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Pips and version
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.
Producer Norman Whitfield recorded four versions of the song with various artists for potential single release ; Knight and the Pips ' version was the only one that Motown chief Berry Gordy did not veto.
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.
After much talk, Gordy reluctantly allowed the Pips ' version to be a single on September 28, 1967 on Motown's Soul label.
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.
Whitfield wanted Gordy to release Gaye's " Grapevine " as a single, but Gordy didn't want to release another version after the Pips had already made a hit out of it.
Because of the success of both versions, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " was the first and last number one on the Billboard R & B chart in 1968: the Pips version was the first week of January, the Gaye version the last week of December.
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.
The Gladys Knight & the Pips version was the best-selling Motown single ever to that point, but it was replaced a year later by Gaye's version.
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 ".

Pips and Grapevine
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 ".
Gladys Knight & the Pips joined the Motown roster in 1966, and, although regarded as a second-string act, scored several hit singles, including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", ( recorded later by Marvin Gaye ), " Friendship Train " ( 1969 ), " If I Were Your Woman " ( 1970 ), " I Don't Want To Do Wrong " ( 1971 ), the Grammy Award winning " Neither One of Us ( Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye )" ( 1972 ), and " Daddy Could Swear ( I Declare )" ( 1973 ).
# " I Heard It Through The Grapevine " Knight & The Pips version-The Funk Brothers
Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded " Grapevine " on June 17, 1967 in Motown's Studio A, with Norman Whitfield as producer.
Gaye's " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " eventually outsold the Pips ', and until The Jackson 5's " I'll Be There " 20 months later, was the biggest hit single of all time on the Motown label.
He found a songwriting collaborator in lyricist Barrett Strong, the performer on Motown's first hit record, " Money ( That's What I Want )", and wrote material for The Temptations and other Motown artists such as Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, both of whom recorded Whitfield-produced hit versions of the Whitfield / Strong composition " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".
* 1967: " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " – Gladys Knight & the Pips, also recorded by Marvin Gaye and Creedence Clearwater Revival
Together, Strong and Whitfield wrote some of the most successful and critically acclaimed soul songs ever to be released by Motown, including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " by both Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips ; " War " by Edwin Starr ; " Smiling Faces Sometimes " by The Undisputed Truth ; and the long line of " psychedelic soul " records by The Temptations, including " Cloud Nine ", " I Can't Get Next to You ", " Psychedelic Shack ", " Ball of Confusion ( That's What the World Is Today )", and " Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone ", amongst others.
Whitfield was known for recording dramatically different versions of the same song with different Motown artists, including Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ' " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " ( re-recorded as hit records for Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Marvin Gaye ) and the Temptations ' " War " ( re-recorded as a hit for Edwin Starr ).
Among the Motown songs Benjamin performed the drum tracks for are early hits such as " Money ( That's What I Want )" by Barrett Strong and " Do You Love Me " by The Contours ; as well as later hits such as " Get Ready " by The Temptations, " Uptight ( Everything's Alright )" by Stevie Wonder, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " by Gladys Knight & the Pips and " Going To A Go-Go " by The Miracles.

Pips and number
The company moved all of its operations to Los Angeles in June 1972, with a number of artists, among them Martha Reeves, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Motown's Funk Brothers studio band, either staying behind in Detroit or leaving the company for other reasons.
After her contract was sold to Janus Records, Houston recorded several more singles in the early 1970s and another album, which included the original recording of Jim Weatherly's " Midnight Train to Georgia ", later a number one hit for Gladys Knight & The Pips.
" I Wish It Would Rain " has been covered by a number of artists, including Gladys Knight & the Pips ( peaking in the US at number 41 pop and 15 R & B ).

Pips and one
Although Holmes succeeds in obtaining a photograph of the woman, Adler flees, making her one of two women ( along with three other men according to The Five Orange Pips ) to beat Holmes.
" Neither One of Us " also happened to be one of their last Motown hits, as Knight and the Pips departed Motown for Buddah Records in 1973.
During one installment, comedian George Carlin, seated at a piano, performed the doo-wop song " Cherry Pie ", accompanied by the Pips.
As Edward Patten had died two years prior, one of Gladys Knight's current backing singers, Neil Taffe, accompanied the remaining Pips.
Pips are commonly colored black on white dice, and white on dice of other colors, although colored pips on white dice are not uncommon ; Japanese dice often have an enlarged red single pip for the " one " face, while the dice for the game Kismet feature black pips for 1 and 6, red pips for 2 and 5, and green pips for 3 and 4.
He was a successful songwriter ; one of his most famous compositions is " Every Beat of My Heart ", first recorded by The Royals in 1952 on Federal Records but which became a hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips then just ' Pips ' in 1961.
" The Five Orange Pips ", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
As a testament to the popularity of Russell's novels in his day, one can read about him at the beginning of the Sherlock Holmes story The Five Orange Pips, where Doctor Watson is shown ' deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea stories '.
Terry later claimed this made him feel like one of Gladys Knight's Pips, but Kenny had sung the hits and had the most identifiable voice.

Pips and on
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.
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.
The Pips toured on their own for two years, until Knight returned to the act in 1964 in order to support her two children.
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.
The Pips had appeared on Rogers ' television show with the First Edition several times in the early 1970s.
In 1987, Knight and the Pips released their final album, All Our Love, on MCA Records which was also certified gold.
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.
Knight and the Pips perform aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger on November 1, 1981.
Knight and the Pips continued to have hits until the late 1970s, when they were forced to record separately due to legal issues, resulting in Knight's first solo LP recordings -- Miss Gladys Knight ( 1978 ) on Buddah and Gladys Knight ( 1979 ) on Columbia Records.
While still with The Pips, Knight joined with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John on the 1986 AIDS benefit single, " That's What Friends Are For " which won a Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
She retired from the road to raise the child while The Pips toured on their own.
A fifth label, Soul, featured Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Jimmy Ruffin, Shorty Long, The Originals, and Gladys Knight & the Pips ( who had found success before joining Motown, as ' The Pips ' on Vee-Jay ).
During this time, he wrote and produced two songs on the Gladys Knight & the Pips record I Feel a Song, and in October 1974 performed in concert together with James Brown, Etta James, and B.
Claudine soundtrack was released on the group's record label, Buddah Records, and the film's theme song, " On & On ", was a # 5 hit for Knight and the Pips on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart in 1974.

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