‘I Heard It Through The Grapeve’: How Marv Gaye Claimed A Classic

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• I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVEMARV GAYETRACK 4 ON IN THE GROOVE/I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE PRODUCED BYNORMAN WHFIELD“I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE” WAS ORIGALLY A SONG WRTEN BY NORMAN WHFIELD AND BARRETT STRONG FOR MOTOWN RERDS 1966, AND MA FAMO BY MARV GAYE A… READ MORE AUG. 26, 19681 VIEWER148.1K VIEWS39 CONTRIBUTORSI HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE LYRICS[VERSE 1]OOH-OOH, I BET YOU'RE WONRG HOW I KNEW'BOUT YOUR PLANS TO MAKE ME BLUEWH SOME OTHER GUY YOU KNEW BEFOREBETWEEN THE TWO OF GUYSYOU KNOW I LOVE YOU MOREIT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE, I MT SAYWHEN I FOUND OUT YTERDAYDON'T YOU KNOW THAT[CHOS]I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVENOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MEOH, I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVEOH, I'M JT ABOUT TO LOSE MY MDHONEY, HONEY, YEAH (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)[VERSE 2]I KNOW A MAN A'T SUPPOSED TO CRYBUT THE TEARS, I N'T HOLD SILOSG YOU WOULD END MY LIFE, YOU SEE'CSE YOU MEAN THAT MUCH TO MEYOU ULD HAVE TOLD ME YOURSELFTHAT YOU LOVE SOMEONE ELSEINSTEADYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVENOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MEOH, I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVEAND I'M JT ABOUT TO LOSE MY MDHONEY, HONEY, YEAH (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)[VERSE 3]PEOPLE SAY BELIEVE HALF OF WHAT YOU SEESON, AND NONE OF WHAT YOU HEARBUT I N'T HELP BEG NFEDIF 'S TE PLEASE TELL ME, ARDO YOU PLAN TO LET ME GOFOR THE OTHER GUY YOU LOVED BEFORE?DON'T YOU KNOW[CHOS]I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVENOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE ME, BABYI HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVEOOH, I'M JT ABOUT TO LOSE MY MDHONEY, HONEY, YEAH (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)[OUTRO](YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)HONEY, HONEY, I KNOW (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)THAT YOU'RE LETTG ME GO (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)SAID I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)OOH, HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)8EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• ‘I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE’: HOW MARV GAYE CLAIMED A SOUL CLASSIC
• MARV GAYE'S ISOLATED VOLS ON 'I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE' WILL GIVE YOU GOOSEBUMPS
• THE 100 GREATT UK NO 1S: NO 10, MARV GAYE – I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVEMARV GAYETRACK 4 ON IN THE GROOVE/I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE PRODUCED BYNORMAN WHFIELD“I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE” WAS ORIGALLY A SONG WRTEN BY NORMAN WHFIELD AND BARRETT STRONG FOR MOTOWN RERDS 1966, AND MA FAMO BY MARV GAYE A… READ MORE AUG. 26, 19681 VIEWER148.1K VIEWS39 CONTRIBUTORSI HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE LYRICS[VERSE 1]OOH-OOH, I BET YOU'RE WONRG HOW I KNEW'BOUT YOUR PLANS TO MAKE ME BLUEWH SOME OTHER GUY YOU KNEW BEFOREBETWEEN THE TWO OF GUYSYOU KNOW I LOVE YOU MOREIT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE, I MT SAYWHEN I FOUND OUT YTERDAYDON'T YOU KNOW THAT[CHOS]I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVENOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MEOH, I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVEOH, I'M JT ABOUT TO LOSE MY MDHONEY, HONEY, YEAH (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)[VERSE 2]I KNOW A MAN A'T SUPPOSED TO CRYBUT THE TEARS, I N'T HOLD SILOSG YOU WOULD END MY LIFE, YOU SEE'CSE YOU MEAN THAT MUCH TO MEYOU ULD HAVE TOLD ME YOURSELFTHAT YOU LOVE SOMEONE ELSEINSTEADYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVENOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MEOH, I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVEAND I'M JT ABOUT TO LOSE MY MDHONEY, HONEY, YEAH (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)[VERSE 3]PEOPLE SAY BELIEVE HALF OF WHAT YOU SEESON, AND NONE OF WHAT YOU HEARBUT I N'T HELP BEG NFEDIF 'S TE PLEASE TELL ME, ARDO YOU PLAN TO LET ME GOFOR THE OTHER GUY YOU LOVED BEFORE?DON'T YOU KNOW[CHOS]I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVENOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE ME, BABYI HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVEOOH, I'M JT ABOUT TO LOSE MY MDHONEY, HONEY, YEAH (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)[OUTRO](YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)HONEY, HONEY, I KNOW (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)THAT YOU'RE LETTG ME GO (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)SAID I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE (HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE, NOT MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU BE MY BABY)OOH, HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)8EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Marv Gaye. Marv Gaye ‘I Heard It Through The Grapeve’ artwork- Courty: UMG.

So ’s strange to thk what an uncerta history the Norman Whfield/Barrett Strong posn had, how was rejected twice s fancy, and how the first h versn of was eclipsed jt a year later by the Marv Gaye terpretatn we all know as a worldwi classic.

Early the new year, Gaye rerd a new arrangement, but aga, stayed the Hsville vlts. Other Motown acts cludg the Temptatns and Bobby Taylor also cut the tune, but Whfield was still termed to make a h for Gaye. Buy or stream Marv Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapeve” on the album of the same name.

‘I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE’: HOW MARV GAYE CLAIMED A SOUL CLASSIC

Whfield and Strong then had Marv Gaye rerd the song but still no luck: Motown head Berry Gordy chose Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Your Unchangg Love" over "Grapeve" as his next sgle.

