Gladys Knight & the Pips discography
Here is the discography of American R&B/ soul vocal group Gladys Knight& the Pips.
Midnight Train to Georgia
" Midnight Train to Georgia" is a 1973 number- one hit single by Gladys Knight& the Pips, their second release after departing Motown Records for Buddah Records.
Written by Jim Weatherly, and included on the Pips' 1973 LP" Imagination Midnight Train to Georgia" won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R &B Vocal Performance
By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and has become Knight's signature song.
Merald "Bubba" Knight
Merald Woodlow" Bubba" Knight, Jr.( born September 4, 1942 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American R&B/ soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight& the Pips.
The older brother of lead singer Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight served as the unofficial leader of the group, and was instrumental in handling the Pips' business matters.
Gladys Knight& The Pips evolved out of The Pips.
The original Pips formed in Atlanta in 1952, with Gladys, Bubba, sister Brenda, plus cousins Elenor and William Guest singing supper club material during the week, and gospel music on Sundays.
Bubba has lived in the Detroit area since the mid 1960s.
He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
All Our Love
All Our Love is a 1987 album by soul quartet Gladys Knight& The Pips.
It was the group's last ever studio album before The Pips retired and Knight embarked on a solo career.
Edward Patten
Edward Roy" Eddie" Patten( August 27, 1939 February 25, 2005) was an Atlanta, Georgia- born R&B/ soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight& the Pips.
He was a cousin of Gladys Knight.
Along with the group, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Edward was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Thomas S. Patten and Wilhelmina( née Maxwell).
His father was a local musician, singer and a child prodigy on the piano.
Edward grew up singing in the church and with local" doo wop" groups in Atlanta.
While still a teenager, he married his first wife Katherine( née Smith) in Atlanta at the home of her parents.
He had two children from this marriage Stephanie A. and Steven A. Patten.
It was in Atlanta that he was invited by William Guest to join the Pips after two members left the group to get married.
Edward later traveled first to New York after the success of the single" Every Beat of My Heart" and later he and the group now Gladys Knight and the Pips, moved to Detroit, Michigan to join Motown Records.
By this time the strain of the entertainment world had taken its toll on his marriage and he and Katherine divorced and he married Renee( née Brown).
He and Renee had three children- Edward II, Elliott and Renee Patten.
Even though Gladys Knight& the Pips officially disbanded in 1989, Patten remained very close to his bandmates and his lifelong friends throughout the rest of his life.
Patten had diabetes, hypertension, and was later incapacitated by a stroke.
He died of a stroke at St. Mary's Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Michigan, where he resided.
He was 65 years old.
He is interred at Detroit's historic Woodlawn Cemetery at Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue.
He is survived by his wife Renee, six children- Stephanie, Steven, Sonya, Edward II, Elliott and Renee Patten and nine grandchildren.
Special Occasion (The Miracles album)
Special Occasion is an album by Smokey Robinson& The Miracles released in 1968.
It contains three Top 40 hits:" If You Can WantYester Love", and" Special Occasion".
Also included are versions of the Motown hits" I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and" Everybody Needs Love"( both made popular by Gladys Knight& The Pips) and The Beatles'" Yesterday".
The album's biggest hit was the uptempo" If You Can Want", which just missed the" Billboard" Pop Top 10( peaking at# 11), and was performed by the group on their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1968.
The Miracles were actually the first group to record" I Heard It Through the Grapevine", before the later hit versions by Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight& the Pips were done, although the master used on this album is a re-recorded version prepared following the release of the Pips' version.
This album also includes the popular Miracles regional hit" B" sides, “" Much Better Off ”"( which inspired a cover version by late rapper J Dilla), and “ Give Her UpGive Her Up ” first appeared on Martha& The Vandellas ‘ 1963 album" Come And Get These Memories" as “ Give Him Up ”
Evil (band)
Evil was a garage rock band from Miami, Florida, active between late 1965 and early 1967.
They were known for a hard – driving, sometimes, thrashing 60s punk sound that combined elements of blues, rockabilly, and British invasion influences( particularly the tougher sounding London- based outfits of the time, such as The Yardbirds, The Who, The Pretty Things, and The Small Faces).
They recorded several songs, amongst which “ Always Runnin' Around ” and “ Whatcha Gonna Do ” were released as a single on Living Legend Records in 1966.
The band would eventually be signed to Capitol Records, but broke up shortly thereafter.
In more recent years they have become particularly noted for several previously unreleased songs recorded in 1966, which have been released in recent years on various independent labels from acetates, such as" From a Curbstone, Short Life," and especially" I'm Movin' On," which is now regarded as a garage classic.
