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| | I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Gaye's version of "I Heard It through the Grapevine" outsold Gladys Knight and the Pips' version, and until the release of The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" twenty months later, it was the biggest hit single ever released on Motown. |
 | | The narrator confronts the lover, and explains, through the lyrics, that, although the betrayal hurts the narrator deeply, it is the fact that the lover refused to inform the narrator of the infidelity that hurts the most. |
 | | Their version of "I Heard It through the Grapevine" became the California Raisins' signature song, an obvious pun on the fact that they, as raisins, originated from "the grapevine" themselves. |
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