Gladys Knight
Biography
One of the great soul singers, Gladys Knight was a performer from her childhood years, forming the Pips with her brother Merald and a couple cousins. They made the Top Ten in 1961 with the heavily doo wop-influenced "Every Beat of My Heart," and recorded some fine, nowadays overlooked pop-soul sides for the Fury and Maxx labels in the early and mid-'60s, sometimes under the direction of songwriter Van McCoy. A couple singles from this period, "Letter Full of Tears" and "Giving Up," made the Top 40, but Knight didn't hit her commercial stride until she moved to Motown in 1966. Steeped in the gospel tradition, like so many soul singers, Knight & the Pips developed into one of Motown's most dependable acts, although they never quite scaled the commercial or artistic heights of fellow stars on the label like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations. With Norman Whitfield providing the production and much of the songwriting, the Pips fit into the mainstream of Motown's machine well, scoring big hits with some rabble-rousers (like "Friendship Train" and the original version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), mainstream midtempo soul ("It Should Have Been Me" and "The End of Our Road"), and smooth ballads like "If I Were Your Woman." . In 1973, Knight had her biggest Motown hit with "Neither One of Us," which made number two; shortly afterward, she and the Pips left Motown for Buddah. The group members were briefly superstars in 1973-1974, reeling off the smashes "Midnight Train to Georgia" (their only number one), "I've Got to Use My Imagination," and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me." This ranked as some of their best material, but Knight soon moved toward an easy listening, adult contemporary direction, one that she's maintained to this day. Now performing separately from the Pips (who have retired), her days as a high-charting star ended after the mid-'70s, although she remains fairly popular, and maintained an active recording career into the new millennium, releasing At Last, an album of urban R&B, on MCA in 2000; One Voice, a gospel set, on Many Roads Records in 2005; and Before Me, an album of jazz standards, on Verve in 2006.
Top Albums |
1. Where My Hea..
| 2. Before Me
| 3. Just for You
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6. Another Jour..
| 7. At Last
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| 9. The Best of ..
| 10. Good Woman
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11. Masters of t..
| 12. Everybody Ne..
| 13. I Who Have N..
| 14. Letter Full ..
| 15. The Legend C..
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16. So Sad The S..
| 17. Giving Up - ..
| 18. Gladys Knigh..
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| 20. I Who Have N..
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Top Songs |
| Name | Album | Time | Price | |
1. | Midst of the Rain | Where My Heart Belongs | 3:52 | $1.29 | |
2. | Midnight Train to Georgia | Midnight Train | 4:42 | $0.99 | |
3. | I Hope You Dance | Another Journey | 5:47 | $0.99 | |
4. | Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me | Midnight Train | 3:50 | $0.99 | |
5. | Always | Where My Heart Belongs | 4:40 | $1.29 | |
6. | There is a Green Hill Far Away | Where My Heart Belongs | 2:07 | $1.29 | |
7. | Life | Where My Heart Belongs | 5:22 | $1.29 | |
8. | Need You Love You | Where My Heart Belongs | 4:45 | $1.29 | |
9. | Happy Birthday Jesus : Sweet Little .. | Where My Heart Belongs | 5:12 | $1.29 | |
10. | Just Look Up | Where My Heart Belongs | 4:02 | $1.29 | |
11. | Were You There | Where My Heart Belongs | 3:37 | $1.29 | |
12. | Champions | Where My Heart Belongs | 4:29 | $1.29 | |
13. | Immersed | Where My Heart Belongs | 3:50 | $1.29 | |
14. | Come See About Me | L.G.B.T Total Pop Party | 2:49 | $0.99 | |
15. | I Want That Kind of Love | Love Songs | 2:36 | $0.99 | |
16. | Lovers Always Forgive | Love Songs | 2:32 | $0.99 | |
17. | Come See About Me | Love Songs | 2:05 | $0.99 | |
18. | Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me | Legend Collection: Gladys K.. | 3:52 | $0.99 | |
19. | Where Peaceful Waters Flow | Legend Collection: Gladys K.. | 4:31 | $0.99 | |
20. | Way We Were / Try to Remember | Legend Collection: Gladys K.. | 4:33 | $0.99 | |
21. | Every Beat of My Heart | Legend Collection: Gladys K.. | 1:59 | $0.99 | |
22. | Midnight Train to Georgia | Legend Collection: Gladys K.. | 4:37 | $0.99 | |
23. | It Hurts So Bad | Masters of the Last Century.. | 2:42 | $0.99 | |
24. | Way We Were / Try To Remember | Masters of the Last Century.. | 4:33 | $0.99 | |
25. | So Sad the Song | Masters of the Last Century.. | 3:53 | $0.99 | |
Top Music Videos |
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