By Robb_K (66.81.197.192) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 09:04 pm:

Everybody Needs Love
Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me
I Know Better
Just Walk In My Shoes
Operator

By LadyMystique (216.37.228.72) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 09:36 pm:

1. Feelin Alright
2. Neither One of Us
3. Everybody Needs Love
4. Friendship Train
5. If I Were Your Woman

By Dinelle (67.35.238.230) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:33 pm:

1. I've Got To Use My Imagination
2. Neither One of Us
3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
4. A Midnight Train To Georgia
5. If I Were Your Woman

By Stranger56 (24.186.184.6) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:38 pm:

Help Me Make It Through The Night
Neither One Of Us
You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
If I Were Your Woman
Midnight Train

By LadyMystique (216.37.228.72) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:39 pm:

BTW, anyone know if there are any more dates with her and Smokey?

By Stranger56 (24.186.184.6) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:50 pm:

Lady, we just had them for 2 nights at Westbury last week, and when he starts Tracks of my Tears, and Gladys comes out and duets with him (with Marv Tarplin on guitar), it is just one of those moments that you wish could last forever.

Magic!

Jim

By LadyMystique (216.37.228.72) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:51 pm:

Oh, I wish I could have seen that!

By t (205.188.117.14) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:54 pm:

Gladys Top 5

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine (mono single version - best mix)
2. Friendship Train (stereo lp version)
3. You Need Love Like I Do, Don't You (mono 45 version)
4. Stop, And Get A Hold Of Yourself
5. The Nitty Gritty

By SoniT (69.140.132.102) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:56 pm:

If I Were Your Woman
Neither One of Us
Friendship Train
I Don't Wanna Do Wrong
On and On

By Stranger56 (24.186.184.6) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:57 pm:

Killer, Lady.....just Killer!!

Jim

By kevin quinn (141.151.92.165) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:03 pm:

Gladys top 5:

-Make Yours A Happy Home
-You're #1 In My Book
-Daddy Could Swear I Declare
-When You're Far Away
-It Should've Been Me

By Soul Sister (65.43.144.46) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:06 pm:

1. I Don't Want To Do Wrong
2. Neither One Of Us
3. Here Iam Again
4. If I Were Your Woman
5. Your The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Gladys is one of my favorite ALL-TIME singers!
S.S.

By Ron Murphy (68.42.90.140) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 01:47 am:

1. Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me
2. Just Walk In My Shoes
3. Neither One Of Us
4 Everybody Needs Love
5. If I Were Your Woman

By Edgar (200.46.13.231) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 02:00 am:

1. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
2. The Boy from Crosstown
3. Didn't You Know (You'd Have To Cry Sometime)
4. Friendship Train
5. Neither One of Us (Wants To Be the First To Say Goodbye.)

and...
1. Runnin' Out
2. Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone (2nd version)
3. I Wish It Would Rain
4. I Don't Want To Do Wrong
5. Midnight Train To Georgia

By Charise (198.81.26.103) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 03:10 am:

Okay, now you guys know that you can't do a top 5 for Gladys, it has to be at least 10!!!! I would agree with all of the one's mentioned, does anybody remember This Is Love- from the "Neither One Of Us " album. I don't think it was a single, but I remember that I loved that song as a child! (smile)

By Ju (152.163.253.70) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 03:15 am:

If I Were Your Woman
Giving Up
have to think about the rest

By Reese (12.15.168.69) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 01:06 pm:

Top 5 Motown Hits

1) Neither One Of Us
2) Didn't You Know (You'd Have To Cry Sometime)
3) If I Were Your Woman
4) I Don't Want To Do Wrong
5) Make Me The Woman You Go Home To

Top 5 Motown Album Tracks:

1) My Bed Of Thorns
2) Your Love's Been Good For Me
3) No One Could Love You More
4) Oh! What A Love I Have Found
5) I Hate Myself For Loving You

By Handsome (170.118.158.14) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 01:15 pm:

Hey!

