In 1971 Howerd recorded, with June Whitfield, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime ", made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis " alongside Howerd's " Frank ", and a third unexplained sleeping partner named " Arthur ".

In 1971 Whitfield recorded, with Frankie Howerd, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime, originally made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis ".

Producer Norman Whitfield recorded four versions of the song with various artists for potential single release ; Knight and the Pips ' version was the only one that Motown chief Berry Gordy did not veto.

Entitled Up the Bracket, it was recorded at the RAK studios in St John's Wood, with mixing taking place at Whitfield studios.

Cover versions of her hits have been recorded by Madeline Bell, The Belle Stars, Laura Branigan, Aaron Carter, Gary Glitter, Ricardo Ray, Pia Zadora, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Gladys Knight and the Pips ( a version of " The Nitty Gritty ", produced by Norman Whitfield ).

Originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles in 1966 ; that version was rejected by Motown owner Berry Gordy, who told Whitfield and Strong to make a stronger version.

After recording the song with Marvin Gaye in 1967, which Gordy also rejected, Whitfield recorded a version with Gladys Knight & the Pips, which Gordy agreed to release as a single in September 1967, and which went to number two in the Billboard chart.

Producer Norman Whitfield recorded " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " with various Motown artists.

Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded " Grapevine " on June 17, 1967 in Motown's Studio A, with Norman Whitfield as producer.

Gladys Knight was not pleased that Gaye's version usurped her own, and claimed that Gaye's version was recorded over an instrumental track Whitfield had prepared for a Pips song, an allegation Gaye denied.

In 2004, it was placed at number 80 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, with the comment that Whitfield had recorded the song with a number of artists with different arrangements, and that with Marvin Gaye he had a " golden idea " when he set the song " in a slower, more mysterious tempo ".

The hits he recorded and produced earned him The National Association of Television and Radio Announcers Producer of the Year Award in 1970, against competition from other nominees including Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Norman Whitfield.

He found a songwriting collaborator in lyricist Barrett Strong, the performer on Motown's first hit record, " Money ( That's What I Want )", and wrote material for The Temptations and other Motown artists such as Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, both of whom recorded Whitfield-produced hit versions of the Whitfield / Strong composition " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".

" I Can't Get Next to You " is a 1969 number-one single recorded by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield for the Gordy ( Motown ) label.

Whitfield arranged and recorded the non-orchestral elements of the instrumental with Motown's studio band, The Funk Brothers, who for this recording included Eddie " Chank " Willis on guitar, Jack Ashford on marimba, Jack Brokensha on timpani, Andrew Smith on drums, and Bob Babbitt on bass.

After his departure, the group re-recorded " It's Summer ", the b-side to " Ball of Confusion ", as a last-minute replacement single, and Norman Whitfield had " Smiling Faces Sometimes " recorded as a hit for The Undisputed Truth.

Three years later, Motown artist Marvin Gaye recorded a cover version of " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby " as a follow-up single to his 1968 hit " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", another Whitfield / Strong composition.

" That's the Way Love Is " is a 1967 Tamla ( Motown ) single recorded by The Isley Brothers and produced by Norman Whitfield, later covered in a 1969 hit version by Marvin Gaye.

Whitfield later revisited the song for the 1973 album Ma, recorded by Motown's white rock band, Rare Earth, which he produced and wrote.

The group recorded its follow-up, " He Was Really Sayin ' Somethin '", with Whitfield again producing, and spent time on various Motown-sponsored tours as a support act.

The album featured three top 40 hits as well as Norman Whitfield compositions " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby " ( originally recorded by labelmates The Temptations ), " That's The Way Love Is " ( originally recorded by The Isley Brothers ) and a cover of Gladys Knight and the Pips ' " The End of Our Road ".

The Car Wash soundtrack album, entirely recorded by Rose Royce and Whitfield, spawned two more successful singles: " I Wanna Get Next to You " and " I'm Going Down " ( later covered in 1994 by Mary J. Blige ).

Previous Whitfield co-compositions such as " Gonna Keep on Tryin ' ( Till I Win Your Love )" ( from the Temptations ' Cloud Nine album ), " I'm the Exception to the Rule " ( recorded by The Velvelettes in 1964 ), and " Throw a Farewell Kiss " ( also a Velvelettes original ) were revived and recorded for this album.

* " Mama " ( David Whitfield song ), also covered by Connie Francis and others

He also has released a 4 song digital only project entitled " One True Thing " with singer / songwriter Michael Whitfield.

Holland – Dozier – Holland are mentioned ( along with the Four Tops and their vocalist Levi Stubbs, as well as Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong ) in the lyrics of the song " Levi Stubbs ' Tears " from the 1986 Billy Bragg album Talking with the Taxman about Poetry ; and also in the lyrics of The Magnetic Fields ' song " The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure ", from their 1999 album 69 Love Songs.

