* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress ( Gladys Knight & the Pips )

It featured artists such as Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, k. d.

Music by Motown artists such as Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and the Supremes did much to popularize what became known as the Motown sound.

* 2000: R & B singer Gladys Knight and actress Roma Downey

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

In 1996, Norwood also collaborated with Tamia, Chaka Khan, and Gladys Knight on the single " Missing You ," released from the Set It Off soundtrack.

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* Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The following artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground.

* Gladys Knight

Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded Mayfield's soundtrack for Claudine in 1974, while Aretha Franklin recorded the soundtrack for Sparkle in 1976.

He was exposed to the soul music of Motown, Stax, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers and Gamble and Huff growing up who were key influences on his musical style.

Two years later they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, together with Gladys Knight and The Pips.

Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R & B / soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989.

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, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Shortly afterwards, Langston George left the group, and the remaining members continued as a quartet, now billed as Gladys Knight & the Pips.

Gladys Knight & the Pips ' Motown long-playing debut, Everybody Needs Love ( Gladys Knight & the Pips album ) | Everybody Needs Love ( 1967 ), which includes their hit single " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".

* Millett ; John D. & Gladys Ogden.

and Margery & Gladys as well as the film Kevin & Perry Go Large ( 2000 ).

* Lo que le Pasó a Santiago ( 1989 ), with Tommy Muñiz & Gladys Rodríguez

Gladys Du Bois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks

Gladys DuBois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks

Con Conrad, Gladys Du Bois, Russ Columbo & Paul Gregory

Many of Gladys Knight and the Pips ' hits in the mid-1970s were written by country songwriter Jim Weatherly.

Gladys Knight & the Pips ' debut LP on Buddah, Imagination, was certified as a gold record.

The following year, the group got their own hour-long musical variety television program, The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show, which ran for four episodes on NBC as a summer-season replacement.

In 1977, the Pips ( minus Gladys ) appeared on comedian Richard Pryor's TV special that aired on NBC.

Gladys Knight & the Pips embarked on their final tour in 1988 and disbanded upon its conclusion, as Gladys Knight decided she wanted to pursue a solo career.

The Pips retired, while Gladys Knight began scoring hits of her own with singles such as " Men " ( 1991 ) and " I Don't Want to Know " ( 1994 ).

Gladys Knight & the Pips are ranked as the ninth most successful act in The Billboard Top 40 Book of R & B and Hip-Hop Hits ( 2005 ).

In June 2006, Gladys Knight & the Pips were inducted into the Apollo Theater's Hall Of Fame in New York City.

As Edward Patten had died two years prior, one of Gladys Knight's current backing singers, Neil Taffe, accompanied the remaining Pips.

According to the official Vatican version, Estermann and his wife, Gladys Meza Romero, were killed by the young Swiss Guard Cédric Tornay, who later committed suicide.

She was seen on television, and she recreated her performance as Gladys in the film version of The Pajama Game ( 1957 ).

It was later covered by Dionne Warwick & Friends ( Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John ); Warwick's version became a Billboard Grammy Award-winning # 1 hit and raised millions for AIDS causes.

In the original production, and in the film version, the famed dance number " Steam Heat " was danced by Gladys.

This song was also honored for its cover version in 1986 by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Sir Elton John.

Brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town ( 1949 ), Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several films, before being cast as Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched in 1964.

Cover versions of her hits have been recorded by Madeline Bell, The Belle Stars, Laura Branigan, Aaron Carter, Gary Glitter, Ricardo Ray, Pia Zadora, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Gladys Knight and the Pips ( a version of " The Nitty Gritty ", produced by Norman Whitfield ).

*" Hero ", a version of " Wind Beneath My Wings " recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips

His work includes Motown hits such as, among hundreds of others, " Shotgun " by Jr. Walker & the All Stars, " For Once in My Life ", " I Was Made To Love Her " by Stevie Wonder ( sometimes noted as being claimed by Carol Kaye, Ms Kaye actually claims the track on the late 60s Beach Boys version of the same song ), " Going to a Go-Go " by The Miracles, " My Girl " by The Temptations, " Dancing in the Street " by Martha and the Vandellas, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and later by Marvin Gaye, and most of the album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, " Reach Out I'll Be There " and " Bernadette " by the Four Tops, and " You Can't Hurry Love " by The Supremes.

After recording the song with Marvin Gaye in 1967, which Gordy also rejected, Whitfield recorded a version with Gladys Knight & the Pips, which Gordy agreed to release as a single in September 1967, and which went to number two in the Billboard chart.

Gordy accepted the new arrangement and the Gladys Knight version was released as a single in September 1967, reaching number 2 in the charts.

In 1968 Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers recorded a version for their debut album based on Gladys ' recent hit ; though, after hearing the Marvin Gaye version, they felt they'd made the wrong choice.

The first release was the Gladys Knight & the Pips version on September 28, 1967 on Motown's Soul label, with " It ’ s Time To Go Now " on the b-side.

Gladys Knight was not pleased that Gaye's version usurped her own, and claimed that Gaye's version was recorded over an instrumental track Whitfield had prepared for a Pips song, an allegation Gaye denied.

* 2006: Gladys Knight and the Saints Unified Voices choir released a version of the song on their Grammy Award-winning Christmas album, A Christmas Celebration.

The first eight episodes of the second season also featured a remixed version of the theme song, sung by Gladys and Bubba Knight ; with the November 27, 1982 episode (" Jan, Part 1 "), the original version of the theme was reinstated for the title sequence only, while the closing credits retained the outro track recorded by the Knights.

In 1975 Gladys Knight & the Pips had a huge international hit with their version of " Try to Remember ", combining it into a medley with a cover of Barbra Streisand's " The Way We Were ".