Marvin Gaye’s Basic Vocals on ‘I Heard It By the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Model

It’s onerous to consider, however Mar­vin Gaye’s clas­sic 1967 file­ing of “I Heard It By the Grapevine” was orig­i­nal­ly reject­ed by his file label. The music, a few man’s grief over hear­ing rumors of his lover’s infi­deli­ty, was writ­ten by the leg­endary Motown Data professional­duc­er Nor­man Whit­subject and singer Bar­rett Sturdy. Smokey Robin­son and the Mir­a­cles first…