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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Those roots explain a lot about how I Heard It Through the Grapevine arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers and The Temptations, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around I Heard It Through the Grapevine, reaching back through Ray Charles and forward to Gladys Knight & the Pips. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
IHI Heard It Through the GrapevineRay CharlesAretha FranklinGladys Knight & the …The MiraclesMarvin GayeBobby Taylor & The V…The TemptationsThe Undisputed TruthCreedence Clearwater…Roger Troutman

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine connections

I Heard It Through the Grapevine grew out of Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, went on to shape Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Miracles, Marvin Gaye and Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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