" I Heard It Through the Grapevine " is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966, and made famous in a version by Marvin Gaye released as a single in October 1968 on Motown's Tamla label.

Producer Norman Whitfield worked with Strong on the song, adding lyrics to Strong's basic Ray Charles influenced gospel tune and the single chorus line of " I heard it through the grapevine ".

Whitfield wanted Gaye to perform the song in a higher key than his normal range, a move that had worked on David Ruffin during the recording of the Temptations ' hit, " Ain't Too Proud to Beg ".

According to David Ritz, Whitfield set to record a song that would " out-funk " Aretha.

" Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone " is a soul song, written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong as a single for Motown act The Undisputed Truth in 1971.

Later in 1972, Whitfield, who also produced the song, took " Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone " and remade it as a 12-minute record for The Temptations, which was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in 1973.

The song, the anchor of the 1972 Temptations album All Directions, won three 1973 Grammys: its a-side won for Best R & B Vocal Performance by a Group ; its b-side won for Best R & B Instrumental ( awarded to Whitfield and arranger / conductor Paul Riser ); and Whitfield and Barrett Strong won for Best R & B Song as the song's composers.

Whitfield and Strong wrote the song in 1969, but with the Temptations ' psychedelic soul singles consistently keeping them in the US Top 20, Whitfield and Strong decided to shelve the composition and wait for the right time to record it.

In late 1970, the Temptations ' single " Ungena Za Ulimwengu ( Unite the World )", a psychedelic soul song about world peace, failed to reach the Top 30, and Whitfield decided to record and release " Just My Imagination " as the next single.

Shortly after, Paul becomes well enough to sing again, and the Temptations record a new song written by their producer Norman Whitfield called Just My Imagination.

" Hum Along and Dance " is a soul song written for the Motown label by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.

BBC Radio 4 dramatised all of the novels from 1993-2001 with June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

Leading cryptography scholar Martin Hellman discusses the circumstances and fundamental insights of his invention of public key cryptography with collaborators Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle at Stanford University in the mid-1970s.

Hellman describes his invention of public key cryptography with collaborators Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle at Stanford University in the mid-1970s.

* In 1972 he released, with June Whitfield, " Wonderful Children's Songs " on the Contour label ( catalogue 2870191 )

It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks.

* Je t ' aime ( 1971, with June Whitfield )

He also appeared in BBC1's popular domestic sitcom Terry and June with June Whitfield.

In 1968, June Whitfield and Terry Scott began their long television partnership which peaked with roles as husband and wife in Happy Ever After ( 1974 – 78 ) and Terry and June ( 1979 – 87 ).

In 1944, Whitfield graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a diploma.

In 1998, Whitfield played the housekeeper in the London-set episode of Friends " The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two " and voiced a character in an episode of the animated comedy series Rex the Runt.

In 2000, her autobiography And June Whitfield appeared, written with the help of Christopher Douglas.

Others with local connections include actors Roger Moore, Simon Callow, Peter Davison, Nicholas Clay, Neil Pearson and June Whitfield, saucy seaside postcard artist Donald McGill and comedians Eddie Izzard, Jeremy Hardy and Paul Merton.

Nathan B. Whitfield noted in his journal that those from Mobile had taken every available vacant house and the others were crowded with natives along with their descendants and relatives.

Some musicians changed their sound completely to co-opt that of Sly and the Family Stone, most notably Motown in-house producer Norman Whitfield, who took his main act The Temptations into " psychedelic soul " territory starting with the Grammy-winning " Cloud Nine " in 1968 .< ref name = temptations >

By the mid-1960s, the label, with the help of songwriters and producers such as Robinson, A & R chief William " Mickey " Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Norman Whitfield, was a major force in the music industry.

In several cases, producers would re-work tracks in hopes of eventually getting them approved at a later Friday morning meeting, as producer Norman Whitfield did with " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and The Temptations ' " Ain't Too Proud to Beg ".

Strangers on a Train previewed on March 5, 1951 at the Huntington Park Theatre, with Alma, Jack Warner, Whitfield Cook and Barbara Keon in the Hitchcock party and it won a prize from the Screen Directors Guild.

Former print journalist Whitfield Sharp assisted the families in their media campaign to clear DeSalvo's name, to assist in organizing and arranging the exhumations of Mary A. Sullivan and Albert H. DeSalvo, in filing various lawsuits in attempts to obtain information and trace evidence ( e. g., DNA ) from the government, and to work with various producers to create documentaries to explain the facts to the public.

The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook, Ranald MacDougall and Alma Reville ( the director's wife ), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson.

Hellman describes his invention of public key cryptography with collaborators Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle at Stanford University in the mid-1970s.

The American whaler ship John Howland ( with Captain William H. Whitfield in command ) rescued them and, at the end of the voyage, dropped four of them in Honolulu ; however Manjirō ( nicknamed " John Mung ") wanted to stay on the ship.