This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
We continue with the completion of letter M and start with N and feature music from: Paul McCartney & Wings, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Aretha Franklin, John Lennon, Steeleye Span, America, Pink Floyd, Tufano & Giammarese, Queen, Michael Jackson, Sweet, Doobie Brothers and many more.
2pm to 6pm ET
This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
We continue with the completion of letter I and J and start the K list and feature music from: David Bowie, Queen, Seals and Crofts, Allman Brothers Band, Argent, Spinners, Baby Washington, Jim Croce, Bruce Springsteen, Electric Light Orchestra, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Chicago and many more.
2pm to 6pm ET
Gladys Knight & the Pips were an American R&B/soul/funk family music group from Atlanta, Georgia, that remained active on the music charts and performing circuit for over 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 Guest 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 eventually left the group and were 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”, “I Don’t Want to Do Wrong” and the Grammy-winning “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)”, before leaving the label for Buddah Records in 1973. At Buddah, they recorded the hits “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me”, “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination”, “I Feel a Song (In My Heart)” and their Grammy-winning and number-one hit single, “Midnight Train to Georgia”. In 1974, they recorded the soundtrack to the successful film Claudine with producer Curtis Mayfield, which included the songs “On and On”, “The Makings of You” and “Make Yours a Happy Home”. Contractual difficulties with their labels forced the group to record side projects from 1977 until 1980 when they signed with Columbia Records. Later hits included “Landlord”, “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.
| 1 | Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me | 1974 |
| 2 | Midnight Train to Georgia | 1973 |
| 3 | The Way We Were / “Try to Remember” | 1975 |
| 4 | Didn’t You Know (You’d Have to Cry Sometime) | 1969 |
| 5 | Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) | 1972 |
| 6 | So Sad the Song | 1976 |
| 7 | Part Time Love | 1975 |
| 8 | I Wish It Would Rain | 1968 |
| 9 | Help Me Make It Through the Night | 1967 |
| 10 | Love Overboard | 1987 |
| 11 | I Feel a Song (In My Heart) | 1974 |
| 12 | Baby, Don’t Change Your Mind | 1977 |
| 13 | I Heard It Through the Grapevine | 1967 |
| 14 | If I Were Your Woman | 1970 |
| 15 | On and On | 1974 |
| 16 | I’ve Got to Use My Imagination | 1973 |
| 17 | Love Finds Its Own Way | 1975 |
| 18 | Guess Who | 1961 |
| 19 | Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me | 1967 |
| 20 | The Nitty Gritty | 1969 |
| 21 | Friendship Train | 1969 |
| 22 | The End of Our Road | 1968 |
| 23 | I Don’t Want to Do Wrong | 1971 |
| 24 | Where Peaceful Waters Flow | 1973 |
| 25 | Everybody Needs Love | 1967 |
| 26 | You Need Love Like I Do (Don’t You) | 1970 |
| 27 | Daddy Could Swear, I Declare | 1973 |
| 28 | It Should Have Been Me | 1968 |
| 29 | Make Me the Woman That You Go Home To | 1971 |
| 30 | Money | 1975 |
I think I’ve got a nice mixed bag of music for you, when you join me later this evening at 7PM Eastern Time for “Great Soul Performances 2: The 80s.” On the playlist I’ve got: Barry White, the Bar-Kays, Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder, Guns & Roses, Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, Grandmaster Flash, Manhattan Transfer, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Bob Marley, Talking Heads and a whole lot more. Remember, that after the original live broadcast this evening, starting tomorrow, you can listen to the show again at your heart’s content, anytime day or night, until next Wednesday evening’s new show, by going to: http://radiomaxmusic.com/gsp2listen.html.
So join me later at 7PM ET, 6PM CT, 5PM MT & 4PM PT for “Great Soul Performances 2: The 80s”
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Tomorrow is “Father’s Day,” so this evening on “Great Soul Performances” we’ll play songs for “Dad” as well as pay a musical tribute to one of the greatest vocalists of all time, the late “Little” Jimmy Scott who passed away on Thursday. In addition you’ll hear: Major Harris, Joe Bataan, the Dells, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Michael Jackson from his “Xscape” CD, Minnie Riperton, Big Joe Turner, James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone and Stevie Wonder “live in concert” plus more.
This week on “Great Soul Performances” you’ll hear: Gladys Knight & the Pips, L.T.D., Michael Jackson, the Manhattans, Eugene Pitt, Voyage, High Inergy, the Temprees, David Ruffin, the Honey Cone, James Brown, the “Candy Licker” Marvin Sease, “live in concert,” and much more. It starts at 7PM ET, 6PM CT, 5PM MT & 4PM PT and don’t forget the encore performance on Labor Day, Monday, at 10PM eastern time on RadioMaxMusic.com.
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