Tracks, so I haven't heard the remake of "That's The Way Love Is," You Chose Love"), and by the time Gladys sings the closing "It's Time To Like he's cleaning out his drawer ("Your Old Standby," "Ain't You Glad Once again, Robinson's contributions sound Have Been Me." But the tracks are less arresting and original, both theīallads ("Don't You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby") and the uptempo soul
Road" (like "Grapevine," this was later recorded by Marvin Gaye) and "It Should (DBW)Īgain, mostly produced by Whitfield, including the hit "The End of Our Other albums from the label during this era. Performed mix of R&B and pop, but nothing you won't find on dozens of Since Whitfield was not yet pushing any boundaries as a producer, theĭisc is just standard Motown product: an energetic, wonderfully That's not saying much - she doesn't make the material her own. Knight hadĪ rougher voice than any other female Motown singer of the period, but "Yes, I'm Ready" (revived in 1980 by Teri DeSario and K.C.). Then there's a cover of Barbara Mason's 1965 hit Robinson (the contrived "My Bed Of Thorns") and Ashford & Simpson (the routine love song I've Lost You." Other contributors include Smokey Of this album he also came up with the funky "Ain't No Sun Since You'veīeen Gone" (with Sylvia Moy and Cornelius Grant) and the ballad "Since Written by Norman Whitfield, who produced most Version of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," are here.
The Pips' first Motown hit (title track) and their biggest, a frenzied I have half of these tracks on a cut-rate vinyl issue called Every Beat Of My Heart together with other single sides like "Come See About Me" (not the Holland/Dozier/Holland number) and "Really Didn't Mean It." It's not easy to hear anything indicative of the group's future success in these ordinary, two-minute rock and roll ballads, mainly because Knight's young voice is lacking the power and authority it would come to possess.įollowing that LP, the Pips recorded for Robinson for a couple of years without making much noise before finding their way to Motown. Released on Bobby Robinson's Fury records, the first Gladys Knight and the Pips LP contains their first national hit (#1 R&B), "Every Beat Of My Heart" and the title track, also a significant hit. Songwriting is the hardest thing to come by in this industry. Really needs strong songwriting to succeed. Gladys is in the Aretha Franklin mold (R&Bīelter/sensitive interpreter) but not nearly as good, so the group I'm not too sure what the other Pips ever contributed, and Recording and occasional solo outings, mostly without much commercial Past thirty years it's been up and down, with frequent breaks from Headed off to Buddah, where they had phenomenal initial success. By the early 70s, though, they had tired of the Gordy regime and Process) before coming to Motown, where they promptly scored several (changing their name to "Gladys Knight & The Pips" in the Group had settled on the four members that stayed together for the When they scored their first big hit, "Every Beat Of My Heart," the Brenda and Elenor left soon after, and by 1961 Relatives, William and Elenor Guest, formed the Pips in 1952 when Gladys
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