
Gladys Knight
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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. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Written by Richie Unterberger