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Atlanta family-group Gladys Knight & the Pips had performed together for 14 years before signing with Motown in 1966. Earlier recordings for Huntom (the master recordings were later sold to Vee-Jay), Fury, and Maxx had generated five chart hits, including the Top Ten R&B smashes "Every Beat of My Heart" and "Letter Full of Tears," but it was on the Motown subsidiary Soul that Gladys Knight and company hit their stride. This compilation more than adequately covers this period of the Pips' career. Working primarily with producer Norman Whitfield from 1967 through 1969, the group created such Motor City classics as "Everybody Needs Love," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "The End of Our Road," and "Friendship Train." From 1970 through 1973 the Pips worked with a variety of Motown producers, concentrating on ballads. Although they were perhaps a little less consistent, there was no shortage of hits, the most notable being 1970's "If I Were Your Woman" and 1973's "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)." The updated double-CD version of Anthology, featuring digitally remastered sound, replaces about a dozen songs with different ones, though this 40-track collection still contains all of the essential hits and adds lengthy liner notes. Be aware that the three early-'60s hits that lead off the volume (on both versions of Anthology) are Motown re-recordings, not the originals.
© Rob Bowman /TiVo
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Johnny Otis, ComposerLyricist - Wade Marcus, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer
℗ 1970 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Don Covay, ComposerLyricist - Wade Marcus, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer
℗ 1970 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Van McCoy, ComposerLyricist - Wade Marcus, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer - Allen Van McCoy, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1970 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer - HARVEY FUQUA, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Kay Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Helen L. Lewis-Mastor, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Rodger Penzabene, ComposerLyricist - Cornelis Grant, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Rodger Penzabene, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gladys Knight, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., ComposerLyricist - Gwen Gordy Fuqua, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Bristol, Producer - HARVEY FUQUA, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Carlo Tyran, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Rodger Penzabene, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
NICKOLAS ASHFORD, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Valerie Simpson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - HARVEY FUQUA, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - William Franklin Guest, ComposerLyricist - Merald Woodrow Knight Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
LINCOLN CHASE, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Cornelius Grant, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerry Long, Conductor - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
ED COBB, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - EDWIN STARR, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Scott Regen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1995 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pamela Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - Gloria Jones, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Taylor, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Ivy Joe Hunter, Producer
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin Tarplin, ComposerLyricist - Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist
℗ 1970 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Pamela Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - Clarence McMurray, ComposerLyricist - Gloria Jones, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer
℗ 1970 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - William Franklin Guest, ComposerLyricist - Merald Woodrow Knight Jr., ComposerLyricist - Catherine Schaffner, ComposerLyricist - Merald Knight Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Wade Marcus, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - James Dean, ComposerLyricist - Joe Hinton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Doris McNeil, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Orlando Murden, ComposerLyricist - Ron Miller, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer - David Van dePitte, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Dave Mason, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Clarence McMurray, ComposerLyricist - Robert White, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pamela Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - H.B. BARNUM, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kris Kristofferson, ComposerLyricist - William Guest, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Edward Patten, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - H.B. BARNUM, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Bristol, Producer - Gladys Knight, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Merald Knight, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Michael Omartian, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - James D. Weatherly, ComposerLyricist - Artie Butler, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Joe Porter, Producer
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
H.B. BARNUM, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Merald Woodrow Knight Jr., ComposerLyricist - Merald Knight Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1973 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - H.B. BARNUM, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Michael Knight, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Knight, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1973 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bud Reneau, ComposerLyricist - Artie Butler, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Joe Porter, Producer
℗ 1973 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pamela Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - H.B. BARNUM, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Clay McMurray, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Martin Coleman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1973 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - James Weatherly, ComposerLyricist - Jimmie Haskell, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gladys Knight & The Pips, MainArtist - Joe Porter, Producer
℗ 1974 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Atlanta family-group Gladys Knight & the Pips had performed together for 14 years before signing with Motown in 1966. Earlier recordings for Huntom (the master recordings were later sold to Vee-Jay), Fury, and Maxx had generated five chart hits, including the Top Ten R&B smashes "Every Beat of My Heart" and "Letter Full of Tears," but it was on the Motown subsidiary Soul that Gladys Knight and company hit their stride. This compilation more than adequately covers this period of the Pips' career. Working primarily with producer Norman Whitfield from 1967 through 1969, the group created such Motor City classics as "Everybody Needs Love," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "The End of Our Road," and "Friendship Train." From 1970 through 1973 the Pips worked with a variety of Motown producers, concentrating on ballads. Although they were perhaps a little less consistent, there was no shortage of hits, the most notable being 1970's "If I Were Your Woman" and 1973's "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)." The updated double-CD version of Anthology, featuring digitally remastered sound, replaces about a dozen songs with different ones, though this 40-track collection still contains all of the essential hits and adds lengthy liner notes. Be aware that the three early-'60s hits that lead off the volume (on both versions of Anthology) are Motown re-recordings, not the originals.
© Rob Bowman /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 40 track(s)
- Total length: 02:09:31
- Main artists: Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UNI - MOTOWN
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 1995 UMG Recordings Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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