"I Hear It Through the Grapevine" is a R&B/soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. The Funk Brothers, created the tune. Whitfield recorded several different versions of the song with several different Motown acts, and two of those versions became hits: one version by Gladys Knight & the Pips became a number-two hit in the United States in 1967, while the version by Marvin Gaye became a number-one hit in the UK and the U.S. in 1968. Marvin Gaye's version is #80 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.