Marvin gaye - i heard it through the grapevine other versions

Early in the new year, Gaye recorded a new arrangement, but again, it stayed in the Hitsville vaults. Producer Whitfield then turned to Gladys Knight and the Pips, with great success. Other Motown acts including the Temptations and Bobby Taylor also cut the tune, but Whitfield was still determined to make it a hit for Gaye. He and Whitfield collaborated on the brooding, intense version, and when radio station WVON in Chicago started playing it as an album track, the phones went crazy.

Ooh, I bet you're wond'rin' how I knew 'bout your plans to make me blue With some other guy you knew before Between the two of us guys you know I love you more It took me by surprise I must say When I found out yesterday Dontcha know that I. Heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine Oh I heard it through the grapevine Oh I'm just about to lose my mind Honey, honey yeah Heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be my baby, ooh, ooh, ooh. I know a man ain't supposed to cry But these tears I can't hold inside Losin' you would end my life you see cause you mean that much to me You could have told me yourself That you love someone else Instead I. Heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine Oh I heard it through the grapevine And I'm just about to lose my mind Honey, honey yeah Heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be my baby, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Five Good Covers presents five cross-genre reinterpretations of an oft-covered song. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles recorded it before anybody else, but Motown president Berry Gordy vetoed its release. Confronting his partner with the recognition that it was all over, he flayed himself into bloody ribbons in the process. One of the first out of the gate was another Motown act, The Temptations , whose version appeared on their pioneering classic album Cloud Nine in

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