Their versn was a h, enterg the Top 40 November 1967 and gog to #2 Gaye's versn was clud on his 1968 album In The Groove (later re-tled I Heard It Through The Grapeve). Rodney Jon, the Chigo disc jockey at WVON, started playg on the air, Berry Gordy rensired and released Gaye's versn as a sgle, which beme even more popular and known as the five versn of the song. Gaye's "Grapeve" pound the charts about a year after Knight's, gog to #1 Ameri on December 14, this heartbreakg tune about a man who fds out sendhand that his girl is cheatg on him, Marv Gaye wng out the emotn the song thanks to Norman Whfield, who produced the track and gave him very specific stctns.

MARV GAYE'S ISOLATED VOLS ON 'I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE' WILL GIVE YOU GOOSEBUMPS

Whfield had Gaye sg slightly higher than his normal range, which created the straed vol, and he ma him do over and over until he got right. Gaye explaed to NME: "I simply took directn, as I felt the directn he was expoundg was a proper one. This was Gaye's first #1 h, and ma him a star.

In addn to the Gladys Knight and the Pips and Marv Gaye versns, Roger Troutman (rerdg as "Roger") took to the top of the R&B charts wh his 1981 versn.

The soundtrack also boasts other Motown hs such as Gaye's "What's Gog On"; The Temptatns' "My Girl" and "A't Too Proud to Beg"; The Miracl' "I Send That Emotn" and "The Tracks Of My Tears"; The Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song"; The Marvelett' "Too Many Fish the Sea" and Martha and The Vanllas' "Dancg the Street" (which was -wrten by Gaye) origal versn of this song was prented for nsiratn at one of the famo Friday morng meetgs help at the Motown offic where Berry Gordy would ci which songs to release as sgl.

THE 100 GREATT UK NO 1S: NO 10, MARV GAYE – I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE

Facebook (MarvGaye). Marv Pentz Gay, Jr. Marv Gaye is an undisputed mil legend, but on ocsn, even the greats are outdone by...

A vio of Gaye sgg his mega h “I Heard Through the Grapeve” has been makg s rounds on social media, but the difference this versn and the one most people are faiar wh is that this rendn has been stripped of backg vols or acpanyg mic.

In particular, Gaye's versn of "Grapeve" was pecially extravagant, cludg the Funk Brothers and the Detro Symphony Orchtra. The mixture of all those ponents mak easy to overlook the credible voic that ground inic Gaye tracks. But the clip, the isolated vol puts Gaye’s hky ns and imprsive falsetto ont and Gaye was shot and killed by his father 1984, the sger has been honored wh an ductn to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rhythm and Blu Mic Hall of Fame, and even received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

It n be hard to grasp the pth and breadth of Marv Gaye’s reer.

Rencilg the petg exprsns would prove to be a lifelong evolutn, one that n be traced back to Gaye’s first solo mercial succs, 1968’s I Heard It Through the much of the mic Gaye’s early reer, the release of the song was heavily ntted and almost didn’t happen.

It was rerd by the Miracl before Gaye got to 1967, and aga later that year by Gladys Knight and the arrangement of Knight’s versn is almost unregnisable om the one ma famo by Gaye: all funk and shufflg tamboure, highlights her gravelly, full-throated voice a ll and rponse, rcg to yet another light-hearted song about a wronged lover.

After hearg this versn and predictg would be a h, the notorly ntrollg Motown boss Berry Gordy had Gaye’s rerdg shelved and blocked om Gaye: I Heard It Through the Grapeve (live at Montrx Jazz ftival, 1980) – vioLuckily, producer Whfield had add to Gaye’s 1968 eighth solo album release, In the Groove, where soon beme popular via rad play and forced Gordy’s hand to release as a sgle October 1968. It beme the biggt h sgle Motown history for the next 20 months and earned Gaye his first solo No 1 the US.

It was also his first and only UK No 1, reachg the top April 1969 for three almost a the Motown mp, adherg to Gordy’s strict mands on appearance and mic choice, this w for Gaye was a ccial step towards formg his own nuanced artistic inty. Gaye’s hs to date had been as the preppy, clean-cut unterpart to Wton and Terrell, songs that spoke to the all-nquerg power of love, yet wh Grapeve we hear the begngs of Gaye’s te skill: the forlorn terweavg of loss, fiance and lt – those nstuent parts of a more realistic love than the sickly exaltatn of songs such as A’t No Mounta High on many of Gaye’s subsequent hs (What’s Gog On, Let’s Get It On and Sexual Healg) an stmental openg grabs the listener’s attentn – a slowly vampg electric piano and bassle layered wh a tamboure and a shrill ll of horns – before Gaye’s plative vol illumat the openg lyric: “I bet you’re wonrg how I knew.

” From there, ’s his voice that brgs home the narrative le after le, chned by strgs played by the Detro Symphony Orchtra: his falsetto rasps through a longg for his lover; his tenor registers a fiant rignatn to losg key te of Gaye’s solo work is this palpable sense of loss and the attendant sadns that exists jt beneath the surface of his sentiment. This is the qutsence of his soul mic, the knife-edge balance of oppos that momentarily rencil to create a newfound had the first solo h of his reer, Gaye was characteristilly rigned and dismissive, tellg a reporter that he “didn’t serve ”. Her ath ls than a year later would send him to a profound prsn, one that would leave him rolved to leave Motown and to ultimately create his nceptual masterwork What’s Gog On , Gaye would tablish himself as the bad boy of Motown, both a figurehead for risg anti-Vietnam sentiment and archetype of the socially nsc songwrer.