I Heard It Through the Grapeve by Marv Gaye - Songfacts

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• ‘I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE’: HOW MARV GAYE CLAIMED A SOUL CLASSIC
• 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 VIEWER148K 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 ‘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 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 VIEWER148K 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. 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. 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.