Gladys Knight & Pips - Ultimate Collection
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Artist: Gladys Knight & PipsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1997-10-07
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- The End of Our Road
- Everybody Needs Love
- Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me
- It Should Have Been Me
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Every Little Bit Hurts
- Didn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime)
- Just Walk in My Shoes
- The Nitty Gritty
- Friendship Train
- You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You?)
- If I Were Your Woman
- I Don't Want to Do Wrong
- Here I Am Again
- Make Me the Woman That You Go Home To
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
- Daddy Could Swear, I Declare
- All I Need Is Time
- Between Her Goodbye and My Hello
- It's Time to Go Now
Free Music Notes for Ultimate Collection
Free Music Review: Motown's "The Ultimate Collection" Series Deliver The Goods
Hit: 5 Stars
A search in Music under the heading Ultimate Collection will garner you thousands of hits, and even searching in Album Title will result in quite a few, ranging from Benny Hill and George Formby to 10cc and The Who, and just about everyone in between. Even Motown uses Ultimate Collection on a number of their CDs, but the best of the lot where they are concerned is this series, each with 25 tracks and similar cover art by David Irvin, and involving Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Marvelettes, Martha (Reeves) & The Vandellas, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Mary Wells.
This one covers one of the classiest ladies to emerge in the 1960s and her back-up group which, when first formed in the late 1950's, coonsisted of brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, sister Brenda, and cousins Eleanor and William Guest, named after manager and yet another cousin, James "Pip" Woods. In 1959, Brenda and Eleanor were replaced by cousins Edward Patten and Langston George. They began their long string of R&B hits in 1961 when their initial version of Every Beat Of My Heart was recorded for the tiny Huntom label. After they moved to the Fury label they re-recorded that tune which, billed to Gladys Knight & The Pips, was soon in competition with their original cut which had, in the meantime, been sold to Vee-Jay. Their simultaneous release, billed to The Pips, won out, rising to # 1 R&B and # 5 Billboard Pop Hot 100, whereas the Fury cut stalled at # 15 R&B/# 45 Hot 100. Both had the same B-side, Room In Your Heart.
From that point to 1988 they would add 57 more R&B hits, over 40 of which crossed over to the Pop Hot 100 and 16 to the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts. for seven different labels (Huntom/Vee-Jay, Fury, Maxx, Soul, Buddah, Columbia, and Arista). In 1962, after their third hit, Letter Full Of Tears (# 3 R&B/# 19 Hot 100 on Fury 1054 in December 1961/January 1962), Langston left and from that point on they became a quartet.
Here, of course, the selections concentrate on their output for Motown's subsidiary label Soul and includes, along with the hit singles covered, the hard-to-find It's Time To Go Now, the B-side to their biggest Hot 100 hit [# 2 and # 1 R&B for 6 weeks] I Heard It Through The Grapevine, in late 1967. Also included are the album cuts Every Little Bit Hurts, Just Walk In My Shoes, and Here I Am Again.
The sound quality is excellent and you get several pages of informative liner notes, including a complete discography of the contents and some nice shots of the group. Most definitely a compilation worth having.
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