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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Every Beat of My Heart
2. Letter Full of Tears
3. Giving Up
4. Everybody Needs Love
5. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
6. End of Our Road, The
7. It Should Have Been Me
8. Nitty Gritty, The
9. Friendship Train
10. You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)
11. If I Were Your Woman
12. I Don't Want to Do Wrong
13. Make Me the Woman You Come Home To
14. Help Me Make It Through the Night
15. Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
16. Daddy Could Swear I Declare
17. Where Peaceful Waters Flow
18. Midnight Train to Georgia
19. I've Got to Use My Imagination
20. Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
21. I Feel a Song (In My Heart)
22. Love Finds Its Own Way
DISC 2:
1. On and On
2. The Way We Were / Try To Remember
3. Money
4. Part Time Love
5. Make Yours a Happy Home
6. So Sad the Song
7. Baby Don't Change Your Mind
8. Landlord
9. Save the Overture (For Me)
10. You're Number One (In My Book)
11. Hero (A.K.A. Wind Beneath My Wings)
12. Send It to Me - (from "Miami Vice II")
13. Love Overboard - (single edit)
14. Lovin' on Next to Nothin'
15. Licence to Kill - (from "Licence To Kill", with Gladys Knight)
16. Men - (with Gladys Knight)
17. Superwoman - (with Gladys Knight, featuring Dionne Warwick/Patti LaBelle)
Album Notes
The consistently excellent two-disc GOLD series does it again with this superbly selected and compiled Gladys Knight and the Pips collection. The 39 tracks here stretch back to the group's early-'60s material, with cuts like "Every Beat of My Heart" and "Giving Up" hinting at both the Motown and doo-wop traditions. By the 1970s, the group had settled into a more smoothly soulful sound, complete with strings and horn arrangements.
That sound kicked off the string of hits the group is best known for, among them "Midnight Train to Georgia," "I've Got To Use My Imagination," and "Neither One of Us (Want to Be the First to Say Goodbye)." Those tracks are included here, of course, along with their '80s dance-oriented chart hits--"Save the Overtime (For Me);" "Love Overboard"--and some of Knight's solo releases from the late '80s and early '90s. The set offers a wonderful overview of the group's long career, with Knight's rich, expressive voice and the Pips' tight harmonies shining brightly throughout.
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