Essential Collection

Gladys Knight & Pips - Essential Collection

Essential Collection
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Artist: Gladys Knight & Pips
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-09-28
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Every Beat Of My Heart
  2. Letter Full Of Tears
  3. Giving Up
  4. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
  5. If I Were Your Woman
  6. Friendship Train
  7. I Don't Want To Do Wrong
  8. Daddy Could Swear, I Declare
  9. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
  10. Midnight Train To Georgia
  11. I've Got To Use My Imagination
  12. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, The
  13. I Feel A Song (In My Heart)
  14. On And On
  15. The Way We Were / Try To Remember
  16. Save the Overtime (For Me)
  17. Hero (Wind Beneath My Wings)
  18. Love Overboard

Music reviews of Essential Collection

Music Review: A slam dunk! Clearly the best collection available for all but the most avid fans
Rating: 5 Stars

I don't know how I missed this one (it was issued in 1999) but I happened upon this collection for the very first time today at a local bookstore. It is almost the collection I have been waiting for for yaars. "In "Essential Collection" Hip-O Records has assembled the most comprehensive collection to date of of the hit singles of this legendary group.
Not only has Hip-O included the groups first big hit "Every Beat of My Heart" from 1961 but they have also managed to add the extremely hard-to-find "Letter Full of Tears" from later that same year. And as one might expect, nearly all of the groups biggest records from their highly successful stint at Motown are also included. Enjoy once again great tunes like "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (I have always preferred it to the Marvin Gaye version), the 1970 smash "If I Were Your Woman", "Friendship Train" and the haunting "Neither One of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)" from 1973. As another reviewer has duly noted among the tunes that were not included on this disc are "The Nitty Gritty" and "The End of Our Road". There were a lot of raised eyebrows when in 1973 GLadys Knight and the Pips announced they were leaving the comfortable digs of Motown Records and moving on to Buddah Records. It seemed like a bad fit. Buddah had been the home of late 60's bubblegum music. But Gladys apparently knew what she was doing because after their arrival at Buddah the group reeled off 4 consecutive Top Ten hits including "Midnight Train To Georgia", "I've Got To Use My Imagination", "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" and "On and On". It was a brand new sound for the group and the public loved it. Aside from those big hits "Essential Collection" also includes Glady's stunning medley "The Way We Were/Try To Remember". Glady's performance on that number proved just how versatile a singer she really was.
As the 70's progressed the group seemed to run out of gas and disappeared for a few years. They resurfaced at Columbia Records in 1983 and managed some moderate success on the R&B charts with tunes like "Save The Overtime (For Me)" and "Hero".
Both of those tunes are included here as well. Just when it seemed that Gladys Knight and the Pips has vanished from the scene forever they emerged on MCA in 1988 with an unexpected hit "Love Overboard". What a great record! A lot of people agreed because "Love Overboard" won a Grammy award for best R&B tune of the year. My wife and I had the great good fortune to see Gladys Knight and the Pips perform in 1989. At that point they had been performing together for over 3 decades. What a memorable show!
"Essential Collection" is the one and only anthology of Gladys Knight and the Pips" that includes the groups work for 6 different labels. While it would have been nice if this collection included 24 tracks instead of 18 you will not find a better representation of the work of this extremely talented group. It really should be regarded as "essential". Highly recommended!
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Description of Essential Collection

HIP-O RECORDS REISSUE.
While Gladys Knight and the Pips spent large portions of the '60s, '70s, and '80s on the charts, this smart CD is the first attempt to compile high points of their tenures at various labels (Motown subsidiary Buddah, Columbia, MCA). While Knight proved equally at home with smokin' church-bred R&B (the original "I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and uptown pop (an unfortunate medley of "Try to Remember" and "The Way We Were"), she was most effective on plainspoken tales of everyday people. That's the reason "Grapevine," "Midnight Train to Georgia," "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," and "Save the Overtime for Me," recorded over a 15-year span, sound so much of a piece. --Rickey Wright

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