Did anyone know about Grapevine Day?

[soulwally]

http://www.eurweb.com/2013/09/heard-it-through-the-grapevine-day-in-l-a/

Nice pix of the Whitfield family and the ever-elegant Paul Riser. And, erm, the California Raisin.

[marybrewster]

Cleo Hill Jackson - Motown Fashion Designer?

[soulwally]

Had me wondering too.

[thomas96]

She was a hair stylist in LA.

[MIKEW-UK]

From Blues And Soul Magazine.... An excerpt of an interview with Ron Isley
http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/870/ron_isley_the_names_isley/

We talk about the famed Motown days of course, and Ron tells me an astounding fact about why they left in 1968. “We did a lot of records there and a lot of people were jealous of our success, and complained to Berry Gordy that we were getting all the better songs. He took the records off us and gave them to other people."
“I first did the record Grapevine that Marvin did. He took it off me and gave it to Smokey, and he didn’t do it that well. Then Gladys Knight came along and she did a different version of it. Later on Marvin did the same version that I had done. The same thing happened with the Four Tops.”

[marv2]

I saw a good number of photos on the event , but I did not know what it truly was all about.

Here are some photos:

http://thepubliceye1.smugmug.com/Events/Heard-It-Through-The-Grapevine/32153947_MVwSL4#!i=2794418375&k=kGS7LRj

[midnightman]

^^ Ron Isley may prove this now but Motown archives haven't located it yet LOL