"I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE" A Tribute to Marvin Gaye.
"I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE" A video tribute to Marvin Gaye. Produced by Donna Freeberg and Scott Taylor for ShoutOut3D with CANDLEBOTS animation and music sung by Marvin Gaye, Songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Animation and editing by Scott Taylor, art direction and costumes Donna Freeberg. [For best viewing resolution, please set your YouTube settings to HD 1080p!] |||||||||||||
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966.
The Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic. In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In 2004, it was placed 80th on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, then re-ranked at 81 in 2010. 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.
Marvin Gaye's version, released on his 1968 album In the Groove, is the second known recording. Whitfield recorded the song with Gaye over five sessions, the first on February 3, 1967, and the last on April 10, 1967. 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.