I love her voice so much.
Also: "Save the Overtime (For Me)' and "License to Kill".
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 28, 2021 2:04 PM |
I can sing along to most of the songs on this list, but I only dance like an idiot in my car to “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination”.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 28, 2021 2:11 PM |
I actually like her The Way We Were version. It was interesting. Her phrasing of it was kind of behind the beat, or she didn't sing the melody where she should've sung it. It sounded like she came in late but it was intentional, you know? But it worked!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 28, 2021 2:16 PM |
"I actually like her The Way We Were version. It was interesting. Her phrasing of it was kind of behind the beat, or she didn't sing the melody where she should've sung it. It sounded like she came in late but it was intentional, you know? But it worked!"
Meh...I've heard better...
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 28, 2021 2:20 PM |
"Midnight Train to Georgia" is retired to my personal GK&P Hall of Fame.
But for the sheer melodrama, over the top, soap operas aspect of "If I Were Your Woman", and of course the superb, vocal cry and delivery of Ms. Knight, that is m fave single.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 28, 2021 2:21 PM |
Analinkus.
And, I blaspheme, but, I've always preferred Gladys' sound to Aretha's.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 28, 2021 2:24 PM |
[quote] And, I blaspheme, but, I've always preferred Gladys' sound to Aretha's.
Chile, you better hope Aretha's ghost is haunting a Cracker Barrel and NOT checking out Datalounge.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 28, 2021 2:35 PM |
How could you leave out "Friendship Train" you fat WHORE??
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 28, 2021 2:57 PM |
Free Again/I Will Survive.....just beautiful!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 28, 2021 8:06 PM |
Although all four of them shine in this one, Gladys' voice is so powerful here.
Trivia: Although first recorded by Rod Stewart in 1982, this song was re-released in 1986 by "Dionne & Friends" to raise money for AIDS research.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 28, 2021 9:37 PM |
I like her James Bond song from 1989 - License to Kill.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 28, 2021 9:44 PM |
L A proved too much for the man....
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 28, 2021 9:54 PM |
He couldn’t take it (it = 24/7, anon WeHo cock).
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 28, 2021 10:00 PM |
Don't forget the DL theme song
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 28, 2021 10:00 PM |
Good Christ, R12's video must be what Sandra Bernhard meant when she mentioned someone was on a real "theater people trip."
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 28, 2021 10:04 PM |
[quote]"Midnight Train to Georgia" is retired to my personal GK&P Hall of Fame.
Am I the only one who thinks of Growing Pains when they hear this song? It was featured in a few episodes.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 28, 2021 10:14 PM |
"Save the Overtime for Me" and "You're Number One in My Book" are underrated gems.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 29, 2021 12:48 AM |
I prefer their version of Hero Wind Beneath My Wings over Bette Midlers. Bette had a big hit with it but it was plain by comparison IMHO.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 29, 2021 6:26 AM |
Love Overboard is the best. It deserved a top ten rank.
On and On is great too.
Her "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," should leave Marvin feeling ashamed. I don't know why people preferred his version. Must be drugs.
Her #1 "Midnight Train To Georgia" was originally "Midnight Plane To Houston," but TPTB thought blacks were too poor to ride planes.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 29, 2021 1:13 PM |
I agree with R22 about "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Gladys' version achieved only middling expense on the charts, while Marvin's soared to #1.
Barry must have laid the payola on thick for Marvin's version.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 29, 2021 1:29 PM |
Love Gladys...one of her best.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 29, 2021 3:04 PM |
[quote]I agree with [R22] about "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Gladys' version achieved only middling expense on the charts, while Marvin's soared to #1.
Actually Gladys took "Grapevine" to #2, while Marvin went to #1 for seven weeks. Gladys's version was prevented from going to #1 by the Monkees' "Daydream Believer"
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 29, 2021 3:48 PM |
Daddy Could Swear, I Declare.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 29, 2021 4:24 PM |
either I Heard It Through the Grapevine or Everybody Needs Love
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 29, 2021 4:57 PM |
r27
No, you can't pick two, the OP said BEST, meaning ONE.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 29, 2021 6:40 PM |
No way was Gladys' Grapevine better than Marvin's. Hers was an okay cover. Marvin's was a classic.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 29, 2021 9:47 PM |
R21, Sheena Easton’s version of “Wind” is much better than Gladys and Bette!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 29, 2021 11:01 PM |
I sure found out the hard way dreams don't always come true.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 29, 2021 11:04 PM |
She did an amazing version of The Way We Were some decades ago on VH1. Just beautiful and absolutely superb!!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 30, 2021 2:15 AM |
Gladys' voice has endured remarkably well.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 30, 2021 2:18 AM |
I agree with R20. Those are two of my favorites. I also like "Love Overboard."
