Barrett Strong

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human recording artist songwriter

Barrett Strong was an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing several Motown classics, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."

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Label	Occurrences
Barrett Strong canonical	12

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
associatedWith	Berry Gordy NERFINISHED ⓘ Edwin Starr NERFINISHED ⓘ Marvin Gaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Motown Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Whitfield NERFINISHED ⓘ The Temptations NERFINISHED ⓘ
awardReceived	Grammy Award for Best R&B Song NERFINISHED ⓘ
awardReceivedFor	Papa Was a Rollin' Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
coWrote	Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cloud Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ I Heard It Through the Grapevine NERFINISHED ⓘ I Wish It Would Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) NERFINISHED ⓘ Money (That's What I Want) NERFINISHED ⓘ Papa Was a Rollin' Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ War NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Strong NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	popular music ⓘ recording arts ⓘ songwriting ⓘ
genre	Motown NERFINISHED ⓘ R&B ⓘ soul music ⓘ
givenName	Barrett NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	Motown sound NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	Barrett Strong NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	co-writing Motown classics ⓘ early hit single Money (That's What I Want) ⓘ
notableWork	Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cloud Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ I Heard It Through the Grapevine NERFINISHED ⓘ I Wish It Would Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) NERFINISHED ⓘ Money (That's What I Want) NERFINISHED ⓘ Papa Was a Rollin' Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ War NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
recordLabel	Motown ⓘ Tamla NERFINISHED ⓘ
vocalType	male voice ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

I Heard It Through the Grapevine → writer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

I Heard It Through the Grapevine → composer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Papa Was a Rollin' Stone → writer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) → writer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

I Can't Get Next to You → writer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Cloud Nine → songwriter → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) → songwriter → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Psychedelic Shack → producer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

All Directions → featuresSongwriter → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Money (That's What I Want) → performer → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Money (That's What I Want) → vocalist → Barrett Strong ⓘ

Money (That's What I Want) → firstRecordedBy → Barrett Strong ⓘ