{"id":497,"date":"2010-09-24T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?p=497"},"modified":"2010-09-24T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:24:24","slug":"92410-the-i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine-cat-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/2010\/09\/24\/92410-the-i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine-cat-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/24\/10 &#8211; The &#8220;I Heard It Through The Grapevine&#8221; Cat Fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday Night Cat Fight Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;I Heard It Through The Grapevine&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"I Heard It Through The Grapevine Cat Fight\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_tD8RFE7odQ8\/Rv8Y0N4tzCI\/AAAAAAAAAyE\/qPlBcDgRGeI\/s320\/california_raisin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>This week&#8217;s Cat Fight takes the classic Motown tune and spins every charting version of the song from Smokey Robinson &amp; The Miracles original unreleased version to The California Raisins&#8217; 1988 near-miss.\u00a0 In the middle, you&#8217;ll find mega-hit versions by Gladys Knight and The Pips and Marvin Gaye.\u00a0 Creedence&#8217;s eleven minute version from 1970 was issued as a three minute single in 1976 and just missed hitting the Pop Top 40, while Roger took the tune BACK to #1 on the R&amp;B charts in 1981.\u00a0 Vote for your favorite version of this classic tune. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Listen, vote &amp; dig, baby!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><div id=\"polls-84\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_84\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/FNCF\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_84_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"fe98a7655b\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"84\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which One Do You DIG The MOST? - \"I Heard It Through The Grapevine\"<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-84-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-284\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"284\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-284\">Smokey Robinson &amp; The Miracles (1966)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-285\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"285\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-285\">Gladys Knight &amp; The Pips (1967)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-286\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"286\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-286\">Marvin Gaye (1968)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-287\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"287\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-287\">King Curtis &amp; The Kingpins (1968)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-288\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"288\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-288\">Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970 &amp; 1976)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-289\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"289\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-289\">Roger (1981)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-290\" name=\"poll_84\" value=\"290\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-290\">The California Raisins (1988)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(84);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(84);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(84); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(84); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-84-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3702\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-497-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF88.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF88.mp3\">https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF88.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF88.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?powerpress_pinw=497-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF88.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"FNCF88.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Matt The Cat present 7 versions of &#8220;I Heard It Through The Grapevine&#8221; for your vote from Smokey Robinson&#8217;s original in 1966 to the California Raisins&#8217; near-miss in 1988 on the Friday Night Cat Fight Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rb","category-rock-n-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}