville USA Studio A Detroit MichiganGenreR amp BLength2 52LabelSoulSongwriter s Norman WhitfieldBarrett StrongProducer s Norman WhitfieldGladys Knight amp the Pips singles chronology Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me 1967 I Heard It Through the Grapevine 1967 The End of Our Road 1968 I Heard It Through the Grapevine One of pressings of the 1968 US singleSingle by Marvin Gayefrom the album In the GrooveB side You re What s Happening in the World Today ReleasedOctober 30 1968RecordedFebruary 3 8 13 15 and April 10 1967StudioHitsville USA Studio A Detroit MichiganGenrePsychedelic soul R amp BLength3 16LabelTamlaSongwriter s Norman WhitfieldBarrett StrongProducer s Norman WhitfieldMarvin Gaye singles chronology His Eye is on the Sparrow 1968 I Heard It Through the Grapevine 1968 Good Lovin Ain t Easy to Come By 1969 The Miracles were the first to record the song in 1966 2 but their version wasn t released until August 1968 when it was included on their album Special Occasion The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded in the beginning of 1967 but the third to be released 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 amp the Pips version of being the biggest hit single on the Motown label Tamla The Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic In 1998 the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for historical artistic and significant value In 2004 it was placed 80 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 3 then re ranked at 81 in 2010 4 In 2021 it was ranked 119 And on the commemorative fortieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008 Marvin Gaye s Grapevine was ranked sixty fifth In 2018 the Gladys Knight amp the Pips version was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 5 In addition to being released several times by Motown artists the song has been recorded by a range of musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival 1 who made an eleven minute interpretation for their 1970 album Cosmo s Factory Contents 1 Composition 2 Motown recordings 2 1 Miracles 2 2 Marvin Gaye 2 3 Gladys Knight amp the Pips 2 4 Other Motown artists 3 Releases 4 Legacy 5 Other versions 6 In popular culture 7 Personnel 8 Charts and certifications 8 1 Weekly charts 8 2 Year end charts 8 3 All time charts 8 4 Certifications 9 Grapevine Tiesto 9 1 Track listing 9 2 Charts 10 ReferencesComposition EditThe song is composed in E flat minor 6 The lyrics tell the story in the first person of the singer s feelings of betrayal and disbelief when he hears of his girlfriend s infidelity only indirectly through the grapevine 7 By 1966 Barrett Strong the singer on Motown Records breakthrough hit Money That s What I Want had the basics of a song he had started to write in Chicago where the idea had come to him while walking down Michigan Avenue that people were always saying I heard it through the grapevine 8 The phrase is associated with black slaves during the Civil War who had their form of telegraph the human grapevine 9 10 Producer Norman Whitfield worked with Strong on the song adding lyrics to Strong s basic Ray Charles influenced gospel tune and the single chorus line of I heard it through the grapevine 11 This was to be the first of a number of successful collaborations between Strong and Whitfield 12 Motown recordings EditProducer Norman Whitfield recorded I Heard It Through the Grapevine with various Motown artists Miracles Edit The first known recording is with the Miracles on August 6 1966 1 though there may also have been a recording with the Isley Brothers or at least Whitfield intended to record it with them 1 however a track has not turned up some Motown historians believe that a session may have been scheduled but cancelled 11 13 14 15 The Miracles version was not released as a single due to Berry Gordy s veto during Motown s weekly quality control meetings 1 Gordy advised Whitfield and Strong to create a stronger single 13 The Miracles version later appeared on their 1968 Special Occasion album and a slightly different take possibly from the same session but unreleased appeared on the 1998 compilation album Motown Sings Motown Treasures 16 Marvin Gaye Edit Marvin Gaye s version is the second known recording 1 Whitfield recorded the song with Gaye over five sessions the first on February 3 1967 and the last on April 10 1967 10 17 Recordings of this version took more than a month due to Whitfield overdubbing Gaye s vocals with that of the Andantes background vocals mixing in several tracks featuring the Funk Brothers on the rhythm track and adding the string section from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with an arrangement by Paul Riser 10 The session featuring Gaye led to an argument between the producer and singer Whitfield wanted Gaye to perform the song in a higher key than his normal range 11 a move that had worked on David Ruffin during the recording of the Temptations hit Ain t Too Proud to Beg The mixture of Gaye s raspy vocals and the Andantes sweeter harmonies made Whitfield confident that he had a hit however despite approval from Motown s Quality Control Department Gordy blocked the release 18 Gladys Knight amp the Pips Edit Gladys Knight amp the Pips recorded Grapevine on June 17 1967 in Motown s Studio A also with Norman Whitfield as producer 1 After hearing Aretha Franklin s version of Respect Whitfield rearranged Grapevine to include some of the funk elements of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section According to David Ritz Whitfield set to record a song that would out funk Aretha After Whitfield presented the demo tapes