Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1969)

The Miracles were the first to record this song in 1966, but their version wasn't released until August 1968 when it was included on their album "Special Occasion". The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967, but the third to be released. It was included on his 1968 album "In the Groove", a year and a half later, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys, and Motown founder Berry Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968 on the Tamla label, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969, and #1 on the UK Pop chart also as well as #1 R&B and overtook the Gladys Knight & the Pips' version becoming Motown's biggest hit single. The song is ranked #80 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of all time.

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