"I believed every word of the song. It was happening to me."
26 May 2024 at 06:44
The personal anguish underlying Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," perhaps the greatest song in Motown history, is starkly evident in the recording's haunting isolated vocal track (SLYT).
In a two part podcast series, scholar Andrew Hickey traces the convoluted history of a song that the label never thought would be a hit, and the lives of the many performers that shaped it. The episodes are part of Hickey's monumental History of Rock Music in 500 Songs series (recently and maddeningly on the blue here, and previously and previously).
In a two part podcast series, scholar Andrew Hickey traces the convoluted history of a song that the label never thought would be a hit, and the lives of the many performers that shaped it. The episodes are part of Hickey's monumental History of Rock Music in 500 Songs series (recently and maddeningly on the blue here, and previously and previously).