The band was formed in 1965 by Stan Kinchen, who would play lead guitar on most of their recordings.
one night that year, after dance, Al Banyai, the band's rhythm guitarist asked John Doyle to join as lead singer.
Doyle would come up with the name of the band:" We were looking for something dark and scary.
We were all into Edgar Allan Poe, almost named the band that, then Raven, then just EVIL!
The story is that we named it after the blues tune ..."
Later in 1965, Larry O' Connell, on bass, and Doug Romanella, on drums would be added to the lineup.
In March 1966, after winning WFUN's annual Dade County Youth Fair Battle Of The Bands, the band were awarded a chance to make several recordings in a one- day marathon session at the Dukoff recording studio in Miami, where they cut several demos and acetates.
Amongst the self- penned songs recorded there were" I'm Movin' On, From a Curbstone, Short Life," and Always Runnin' Around.
Later that year Al Banyai, Larry O'Connell, and Doug Romanella departed and were replaced by John Dalton( rhythm guitar), Mike Hughes( bass), and Jeff Allen( drums).
Their new drummer, Jeff
Allen, joined after the breakup of his former group, another Miami band, The Montells.
He would occasionally travel to England, where he was able to go to clubs and witness, firsthand, many of the latest British bands playing live and would then bring his observations back home to share with fellow band members.
Near the end of 1966, they would record again in Miami, this time at Criteria Studios, with their version of the Small Faces'" Whacha Gonna Do." “ Always Runnin' Around ” and “ Whatcha Gonna Do ” were released as a single on Living Legend Records in late 1966.
By the end of the year they signed to Capitol Records, who re-released the same single on their own label, with the band's name mistakenly printed as" The Evil."
However, shortly afterward, in 1967, the band broke up.
In 2010, Jeff Allen, second drummer for Evil( and earlier with the Montells) died.
On February 14, 2014, former lead singer, John Doyle, passed.
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight& the Pips were an R&B/ soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia that remained active on the music charts and performing circuit for three decades.
Starting out as simply
The Pips in 1952, derived from a cousin's nickname, the founding members were Gladys Knight, brother Merald" Bubba" Knight, sister Brenda Knight and cousins Eleanor and William Guest.
After a couple of years performing in talent shows, the group signed with Brunswick Records in 1957, recording a couple of singles that failed to chart.
Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest were eventually replaced by another cousin, Edward Patten and a non-relative, Langston George in 1959.
This lineup produced the group's first hit single," Every Beat of My Heart".
After the single was released on three different labels, they changed their name to" Gladys Knight& the Pips" in 1961.
Langston George left the same year and Gladys Knight left in 1962 to start a family with musician Jimmy Newman.
Knight rejoined in 1964 and this lineup continued until the group's disbandment in 1989.
The group reached commercial success after signing with Motown Records in 1966.
After a year and a half, the group recorded the first hit single version of" I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in 1967, which led to several hit singles for Motown's Soul Records label, including" Nitty Gritty Friendship Train If I Were Your Woman" and" Neither One of Us( Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)", before leaving the label for Buddah Records in 1973, where they recorded the hits" Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me I've Got to Use My Imagination" and their number- one hit single," Midnight Train to Georgia".
Contractual difficulties with their labels forced the group to record side projects until 1980 when they signed with Columbia Records.
Later hits included" Save the Overtime( For Me)" and the Grammy- winning single" Love Overboard".
In 1989, the group disbanded with the Pips retiring and Knight embarking on a successful solo career.
Gladys Knight& the Pips are multiple Grammy and American Music Award winners and are inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1996 and 2001 respectively.
Everybody Needs Love (album)
Everybody Needs
Love is the third album by Gladys Knight& the Pips and their first album for Motown Records' Soul imprint.
The LP, chiefly produced by Norman Whitfield, features the singles" Just Walk in My Shoes"( the 1966 group's Motown debut)," Take Me in Your Arms and Love MeEverybody Needs Love" and" I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
" Everybody Needs Love", which peaked at number 39 on the" Billboard" Hot 100, was Knight& the Pips first major Motown hit, but" Grapevine", which peaked at number 2, was a major success for the group and Motown.
Selling over 2.5 million copies," I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became Motown's best- selling single to that point.
Its success would be overshadowed by Marvin Gaye's version of the song, which would be issued on Motown's Tamla label a year after Knight& the Pips' recording.
William Guest (singer)
William Franklin Guest( July 2, 1941 – December 24, 2015) was an American R&B/ soul singer best known as a member of Gladys Knight& the Pips.

Question: Which band was formed earlier, Evil (Band) or Gladys Knight & The Pips?
Answer: Gladys Knight & The Pips