The Best Of Gladys Knight & The Pips (Legacy)

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Producers include: Nicholas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, Gladys Knight, Sam Dees, Leon Sylvers. Includes liner notes by Carol Cooper. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Gladys Knight (vocals, background vocals); Merald "Bubba" Knight (vocals, drum programming, background vocals); William Guest (vocals, background vocals); Eric Gale , Richard Carion, Thomas Organ, John McClain, Spencer Bean, Ernest "Pepper" Reed (guitar); Eddie Daniels (alto saxophone); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Howard Johnson , Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone); Jon Faddis (trumpet); Donald Corrado, John Cooper Clarke (French horn); Valerie Simpson (piano); Philip Woo (Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Gail Deadrick, Ray Chew (Fender Rhodes piano); Kevin Walker (keyboards, synthesizer, bass synthesizer, drum programming); Dana Marshall (keyboards, synthesizer); James Harris III , William "Dr. Z." Zimmerman (keyboards, bass synthesizer); Kenny Moore, Isaias Gamboa, Ron Oats, Joey Gallo, Monte Moir, Rickey Smith (keyboards); Kevin Spencer (synthesizer); Chris Parker , Al Thompson, James Stroud, Wardell Potts, Jr., Vincent Brantley (drums); David Knights (congas, percussion); Leon Sylvers III (congas); Jimmy Simpson (hand claps, percussion); Ralph MacDonald (percussion). Audio Mixers: Jimmy Simpson; John Luongo; Michael Brauer. Audio Remixer: John Luongo. Liner Note Author: Carol Cooper. Recording information: The Roxy, W. Hollywood, CA. Director: Victor Hall. Arrangers: Edmund Sylvers; Dana Marshall; Wilmer Raglin; Horace Ott; Ron Oats; Kevin Walker; James Harris III ; William "Dr. Z." Zimmerman; Leon Sylvers III; Nickolas Ashford; Paul Riser; Ray Chew; Rob Mounsey; Valerie Simpson; William Guest; Gladys Knight; Terry Lewis. The title of Columbia/Legacy's 2001 release The Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips is patently untrue. If this was called "The Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips: 1980-1985" it would be truth in advertising, since the first 12 tracks chronicle her and the Pips' minor R&B hits from that time period. Of these songs, only two -- "Landlord" and "Save the Overtime (For Me)" -- made the pop charts, and while that isn't necessary a sign that they're not great, it does show that a pop-oriented soul group couldn't make the pop charts with these recordings. There is some good material here, since they worked with Ashford & Simpson and Leon Sylvers during this time (plus there's the original version of "Wind Beneath My Wings," originally called "Hero"), and this summarizes this era very well (even if the live Motown medley and live versions of "Midnight Train to Georgia" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" feel like tacky tacked-on bonus tracks). Just don't think that this is the best the group did. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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