In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for 'historical, artistic and significant' value. The Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic. Motown founder Berry Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single on the Tamla subsidiary in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969, overtaking the Gladys Knight & the Pips version as the biggest hit single on the Motown family of labels up to that point.

It was placed on his 1968 album In the Groove, a year and a half later, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys. The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967, but the third to be released.

The Miracles were the first to record the song in 1966, but their version was not released until August 1968, when it was included on their album Special Occasion. It went to number one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.

The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight & the Pips and released as a single in September 1967. ' I Heard It Through the Grapevine' is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966.

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