"Through the grapevine" is a term associated with how word or rumor travels between people/friends. You tell someone, they tell someone, etc etc...traveling on "through the grapevine". As to the source of the actual term....I'm not entirely sure.
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
The trail of clues was a veritable grapevine to follow.
Heard it through the grapevine. It was a saying long before it was a song.
The cast of I Heard It Through the Grapevine - 1982 includes: James Baldwin David Baldwin
Ghetto Grapevine refers to a type of rumor passing through a ghetto community. They use grapevine because a vine wiggles and passes through things, the vine is the rumor passing its way through people...but through a ghetto community.
this is a communication barrier characterized by false information or hearsays. gossip As in, "I heard it through the grapevine..." Grapevine communication is a form of informal business communication, which develops within an organization.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine - 1982 was released on: USA: 3 March 1982 (New York City, New York)
Soultans - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
If you mean the idiom "heard it through the grapevine," this phrase dates from the invention of the telegraph. People realized that gossip can travel nearly as fast as if a telegraph wire were used. They called this the "grapevine telegraph" to distinguish it from the wire telegraph, because of the coiling tendrils of the grapevine that resembled wires.
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
I heard it through the grapevine
gossip As in, "I heard it through the grapevine..." Grapevine communication is a form of informal business communication, which develops within an organization.It means gossip, usually gossip that spreads and covers a lot of ground (a lot of people), much like vines do.