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

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.

Curtis Mayfield served as producer in 1974 when Knight and the Pips recorded the soundtrack to the motion picture Claudine, resulting in a # 5 hit in the film's theme song, " On and On ".

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

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.

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.

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 ).

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

In 1987, Knight decided to pursue a solo career, and she and the Pips recorded their final LP together, All Our Love ( 1987 ), for MCA Records.

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.

Melvin Ragin better known by the nickname Wah-wah Watson, was a member of the Motown Records studio band, The Funk Brothers, where he recorded with artists like The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and The Supremes.

Still in 1981 Gladys Knight & The Pips from Atlanta, Georgia recorded Forever Yesterday ( For The Children ).

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

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.

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.

Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded " Grapevine " on June 17, 1967 in Motown's Studio A, with Norman Whitfield as producer.

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.

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

The Pips ' version of " Grapevine " reached number one on the Billboard R & B chart on November 25, 1967, and stayed there for six weeks, making it the group's second R & B number one after 1961's " Every Beat of My Heart ".

" Midnight Train to Georgia " is a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, their second release after departing Motown Records for Buddah Records.

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 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.

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 ".

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.

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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 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.

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

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.

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 ".

The Pips had appeared on Rogers ' television show with the First Edition several times in the early 1970s.

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.

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

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

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.

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.