Playlist: The Very Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips

by Gladys Knight, Gladys Knight & the Pips

Overview

Playlist: The Very Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips covers the group's post-Motown Buddah output, as well as some of their Columbia releases, released from 1973 through 1983. While it's not an ideal overview -- it lacks some of the significant singles and severely underestimates the excellent, Ashford & Simpson-driven About Love (1980) -- it shines a necessary light on a significant portion of a bountiful catalog. This contains five number one R&B singles: "Midnight Train to Georgia," "I've Got to Use My Imagination," "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)," and "Save the Overtime (For Me)." The last of the lot, released in 1983, showed that Knight and company -- despite being veterans commonly tied to a bygone era -- were able to adapt to modern sounds (just as the Whispers, supported by Leon Sylvers III, were thriving around the same time). ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	03/17/2009
Label:	Sony Bmg / Sony Music
UPC:	0888751655027

Tracks

1. Way I Lose
2. Yours a Happy Home
3. Burn Down the Bridge
4. Heard It Through the Grapevine
5. Such a Thing
6. One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
7. Train to Georgia
8. Got to Use My Imagination
9. Thing That Ever Happened to Me
10. And On
11. Feel a Song In My Heart
12. Finds Its Own Way
13. Time Love
14. The Overtime (For Me)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gladys Knight   Primary Artist
Gladys Knight & the Pips   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jim Weatherly   Composer