Description
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2019
- Hit-filled 2CD collection by the iconic Gladys Knight & The Pips.
- 37-track set focussing on their consistent presence as mainstay global hitmakers from 1973-1985.
- Includes all 22 US charted hits released over a twelve- year span.
With liner notes by renowned US writer Kevin Goins including quotes from former Buddah executive Cecil Holmes, songwriter Jim Weatherley, arranger/musician Ray Chew and producer / songwriter Charles Kipps; with remastering by Nick Robbins, artwork by Roger Williams.
Initially achieving US acclaim in the early 60s with a 1966 contract with Motown, by the early 70s, Gladys & The Pips hit a new level of mainstream recognition.
Disc One of this anthology chronicles the group’s five-year run of non-stop hits for Buddah Records, including the timeless ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’, ‘Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me’ and a live medley of ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘Try To Remember’. Drawn from eight Buddah albums that included production by Curtis Mayfield, Tony Camillo and Van McCoy among others.
Disc Two chronicles the group’s five years with Columbia Records during which they initially reunited with Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson (with whom they had worked at Motown), resulting in further hits such as ‘Landlord’.