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Saturday Night Classics -- I Heard It Through the Grapevine

OldPhil
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I've always enjoyed the more popular versions of this tune by Gladys Knight and the Pips and Marvin Gaye, but Creedence Clearwater Revival's interpretation always appealed to me as the "gritty" version, like many of their hits. The first one below is the original 11-minute album cut, but a shorter four-minute one is also attached if you want to zip through it instead. The short recording was issued as a single, supposedly against the band's wishes.

The song had an interesting history. Written by Motown's Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, it was recorded first by the Miracles (before the later Gaye and Knight recordings), but Berry Gordy seemed resistant to releasing any of them until finally agreeing to issue the Knight one, the last to be recorded. It went big, encouraging the release of Gaye's version, which topped Billboard's charts for seven weeks.

Enjoy!

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