Ultimate Collection: Gladys Knight & The Pips
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 10 August 1998 Record Label: Universal / Island Rating:   Sales Rank: 34413 | | Look for similar items by category:
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| | Customer Reviews: So much more than the Midnight Train to Georgia (15 March 2009)What a remarkable collection of tracks from the early days of a belter of a performer. The only reason I'm holding back from giving it 5 stars is that there are times when Gladys is not holding back and is wailing a bit too much for my taste. Sometimes less is more, but she puts in great versions of familiar tunes like Every Little Bit Hurts, If I Were Your Woman, a scorching You Need Love Like I Do and a husky version of Help Me Make Through the Night. There are so many styles of tunes and vocalising going on you'd swear it's a different singer. For instance, on Take Me In Your Arms (and Love Me) she sounds just like Dionne Warwick doing a forgotten Bacharach track. And I can't think why I've never heard some of these brilliant tracks before, especially The End of Our Road and I Wish It Would Rain. WTPPA (worth the purchase price alone). The first successful recordings (27 March 2003)Gladys Knight and the Pips made some records before they signed to Motown, but those records were not successful, so these are the earliest important recordings. I heard it through the grapevine was their first major hit, going to number two in the American pop chart (and topping the R+B chart) and also giving them a minor British hit. Gladys recorded the song at around the same time as Marvin Gaye, but Motown originally selected the version by Gladys and the Pips for single release. Marvin’s version was released as a single a year later and topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The two versions are very different despite both being produced by Norman Whitfield. He obviously loved the song as he also produced versions by the Isley brothers and the Miracles. There are many other classic songs here, including Take me in your arms and love me, It should have been me (revived by Yvonne Fair in the seventies), Every little bit hurts, If I were your woman, Help me make it through the night and Neither one of us. Gladys Knight is best remembered for the recordings she made after she left Motown for Buddah, including Midnight train to Georgia, but her Motown music is well worth a listen. |
