"I Heard It Through The Grapevine"

[Jamie (K)]

Actually, it's a Motown version. That style is like a mixture of rock & roll and gospel music.

[Jamie (K)]

Actually, here is the first remake, also from Motown by Marvin Gaye. This is what CCR were imitating.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

Ah yes, I forgot that since we're not familiar with R&B here. But I think R&B is a kind of Jazz as well. Like jazzy blues.

kind regards.

[Jamie (K)]

It's not jazz or jazzy blues. As I said, it's more like rock & roll mixed with gospel. Except for the lyrics, you often can't tell it apart from black gospel music. Americans can tell R&B from blues and jazz, and people like me can even hear which old records were recorded in Detroit, and which in Philadelphia. (That's when it was possible for musicians to become famous from Detroit or Philadelphia. Later, the Canadian government unwittingly ruined the Detroit music industry, and I guess Philadelphia was done in by centralization in the broadcasting and recording industries.)

The studio musicians on these recordings included rock musicians, jazz musicians and members of the Detroit Symphony. Some of the symphony musicians had trouble with the rhythms and the chord progressions, but the ones from overseas who were used to playing Hungarian folk music, for example, thought the music was easy.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

You're very musical too. Thank you.

kind regards.