In 1980, the Pips signed to Columbia Records, for which Knight had recorded her second solo album.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

A fifth label, Soul, featured Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Jimmy Ruffin, Shorty Long, and Gladys Knight & the Pips ( who had found success before joining Motown, as ' The Pips ' on Vee-Jay ).

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.

Crysta seemingly sacrifices herself like Magi did by allowing Hexxus to devour her completely, and uses her powers from inside him to grow a seed she had with her, imprisoning both Hexxus and the leveler inside a new tree with help from the fairies led by Pips.

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 ".

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

In 2007, The Pips appeared in a commercial for the auto insurance company Geico.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the A & E Network television program Biography, Knight stated that she and the Pips were regarded as a second-string act, and that " Diana ( Ross ) & the Supremes, The Temptations, and Marvin Gaye were given all the hits, while we took the leftovers.

The 1945 film Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear is partly based on " The Five Orange Pips ," as is " The Great Game ," the third episode of the 2010 television series Sherlock, which uses several of Doyle's stories as inspiration.

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.

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.

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

The Pips began to perform and tour, eventually replacing Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest with cousins Langston George and Edward Patten in 1959.

The Pips scored their first hit in 1961 with " Every Beat of My Heart ", a cover of a Hank Ballard & The Midnighters song written by Johnny Otis.

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.

In spite of another hit with 1964's " Giving Up " ( later covered by Donny Hathaway ), Knight and the Pips did not achieve widespread success until 1966, after signing to Motown Records.

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.

While at Motown, Knight & the Pips recorded for Soul Records, a label Motown used for acts that recorded material with more of an R & B flavor than a pop flavor.

Knight and the Pips charted with five of Weatherly's songs in 1973 and 1974: " Midnight Train to Georgia ," " Neither One of Us ," " Where Peaceful Waters Flow ," " The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me ," and " Between Her Goodbye and My Hello.

From 1978 to 1980, Knight and the Pips were forced to record separately due to legal problems with Buddah.

Teaming up with songwriting husband / wife duo Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Knight & The Pips released the album About Love in 1980, which featured " Landlord " and " Taste Of Bitter Love ".

Ashford & Simpson continued with Knight and the Pips for the 1981 follow-up, Touch, featuring " I Will Fight " and a cover of " I Will Survive ".

After an international tour, Knight and the Pips recorded the LP Visions ( 1983 ), which resulted in a # 1 R & B hit with " Save the Overtime ( For Me )" and was certified gold.

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 ).

Edward Patten of the Pips died in February 2005, of complications from his long bout with diabetes.

She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald " Bubba " Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.

Knight has won a total of seven Grammy awards ( four as a solo artist, and three with The Pips ).

In the summer of 1974, Knight and the Pips recorded the soundtrack to the successful film Claudine with producer Curtis Mayfield.

Signing with Columbia Records in 1980 and restored to its familiar quartet form, Gladys Knight & the Pips began releasing new material.

After giving birth in 1963 to a daughter, Kenya, Knight returned to recording with the Pips in order to support her family.

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.