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 30, 2021 2:31 AM |
I love all the choices. But for me. If I Were Your Woman is sublime. I've heard that song at least 1000 times, yet when she sings "you're a part of me, and you don't even know it", I still get emotional.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 30, 2021 2:34 AM |
It Should Have Been Me is my favorite! I love Gladys, sans et avec Pips!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 30, 2021 2:34 AM |
R28 I said OR, pick one, dumbass
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 30, 2021 2:37 AM |
I lived through "Neither One of Us" in real life. He played it at me a lot as we were breaking up. I responded with Melissa Manchester's "Midnight Blue." One Sunday afternoon, after I'd left his apartment, we both ended up at the bar we used to hang out at. We were staring at each other from about five feet away when "Midnight Blue" came on. I left. I didn't see him again for years.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 30, 2021 2:42 AM |
R38, girl please. We know you gotten caught blowing the restaurant cook.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 30, 2021 5:03 AM |
This live version of Make Me The Woman you Come Home to is fantastic especially the end.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 30, 2021 5:35 AM |
[quote] I lived through "Neither One of Us" in real life. He played it at me a lot as we were breaking up. I responded with Melissa Manchester's "Midnight Blue." One Sunday afternoon, after I'd left his apartment, we both ended up at the bar we used to hang out at. We were staring at each other from about five feet away when "Midnight Blue" came on. I left. I didn't see him again for years.
And the entire bar yelled "MARY" on your way out.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 30, 2021 5:36 AM |
You're the Best Thing is probably my favorite.
Here she is, doing a nice rendition of that song. Still sounds great.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 30, 2021 5:40 AM |
How does Knight perform her vocal gymnastics and it never sounds forced? It never sounds show-offy? It never sounds calculatedly overwrought?
(I'm thinking of, but won't mention their names, both dead and alive, who don't want to show me, they want to, with excessive delivery, tell me, the song's story.)
And the kicker is; Knight's genius and talent is, that perhaps she IS deliberately doing all 3, but still, she sounds as natural and honest as can be.
Pure talent, talent, talent. Did I mention talent?
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 30, 2021 1:43 PM |
Yeah yeah r45 your referring to Aretha and Patti, we know we know.
This clip always makes me laugh. Gladys is such on the straight and narrow, I'm sure she was pissed off that Chaka turned out high for their live collab. Even Etta winced for a moment, unsure of what Chaka was gonna do in her state at the time. They all pulled it off in the end.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 30, 2021 6:32 PM |
r37
NO, You made the statement so YOU Have to pick one. Your anus is the ignorant anus in the room
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 30, 2021 11:10 PM |
Saw her show in Vegas many years ago. She had one very irritating Pip on the bill with her who we could only assume she felt sorry for and offered him the gig. She sang like a dream. Loved Please Help Me I'm Falling - best of the whole night. The Way We Were? Hmm I think that safely stays the property of a certain Mrs James Brolin of Malibu.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 30, 2021 11:22 PM |
Imagine reporting on your tax return that your line of work was "Pip."
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 31, 2021 2:15 PM |
R48, one of the Pips ("Bubba") was her brother, so perhaps it was him with her.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 1, 2022 2:33 AM |
[quote]The Way We Were? Hmm I think that safely stays the property of a certain Mrs James Brolin of Malibu.
Not really! Hitting some nice notes isn't singing a song.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 1, 2022 2:37 AM |
I mean I still love Barbra's version but Gladys' hits differently
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 1, 2022 1:38 PM |
By the time Gladys' last Motown album "Neither One of Us" hit the charts, she and the Pips were on their way to Buddah Records, pissed at the lack of promotion Motown for their projects (as well as a lot of other Motown artists). Barry was putting all his eggs in the Diana Ross basket, and there simply wasn't enough money to promote Ross and all the other Motown groups and individuals.
Rolling Stone praised "Neither One of Us" as one of their best albums for Motown, as well as The Four Tops final Motown album, "Nature Planned It," but both groups had bolted Motown by the time the reviews were printed.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 1, 2022 3:45 PM |
She is my second favorite colored singer right behind Darlene Ross !!!! I loved her song Midnight Train to Peoria !!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 1, 2022 4:13 PM |
Gladys and the Pips were not treated well by Motown. They opened for the Supremes on tour and apparently La Ross was not happy with how enthusiastic the crowd was for the opening act. She called Gordy and has them booted from the tour.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 1, 2022 4:17 PM |
I had JUST listened to Gladyss sing ‘Do You hear What I hear’ when i saw this thread. Her voice is a true gift. Still, i have to agree with my pick:
[quote] I can sing along to most of the songs on this list, but I only dance like an idiot in my car to “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 1, 2022 4:19 PM |
