
Artist
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Gladys Knight & The Pips is a r&b artist from Atlanta, Georgia, USA formed in 1953. 53 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
R&B · Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Best r&b albums
- 53
- Releases
- 1961–2022
- Active years
- 1953
- Formed

Artist
Gladys Knight & The Pips is a r&b artist from Atlanta, Georgia, USA formed in 1953. 53 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
R&B · Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Best r&b albums

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Imagination
1973

Neither One of Us
1973

I Feel a Song
1974

Visions
1983

The One and Only
1978

If I Were Your Woman
1971

Everybody Needs Love
1967

2nd Anniversary
1975

Nitty Gritty
1969

Standing Ovation
1972

Knight Time
1974

Feelin' Bluesy
2019

Love Songs
2018

The Essential Gladys Knight & The Pips
2015

Life (Expanded Edition)
2014

In The Beginning (Expanded Edition)
2014

The Classic Christmas Album
2013

The Way We Were: The Best Of Gladys Knight & The Pips
2009

The Best of Gladys Knight & The Pips: Love Finds Its Own Way
2007

Claudine (Original Soundtrack)
2007
Knight Time / A Little Knight Music
2006
Silk N' Soul / The Nitty Gritty
2006
If I Were Your Woman / Standing Ovation
2006
Everybody Needs Love / Feelin' Bluesy
2006
Neither One of Us / All I Need Is Time
2006

The Best Of Gladys Knight & The Pips
2005

Superhits
2004

Collections
2003

It's Christmas Time Again
2002

The Greatest Hits
1998

Ultimate Collection: Gladys Knight & The Pips
1998

Live At The Roxy
1998
The Christmas Album
1997

Blue Lights In The Basement
1996

All Our Love
1995

Touch
1981

About Love (Expanded Edition)
1980

Pipe Dreams (Original Soundtrack)
1976

Bless This House (The Christmas Album)
1975

A Little Knight Music
1975

All I Need Is Time
1973
It Hurt Me So Bad
1973

Silk N' Soul
1968
Silk & Soul
1968
Urgent
1965
Letter Full of Tears
1961

Let Us Entertain You (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 5, 1969)
Single · 2022

If I Were Your Woman (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, February 7, 1971)
Single · 2021

The Nitty Gritty/By The Time I Get To Phoenix/Stop And Get A Hold Of Myself (Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 5, 1969)
Single · 2021

The End Of Our Road/The Masquerade Is Over/I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, February 25, 1968)
Single · 2020

I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 29, 1970)
Single · 2020

Motown 7" Singles No. 7
Single · 2009

Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) (Kenny Dope Mix)
Single · 2005
More about Gladys Knight & The Pips
Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967) and "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973). The longest-lived incarnation of the act featured Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with The Pips, who included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers. Gladys Knight was born in 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of seven in 1952, she won Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour television show contest. The following year, she, her brother Bubba, sister Brenda, and their cousins William and Eleanor Guest started a singing group called "The Pips" (named after another cousin, James "Pip" Woods). The Pips began to perform and tour, eventually replacing Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest with cousins Langston George and Edward Patten in 1959.
The Pips scored their first hit in 1961 with "Every Beat of My Heart", a cover of a Hank Ballard & The Midnighters song written by Johnny Otis. The group had recorded the song for a friend in Atlanta, who promptly sold the master to Vee-Jay Records and cut the group out of the record's profits. The Pips recorded a second version of "Every Beat" with Bobby Robinson as the producer, and the song became a #1 R&B and #6 pop hit. Shortly afterwards, Langston George left the group, and the remaining members continued as a quartet, now billed as Gladys Knight & the Pips. Typically, most of the act's recordings featured Knight's contralto on lead vocals and the three male members of the group, usually referred to as "The Pips" by themselves, providing characteristic background vocals. After a second Vee-Jay hit, "Letter Full of Tears", in 1962, Knight quit the group to start a family with husband James Newman, giving birth to James Gaston Newman III in August of that year. Her second child Kenya Maria Newman was born in November the following year. The Pips toured on their own for two years, until Knight returned to the act in 1964 in order to support her two children. The group developed a reputation for exciting and polished live performances that enabled them to work even without the benefit of best-selling records. Choreographer Cholly Atkins designed "fast-stepping" dance routines that became a signature of the Pips' stage presentation.