Gladys Knight Bubba Knight William Guest and Edward Patten worked for several weeks on their vocal arrangement To make the song suitable for Gladys the first line of the second verse I know a man ain t supposed to cry But these tears I can t hold inside was altered to Take a good look at these tears in my eyes Baby these tears I can t hold inside After much talk Gordy reluctantly allowed the Pips version to be a single on September 28 1967 on Motown s Soul label 1 Other Motown artists Edit In 1968 Bobby Taylor amp the Vancouvers recorded a version for their debut album based on Knight s recent hit But after hearing the Marvin Gaye version they felt they had made the wrong choice 19 In 1969 Whitfield produced a version for the Temptations psychedelic soul album Cloud Nine in which he brought compelling percussion to the fore and relegated the piano well into the wings 20 In 1971 the Undisputed Truth recorded the song in a Gaye styled version 21 Releases EditSince both the Miracles and Marvin Gaye s renditions of the song were rejected by Gordy as a single Gladys Knight amp the Pips version became the first to be released on September 28 1967 on Motown s Soul label with It s Time to Go Now on the B side 1 Motown put little support behind it and the Pips relied on connections with DJs across the United States to get the record played The Pips version of Grapevine reached number one on the Billboard R amp B chart on November 25 1967 and stayed there for six weeks making it the group s second R amp B number one after 1961 s Every Beat of My Heart It reached number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart the same month 22 with the Monkees Daydream Believer holding top spot It was Motown s best selling single to that point remaining in the top 10 of the Hot 100 for nearly two months The song was later placed on the Gladys Knight amp the Pips album Everybody Needs Love 1 After this success Whitfield again wanted Gordy to release Gaye s Grapevine as a single but Gordy did not want to release another version after the Pips had already made a hit out of it 18 In August 1968 Whitfield added Grapevine to Gaye s new album In the Groove 18 On release Grapevine became a radio hit and according to Gordy himself The DJs played it so much off the album that we had to release it as a single 23 So Gaye s version was released as a single on October 30 1968 Gaye s I Heard It Through the Grapevine eventually outsold the Pips and until The Jackson 5 s I ll Be There 20 months later was the biggest hit single of all time on the Motown label It stayed at the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart 24 for seven weeks from December 14 1968 to January 25 1969 1 Gaye s Grapevine also held number one on the R amp B chart during the same seven weeks 25 and stayed at number one in the United Kingdom for three weeks starting on March 26 1969 The label was pleased with the success although Gaye depressed because of issues such as the illness of singing partner Tammi Terrell which would kill her less than a year later was quoted as saying that his success didn t seem real and that he didn t deserve it 18 Cash Box said of it that tremendous percussion and a brilliant production job add even more luster to a terrific vocal 26 Due to the song s success In the Groove was re issued as I Heard It Through the Grapevine and peaked at number two on the R amp B album chart and number sixty three on the album chart which was at the time Marvin s highest charted solo studio effort to date Because of the success of both versions I Heard It Through the Grapevine was the first and last number one on the Billboard R amp B chart in 1968 the Pips version was the first week of January the Gaye version the last week of December Gladys Knight was not pleased that Gaye s version usurped her own and claimed that Gaye s version was recorded over an instrumental track Whitfield had prepared for a Pips song an allegation Gaye denied 27 In 1985 one year following Gaye s death the song was re released in the UK reaching number eight thanks to a Levi s commercial starring Nick Kamen 28 Legacy EditThe Gaye recording has become an acclaimed soul classic In 2004 it was placed at number 80 on Rolling Stone s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 29 with the comment that Whitfield had produced the song with a number of artists using different arrangements and that on the Marvin Gaye recording he had a golden idea when he set the song in a slower more mysterious tempo 30 In a new Rolling Stone list published in 2011 the single was placed slightly lower at number 81 31 In 1998 the Marvin Gaye version of the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for historical artistic and significant value In June 2008 on the commemorative fiftieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as the sixty fifth biggest song on the chart 32 In 2018 the Gladys Knight amp the Pips version was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 33 Other versions EditIn addition to being recorded several times by Motown artists the song has been recorded by musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival whose 11 minute version appeared on their 1970 album Cosmo s Factory 34 The band had initially started to play the song live before rearranging it in the studio with a long jam like instrumental part for their record 1 Unusually for such a long song radio stations began to play the song and eventually it was released as a single against the band s wishes 1 The release reached 43 on Billboard s chart with more modest success in other countries 35 In addition funk musician Roger Troutman