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Marvin Gaye's version of the song is used in the opening credits of The Big Chill (1983) as each of the main characters gets to hear (through the "grapevine") about the death of their college friend, and then travels to his funeral; the song serves in an extradiegetic fashion to both unite the main characters' friendship and to locate it ...
In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, Marvin Gaye was at number one with "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", the song's fourth week in the top spot. [3] Gaye returned to number one in June with "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" and was one of three acts to have two number ones in 1969 along with James Brown and the Temptations. Gaye's ...
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (né Gay; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) [1] was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
In the Groove is the eighth studio album by the American soul musician Marvin Gaye, released on August 26, 1968, on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records.It was the first solo studio album Gaye released in two years, in which during that interim, the singer had emerged as a successful duet partner with female R&B singers such as Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell.
American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, four live albums, one soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums, and 83 singles.In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown.
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Marvin Gaye had three number ones ("Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", "You're All I Need to Get By" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine") in 1968, two of them duets with Tammi Terrell. "Tighten Up" was a chart-topper for Archie Bell & the Drells. South African trumpeter Hugh Masakela (pictured in 2013) topped the chart with "Grazing in the ...
Marvin Gaye made the UK top 10 for the first time this year with three singles making the countdown, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", which spent three weeks at number-one. Bobbie Gentry secured two UK top 10 singles in 1969, including chart-topper "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".