Only a year after Gladys Knight and the Pips took it to the top of the R&B chart, Marvin made ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine‘ his for keeps. Even among the tall trees without number in the ...

The checkered story of ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ included Gladys and the group’s R&B No.1 version, before Marvin took ownership of the song. The checkered story of “I Heard It Thr ...

He sang the label's first major hit, Money (That's What I Want), in 1959, and went on to co-write classic songs like I Heard It Through the Grapevine, War and Papa Was a Rollin' Stone. Those hits ...

Written in 1967 by the Motown hit-making team of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, the song had already been ... recording "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". Marvin Gaye on artists' rights ...