Creedence Clearwater Revival, ”I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
Marvin Gaye’s original? Yes. The Slits’ cover? Absolutely. This? No, no, no. It’s always been a mystery how this cover — which somehow managed to convert Gaye’s succinct, soulful original into an overwrought, drawn-out 11-minute dirge — managed to be so successful.





