I Heard It Through The Grapevine is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded in the beginning of 1967 but the third to be released. It appeared on his 1968 album In The Groove a year and a half later where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys. Motown founder Berryb Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single on the Tamla subsidiary in October 1968; the record went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969, overtaking the Gladys Knight & the Pips version as the biggest hit single on the Motown family of labels up to that point. This single is in Very Good condition with some wear to the labels.

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