1) You Need love Like I Do (Don't You)
2) Everybody Needs Love
3) The End of Our Road
4) The Nitty Gritty
5) Yes, I'm Ready

Honorable Mentions:

If I Was Your Woman
Neither One of Us (Wants To Be The First to Say Goodbye)
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
I Don't Wanna Do Wrong
I Know Better
Theme From The Valley of the Dolls

Handsome

By Largo (205.142.0.75) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 01:48 pm:

Gladys is my favorite singer, so I had to chime in on this thread:

1. Friendship Train ("It don't matter what you look, look, look like people!")
2. If I Were Your Woman ("I'd never, NO, NO, stop lovin' you!")
3. Help Me Make It Through The Night ("Come on and leeeead me through the ni-ight, oooo-hooooo")
4. On & On ("I know you feel like I feel...that's why we got a love that's ree-eal")
5. Neither One Of Us ("Go on together...livin' a li-iiiiiieeee!")

OK, those were my favorites of the hits, but I'm also crazy about:

Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone (1st version--which the group performed live frequently it seems. Shoulda been a single if you ask me.)

Who Is She (What Is She To You)--funky!

Oh! What A Love I Have Found

And This Is Love--I remember it, Charise. "Too much bubbly pink champagne/NOTHIN' left but hurt and pain!"

All I Need Is Time

Heaven Sent

Still Such A Thing

Keep An Eye

Add It Up

so many more...

By Tony Russi (68.210.10.250) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 02:11 pm:

1)I Don't Wanna Do Wrong 2)Grapevine 3)Make Me The Woman You Come Home To 4)Didn't You Know You'd Have to Cry Sometime 5)The Nitty Gritty(the funkiest version of this song)

By Don (68.75.61.76) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 02:46 pm:

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. If I We're Your Woman
3. Make Me The Woman You Come Home To
4. I Don't Wanna Do Wrong
5. Midnight Train To Georgia

By Handsome (170.118.158.14) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 02:50 pm:

Largo, How does Gladys' version of Keep An Eye compare to DRATS (from the Love Child Album)?

I never heard it and was always curious.

Handsome

By Livonia Ken (136.2.1.101) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 02:55 pm:

I don't think I could stop at five, but my favorite b-side/album track is "Can't Give it up No More". That song is way underrated.

Regards,
Ken

By Mike Sku (64.9.11.62) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 03:13 pm:

I'm surprised that no one had added "Is There a Place (In His Heart for Me)", which I believe was a flip side to "If I Were Your Woman". I like the Supremes' version of this song, too (on the New Ways LP).

By DyvaNaye (209.212.74.216) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 03:23 pm:

This aint right...too many to name darn it!

Do You Love Me Just a Little Honey?
Make Her TheWoman You Go Home To
Neither One of Us
On and On
The Way We Were

bonus 5,forget ya'll....lol..

Daddy Could Swear, I Declare

Midnight Train - the truth about this is that I love the Pips more in this song!

Friendship Train

Every Body Needs Love

Seconds

By Largo (205.142.0.75) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 04:44 pm:

Handsome,

I vaguely recall hearing a rendition of Keep An Eye by Diana Ross. For some reason I thought it was a Ross solo version. Like I say I only recall it vaguely...it was mid-tempo, bordering on slow, I believe.

I much prefer the GK&P version. It's up-tempo with Gladys wailin' (of course). I think Ashford & Simpson produced it, but for a long time I thought it was a Whitfield track. It fit quite well with some Whitfield stompers on the Nitty Gritty lp.

By Reese (12.15.168.69) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 05:12 pm:

Handsome and Largo:

Diana actually recorded KEEP AN EYE twice. Once with the Supremes on the LOVE CHILD album and once as Largo said, on her first solo album. The performances are almost identical, to the point that I wonder why A&S wasted time and money doing it again. I prefer the version with the Supremes.

As for the song itself, I think both the Supremes and the Pips did a great job on it. Plus A&S really deserve credit for making versions that fit each act like a glove. As Largo said, the Pips' version is similar to the uptempo stompers that Norman Whitfield was cutting on them. The Supremes' version is taken much slower and I find it to be rather dramatic.

