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To: jocon307; Jonty30
But I always thing Burdon & Co. had the edge, because to me that song makes more sense from a man. But, she did write it. So, ART!

The song Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood was written by three men. But specifically, one man, Horace Ott, started the song, after a fight with his girlfriend (later wife), so you have a good ear, about it making more sense coming from a man.

Gladys Knight was really mad a Motown because they released the Marvin Gaye version shortly after her version went #2, then the Gaye version went no. 1 for eight weeks and upstaged it. The Gaye version and one by Smokey Robinson were recorded before Knight and the Pips did it. Motown barely supported Gladys Knight's version, but it was the label's best selling single at that time. Strangely, Berry Gordon never liked any of the three versions, and had to be forced to release both of them. And of course, within two years, CCR did a long rock version of it.

Also, to what you were saying Jonty, one day I heard Gladys Knight's Midnight Train to Georgia on the radio, and I thought, "Wait a second, this is a country song." I looked it up, and the writer was indeed a country music guy.

In the 70s, especially, country musicians covered soul songs and vice versa. Think Barbara Mandrell covering Luther Ingram's (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right, Otis Redding's I've Been Loving You Too Long, and Joe Tex's Show Me.

26 posted on 09/16/2023 7:54:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I thought CCR’s cover of I Heard it through the Grapevine was better than Marvin Gaye’s.

Also Tina Turner’s cover of Proud Mary is better than CCR’s.

As an aside, I once phone a Christian radio station and requested Proud Mary by Christian Cross Revival. They said never heard of it. So, I asked why they have have never heard of CCR?


31 posted on 09/16/2023 8:16:08 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: nickcarraway

relating Smokey, Marvin, Gladys and CCR to “I Heard it Thru the Grapevine.”


42 posted on 09/17/2023 1:00:07 AM PDT by stylin19a (The #1 Golf rule you MUST follow: take car keys out of golf bag before throwing it into the creek)
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