‘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 VIEWER147.3K 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
• CA KHúC 'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE': CHặNG đườNG QUANH CủA MARV GAYE

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 VIEWER147.3K 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 GRAPEVINE CHORDS (ver 2) by 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.

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

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.

CA KHúC 'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE': CHặNG đườNG QUANH CủA MARV GAYE

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.

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. Điều này khiến không ít nghệ sĩ của hãng cảm thấy khó chịu, nhưng thỉnh thoảng ông thật sự nảy ra những ý tưởng diệu kỳ - như trường hợp phiên bản I Heard It Through the Grapeve (Anh đã nghe t đó qua giàn nho) năm 1968 của Marv Gaye, vốn đã thành công vang dội 1 năm trước đó nhờ The Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Whfield và đồng tác giả Barrett Strong đã để nhịp chậm hơn, bí ẩn hơn, và khúc - mà ban đầu Gaye từ chối thu âm - trở thành đĩa đơn Motown bán chạy nhất thập kỷ. "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" đã đưa Marv Gaye lên tầm o mớiS đó, Strong đã mời nhóm nhạc sĩ Holland-Dozier-Holland của Motown viết cùng nhưng bị từ chối. Whfield và Strong sớm tiếp cận Marv Gaye nhưng bản thu không được thông qua.

2 ở Mỹ khúc "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" qua giọng hát của Marv GayePhiên bản của Marv GayeTới đây, định mệnh một lần nữa vòng về với Marv Gaye. Trở lại trước đó, Whfield đã thu âm với Gaye trong suốt 5 phiên thu, bắt đầu từ 3/2/1967 tới tận 10/4/1967. Quá trình thu âm kéo dài như vậy bởi Whfield đã lồng quá nhiều giọng của Gaye trên giọng nền của nhóm The Andant.

Giữa Whfield và Gaye cũng nổ ra tranh cãi khi nhà sản xuất khăng khăng muốn sĩ hát ở âm vực o hơn quãng giọng thông thường của mình. Tại 1 phiên họp nổi tiếng vào thứ Sáu ở Motown để chọn ra đĩa đơn phát hành tiếp theo, I Heard It Through the Grapeve của Gaye nhận được sự ủng hộ của nhiều người.

Bộ đôi huyền thoại Norman Whfield và Barrett Strong"Cá nhân tôi thích I Heard It Through the Grapeve hơn" - Gordy s này viết trong tự tyện - "Nhưng tôi cảm thấy bản thu âm kia mang hơi hướng lãng mạn mà Gaye cần hơn". Với thành công của The Gladys Knight and the Pips, Whfield 1 lần nữa lại muốn Gordy phát hành bản của Gaye dưới dạng đĩa đơn nhưng lại bị từ chối vì Gordy không muốn tung 1 phiên bản nữa ngay s thành công của bản đầu. Tới tháng 8/1968, Whfield đành đưa I Heard It Through the Grapeve vào album mới In The Groove của Gaye.

Ca khúc lại thành h trên đài phát thanh và Gordy cuối cùng phải nhượng bộ, phát hành bản đĩa đơn cho Gaye vào ngày 30/10/1968. Phiên bản của Gaye nhanh chóng vượt mặt bản của The Gladys Knight and the Pips, trở thành đĩa đơn bán chạy nhất mọi thời đại ở Motown khi đó, chỉ mất ngôi vào I'll Be There của The Jackson 5 s 20 thá tới khi bản song Endls Love của Lnel Richie và Diana Ross đánh bại khúc với 9 tuần No. Đây cũng là h đầu tiên của Gaye, đưa anh lên tầm ngôi sao lớn.