When people want to be circumspect about sharing their source of information, they sometimes say they “heard it through the grapevine.” “I heard through the grapevine Steve and Betty are ...

It’s a pop song reimagined as a nervous breakdown. By the time “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” hit #1, the song had been sitting there for more than two years. Barrett Strong was the ...

“I Heard it Through the Grapevine” is one of the many songs that define the Motown sound. Co-written by legendary songwriters and producers Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, the song made ...

He was 81. Strong is perhaps best known for his collaborations with fellow Motown hitmaker Norman Whitfield, which include Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” and Edwin Starr ...

Those included “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” for Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, “War” for Edwin Starr, the Undisputed Truth’s “Smiling Faces Sometimes” and a wealth ...