whose extended version taken from his 1981 solo album The Many Facets of Roger 36 brought the song back to number one on the R amp B chart in 1981 marking the third time the song reached the top spot on that chart It also made the Billboard Hot 100 but was not a Pop success this time around peaking at number 79 37 British punk band The Slits recorded the song in a post punk style as a bonus track on their 1979 album Cut 38 Queen Latifah used the music as a basis for her 1998 single Paper produced by Pras Michel for her album Order in the Court 39 In popular culture Edit I Heard It Through the Grapevine has been used twice in television commercials each time using session musicians recreating the style of the Marvin Gaye version For the 1985 Levi s 501 commercial Launderette featuring male model Nick Kamen agency BBH and director Roger Lyons owing to budgetary constraints brought in Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge to recreate the sound of the Marvin Gaye original with Tony Jackson a Barbadian background singer for Paul Young handling vocals and P P Arnold on backing vocals 28 40 41 42 43 The commercial s success prompted Tamla Motown to re release Gaye s single with the Levi s 501 logo on the sleeve an example of integrated marketing almost before the term was invented 44 45 The record went to number eight on the UK Singles chart marking its second chart performance 28 A year later in 1986 Buddy Miles was the singer for the clay animation group The California Raisins which sang it as part of a TV advertising campaign 46 Marvin Gaye s version of the song is used in the opening credits of The Big Chill 1983 as each of the main characters gets to hear through the grapevine about the death of their college friend and then travels to his funeral the song serves in an extradiegetic fashion to both unite the main characters friendship and to locate it nostalgically for the viewer 47 48 49 Personnel EditMarvin Gaye version Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye Background vocals by the Andantes Jackie Hicks Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps Hammond organ by Earl Van Dyke 10 Wurlitzer electronic piano by Johnny Griffith Drums by Richard Pistol Allen tom toms 50 10 and Uriel Jones 51 Bass by James Jamerson Percussion by Jack Ashford Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra String arrangement by Paul Riser 10 Gladys Knight amp The Pips Lead vocals by Gladys Knight Backing vocals by Merald Knight William Guest and Edward Patten Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers 52 Piano by Earl Van Dyke Bass by James Jamerson Drums by Benny Benjamin cymbals and fills and Uriel Jones main rhythm Charts and certifications EditWeekly charts Edit Gladys Knight amp the PipsChart 1967 68 PeakpositionCanada RPM Top Singles 53 3UK Singles OCC 47US Billboard Hot 100 54 2US Cash Box Top 100 55 1Marvin GayeChart 1968 69 PeakpositionAustralia Go Set Top 40 56 40Canadian RPM Top Singles 57 8France SNEP 58 88Ireland IRMA 59 7Netherlands Dutch Top 40 60 25Poland Billboard 61 2South African Chart 62 3UK Official Charts Company 63 1US Billboard Hot 100 64 1US Billboard Hot R amp B Singles 64 1US Cash Box Top 100 65 1 Reissue version Chart 1986 PeakpositionBelgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 66 18Irish Singles Chart 59 4Netherlands Dutch Top 40 60 18Netherlands Single Top 100 67 23UK Official Charts Company 63 8West Germany Official German Charts 68 48Creedence Clearwater RevivalChart 1973 PeakpositionNetherlands 10Chart 1976 PeakpositionCanada RPM Top Singles 69 76US Billboard Hot 100 54 43US Cash Box Top 100 47Roger TroutmanChart 1981 PeakpositionUS Billboard Hot 100 54 79US Billboard R amp B 1US Cash Box Top 100 70 75 Year end charts Edit Chart 1969 RankCanada 71 28US Billboard Hot 100 72 88US R amp B Billboard 73 40US Cash Box 74 4All time charts Edit Chart 1958 2018 PositionUS Billboard Hot 100 75 84Certifications Edit Region Certification Certified units salesUnited Kingdom BPI 76 Platinum 600 000 Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Grapevine Tiesto Edit Grapevine Single by TiestoReleased26 October 2018GenreBrazilian bass 77 Length2 30LabelMusical FreedomPM AMUniversalSongwriter s Norman WhitfieldBarrett StrongTijs VerwestProducer s TiestoTiesto singles chronology Jackie Chan 2018 Grapevine 2018 Ritual 2019 Grapevine is a song by Dutch disc jockey and producer Tiesto It was released on 26 October 2018 in the Netherlands on Musical Freedom It marked Tiesto s return to the Brazilian bass genre 77 Gaye s song is extensively sampled in the track which was premiered during Tiesto s set at Ultra Music Festival 2018 in Miami 78 The music video was released on January 12 2020 79 Fabien Dori from French webmedia Guettapen criticized the cruel lack of originality of the track stating that the drop seems strangely like the one from Boom and this is not the generic vocal which will enhance the whole 80 Track listing Edit Digital Download MF306 Grapevine 2 30Digital Download MF306 Grapevine Extended Mix 3 27Digital Download Remixes MF319 Grapevine Tujamo Remix 3 21 Grapevine John Christian Remix 2 30 Grapevine Carta Remix 2 35Charts Edit Charts 2018 PeakPositionBelgium Dance Ultratop Wallonia 81 14US Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 82 34References Edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m Padgett Ray 2017 Cover me the stories behind the greatest cover songs of all time New York pp 87 95 ISBN 978 1 4549 2250 6 OCLC 978537907 Original versions of I Heard It Through the Grapevine written by Norman 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