I know several people sang it, including marvin gaye and ray charles ~I think did a bit on it for the raisins...I'm not sure.
2006-09-07 02:53:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Written in '67, by Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong, who were songwriters for Motown.
And for all of you who keep saying Marvin Gaye, the ORIGINAL version of this song was performed by Gladys Knight & The Pips. Gaye's version came a year later.
2006-09-07 02:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Smokeater 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"I Heard It through the Grapevine" is an R&B/soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1967. Whitfield recorded several different versions of the song with several different Motown acts, and two of those versions became hits: one version by Gladys Knight & the Pips became a number-two hit in the United States in 1967, while a version by Marvin Gaye became a number-one hit in the U.S. in 1968.
Gaye's version, the most notable recording of the song, was his first number-one hit, and was the most successful single released by Motown in the 1960s. Since the releases of the original hit versions of the song, "I Heard It through the Grapevine" has been heavily covered, most notably an extended 1970 version by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
2006-09-07 02:59:01 · answer #2 · answered by tui 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The California Raisins
2006-09-07 02:58:36 · answer #3 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norman whitfield wrote it but marvin gaye sang it
This Motown classic was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Strong came up with the idea, and asked Motown writers Holland/Dozier/Holland to work on it with him. They refused to credit another writer, so Strong took it to Whitfield, who helped put it together.
Whitfield and Strong recorded this with Gaye in 1967
2006-09-07 02:57:41 · answer #4 · answered by pmwolfo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marvin Gaye!!
2006-09-07 02:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by Woe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marvin Gaye wrote it and recorded it before Credence Clearwater Revival( CCR ) recorded it.
2006-09-07 02:55:19 · answer #6 · answered by John M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote it in 1967.
2006-09-07 02:57:49 · answer #7 · answered by Erin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was Marvin Gaye but it was recorded by CCR also.
2006-09-07 02:55:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Fogerty of CCR
2006-09-07 02:55:21 · answer #9 · answered by jb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think Marvin wrote. it if not Holland and dozier of Motown fame probably wrote it.
2006-09-07 02:59:55 · answer #10 · answered by punkin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