November 23, 2015

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Roger - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Part 1) / I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Part 2) (1981) - single

Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 – April 25, 1999) was an American composer, songwriter, producer and the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and heavily influenced west coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music over the years. Troutman was well known for his use of the vocoder or the talk box, a device that is connected to an instrument (frequently a keyboard) to create different vocal effects. Roger used a custom-made talkbox the Electro Harmonix "Golden Throat," as well as a Yamaha DX100 FM synthesizer. As both band leader of Zapp and in his subsequent solo releases, he scored a bevy of funk and R&B hits throughout the 1980s.
In 1981, upon the fast-paced success of Zapp's first album, Troutman cut his first solo album, “The Many Facets of Roger”. Featuring his frenetic funk cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", the song exploded to number one on the R&B singles chart helping the album sell over a million copies.

A - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Part 1)  (3:38)
Written-By – Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield / Producer – Roger Troutman
B - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Part 2)  (3:25)
Written-By – Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield / Producer – Roger Troutman

Genre:  Electronic Funk
Label:  Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#  WB 17852

(P) 1981

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