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Barrett Strong
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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Most people know Grapevine through Marvin Gaye or Creedence, but one of the two men who wrote it cut it himself, and 2Pac's song carries his name in the credits. Play the writer's take, then hear what 2Pac built on top of it.
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Written by Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield.
Recorded earlier by Barrett Strong.
Also recorded by Marvin Gaye (1968), Gladys Knight & the Pips (1967), Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970), Martha Reeves (1981).
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2Pac's "Holler If Ya Hear Me" samples "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Which of that song's writers also put it on record himself, before 2Pac got to it?Barrett Strong
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