"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixqofv-Oi74
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzTr2P0AJo
"Car Wash" is a song by the American soul and #RAndB band #RoseRoyce. Written and arranged by the ex-#Motown producer #NormanWhitfield, the song was the group's first single and one of the most notable successes of the 1970s #disco era. "#CarWash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful single and the #leadSingle from their first studio album, the Car Wash soundtrack. Reaching number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2xng3jymM
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmS961An4c
"Pride and Joy" is a 1963 single by #MarvinGaye, released on the #Tamla label. The single, co-written by #WilliamMickeyStevenson, Gaye and #NormanWhitfield, and produced by Stevenson, was considered to be a tribute to Gaye's then-girlfriend, #AnnaGordy. The album version of the single featured on Gaye's second album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5KvX5c7Uxo
#OnThisDay in 1940, #NormanWhitfield, American songwriter and producer for Motown ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; "Just My Imagination"; "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"), born in New York City (d. 2008). 
#RIP
Ted Tocks Covers
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Originally posted on March 26, 2018
On this day in 1969, #MarvinGaye was at the top of the U.K. singles chart with this classic song written by #BarrettStrong and #NormanWhitfield
“Ooh, bet you're wonderin' how I knew
'Bout your plan to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before
Between the two of us guys
You know I loved you more
It took me by surprise, I must say
When I found out yesterday”
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine/
Ted Tocks Covers · I Heard it Through the Grapevine – A song that passed through a few hands before becoming a classic. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #GladysKnightandthePips #MarvinGaye #CreedenceClearwaterRevival #TheCaliforniaRaisins.Back on February 5th I featured a song called ‘Ball of Confusion’ that was written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield. Today’s song is another collaboration between Strong and…
Ted Tocks Covers
Ball of Confusion
Originally posted on February 5, 2018.
Remembering the lyrical brilliance of Barrett Strong
“Vote for me and I’ll set you free”
…But don’t think ‘He’ cares…
…and the beat goes on…
#TheTemptations #BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #loveandrockets
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/ball-of-confusion/
Ted Tocks Covers · Ball of Confusion – That’s what the world is today. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #TheTemptations #BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #LoveandRocketsSongwriter Barrett Strong was born on this day in 1941. You may not know his name but he wrote some Motown classics, including ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’, ‘Money’, ‘Wa…
"Pride and Joy" is a 1963 single by #MarvinGaye, released on the #Tamla label. The single, co-written by #WilliamMickeyStevenson, Gaye and #NormanWhitfield, and produced by Stevenson, was considered to be a tribute to Gaye's then-girlfriend, #AnnaGordy. The album version of the single featured on Gaye's second album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5KvX5c7Uxo
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWHpbpNdHE
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixqofv-Oi74
"Car Wash" is a song by the American soul and #RAndB band #RoseRoyce. Written and arranged by the ex-#Motown producer #NormanWhitfield, the song was the group's first single and one of the most notable successes of the 1970s #disco era. "#CarWash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful single and the #leadSingle from their first studio album, the Car Wash soundtrack. Reaching number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIg7fagvnw
"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" is a #Motown song written by #NormanWhitfield, #BarrettStrong, and #JanieBradford. The song was first recorded by #TheTemptations as a track on their 1966 album #GettinReady. #EddieKendricks sings lead on the recording, which was produced by Whitfield. #JimmyRuffin also recorded a version with The Temptations providing background vocals in 1966. It remained unreleased until 1997. Three years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaWWV70we0s
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjJLMHRHFI
"Cloud Nine" is a 1968 hit single recorded by #TheTemptations for the #Motown label. It was the first of their singles to feature #DennisEdwards instead of #DavidRuffin in the lineup, was the first of producer #NormanWhitfield's #psychedelicSoul tracks, and won Motown its first #GrammyAward. The song was written by Whitfield and former Motown artist #BarrettStrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOgTGlCw7Q
"Car Wash" is a song by the American soul and #RAndB band #RoseRoyce. Written and arranged by the ex-#Motown producer #NormanWhitfield, the song was the group's first single and one of the most notable successes of the 1970s #disco era. "#CarWash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful single and the #leadSingle from their first studio album, the Car Wash soundtrack. Reaching number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB0aROCl530
"Smiling Faces Sometimes" is a #soul song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for the #Motown label. It was originally recorded by #theTemptations in 1971. #Producer Norman Whitfield had the song re-recorded by #theUndisputedTruth the same year, resulting in a number-three #Billboard #Hot100 position for the group. "Smiling Faces" was the #onlyTop40Single released by the Undisputed Truth, and was included on their debut album The Undisputed Truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld30uZzwNig
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 song and hit single by #theTemptations for #MotownRecords' Gordy label, produced by #NormanWhitfield and written by Whitfield and #EdwardHollandJr The song peaked at number 13 on the #Billboard Pop Chart, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B charts for eight non-consecutive weeks. The song's success, in the wake of the relative underperformance of the previous Temptations' single, "#GetReady".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OSdjw4MB4
#OnThisDay in 2008, #NormanWhitfield, American songwriter and producer for Motown ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), died at 68. 
#RIP
"Car Wash" is a song by the American soul and #RAndB band #RoseRoyce. Written and arranged by the ex-#Motown producer #NormanWhitfield, the song was the group's first single and one of the most notable successes of the 1970s #disco era. "#CarWash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful single and the #leadSingle from their first studio album, the Car Wash soundtrack. Reaching number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB0aROCl530