Well, am I being bitchy? I've always thought this was not a very good album cover for a song of such stature and importance. Name: i heard it through the grapevine.jpg Views: 565 Size: 30.2 KB

The smile, the arms outstretched; always makes me think that this is exactly the sort of album cover you'd get if someone like Frank Sinatra or Andy Williams did an album featuring this song, in an attempt to seem "with it."

Marvin's version of "Grapevine" is so weighty, so moody, so very dark that somehow a vision of Marvin smiling [[and smiling broadly) on the album cover makes it seem as if Motown thought the song was a show tune to be belted out with gusto; just as one of those old-line show-biz singers like Ethel Merman would have sung it.

Motown's art department kinda blew it on this one... Now I'm finished hurling my sour grapes!