Song · Gladys Knight & The Pips
“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by Gladys Knight & The Pips
From the album 100% Motown 60’s (2002)
“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by Gladys Knight & The Pips appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2009. It was first released in 2002 on the album 100% Motown 60’s. Its best result is #783 on the WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009).
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Gladys Knight & the Pips were the first to put out "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", the song Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote for Motown in 1966. Whitfield produced their version himself, and it came out as a seven-inch in September 1967.
It stormed to the top of Billboard's R&B chart and stopped one place short on the pop side, and before long it was the biggest-selling single Motown had released up to then. Decades on, in 2018, the Pips' take went into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 783 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
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