By Largo (205.142.0.75) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 05:22 pm:

Reese,
Thanks for that clarification!

By Cinderella (206.54.145.254) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 05:31 pm:

1. Seconds
2. I Feel a Song in My Heart
3. Make Me the Woman You Come Home To.
4. To Be Invisible
5. Givin' Up

It's not fair to make up stop at five!

By Greg C. (166.84.225.38) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 05:35 pm:

I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Boy From Crosstown (Gladys wails on this one!)
Eveybody Needs Love
Neither One Of Us Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye
Since I Lost You

By Galactus (207.144.253.114) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 06:57 pm:

1. You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
2. Midnight Train to Georgia
3. Neither One of Us
4. Save the Overtime
5. I Heard It Through the Grapevine

By Michael/Cleoharvey (205.184.184.152) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 01:00 am:

1. You're The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me
2. Make Me the Woman You Come Home To
3. I Heard it Through the Grapevine
4. Friendship Train
5. Midnight Train to Georgia

Honorable mention: Tracks of My Tears, Landlord, Still Such A Thing, Daddy Could Swear I Declare, You Need Love Like I Do Don't You

By Edgar (200.46.13.148) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 01:54 am:

Handsome: another opinion on "Keep An Eye". I prefer The Supremes' version to The Pips', for the reason Reese gave, that it's a very dramatic song and the slow rhythm seems more appropiate to the story being told. Knowing how Gladys Knight handled drama in songs like "The Boy from Crosstown" and "It Should Have Been Me", it could have been a masterpiece if done in The Supremes' tempo. Gladys is so good that even fast songs like "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "End of Our Road", or with a funky beat like "Who Is She", do not lose their dramatic impact, but in this case, after listening to The Supremes' version first, I prefer that tempo. Ashford and Simpson experimented a lot with the song, because the Diana Ross version is slightly faster than The Supremes' (actually, I think it's Diana Ross & The Andantes.)

By TRI-PHI (68.5.143.49) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 04:21 am:

EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE
END OF OUR ROAD
NEITHER ONE OF US
GRAPEVINE
NITTY GRITTY

By STONEWALL (68.237.125.253) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:21 am:

Motown: GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS

1) "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"

2) "Friendship Train"

3) "The Nitty Gritty"

4) "U Need Love Like I Do (Don't U")"

5) "Got Myself A Good Man"

bonus: "Everybody Needs Love"


NOTE: Gladys Knight {w/o The Pips} is confirmed to perform at "Motown 45".

By johneflat (152.163.253.70) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:38 am:

Every Beat of my Heart
Givin' Up
Love Overboard
Where Peaceful Waters Flow
Grapevine (I did like theirs better than Marvin's)

By Conrad Bool (195.92.198.71) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 12:23 pm:

Did she do her best work on Motown, Buddah,or CBS??.....F***ed if I knoW,I love it all.
1. Taste of Bitter Love - CBS
2. I Feel A Song In My Heart - Buddah
3. He's My Kind of Fellow - Motown
4.Didnt You Know (Youd Have To Cry Sometime)- Motown
5. Part Time Love - Buddah

By Don (68.75.58.195) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 02:05 pm:

I remember all of these great songs. And to everyone that posted you all's selections kinda brought back some memories, and I didn't wanna post the same songs and posted some of my oown selections, that some folk in this thread may had forgotten about sorta? GK&P'S we're an all rounded
vocalgroup who could sing up/mid/slow tempo material and torch songs as well. It seemed when they we're with Soul/Motown weren't given the best material. However, whatever song that we're placed in front of them they turned each and every song into a gem. Which is saying a lot.

By soultwine (195.93.34.12) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:25 pm:

Well...hardly anyone has mentioned their Maxx label tracks with the great Van McCoy contributing most of the fantastic material. For me their BEST work..
And they were the best singers i've ever experienced live until the Peabo Bryson concert at Hammersmith, London some years later.Talk about put you under a spell!.
but there are other great GK&TP obscurities not mentioned like.. "Friendly persuasion".
Keep digging.
Phil Reeves