Gadys Knight & the Pips Live at Soul!, WNET studios, New York City - 1972 (audio only)
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 Published On Feb 7, 2023

Gadys Knight & the Pips Live at Soul!, WNET studios, New York City, 02-09-1972.
-Setlist:
01. Intro (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02. The Nitty Gritty (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
03. talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
04. Make Me the Woman You Go Home To (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
05. Friendship Train (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
06. If I Were Your Woman (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
07. I Heard It through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
08. Intro to Help Me Make It through the Night (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
09. Help Me Make It through the Night (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
10.. Intro to I Don't Want to Do Wrong (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
11. I Don't Want to Do Wrong (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
12. Every Beat of My Heart (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
13. You're All I Need to Get By (Kin Vassy & Gladys Knight)

Gadys Knight & the Pips (1972):
Gladys Knight (1952–1962, 1964–1989)
Merald "Bubba" Knight (1952–1989)
William Guest (1952–1989; died 2015)
Edward Patten (1959–1989; died 2005)

Al Thompson: drums
Gary Harris: bass
Jerry Patterson: lead guitar

Swinging Soul Orchestra

Maurice King: music director

Two songs added at the end. The first, "Every Beat of My Heart," comes from the band's appearance on the British TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" later in 1972. The second one, "You're All I Need to Get By," is from a Canadian TV show called "Rollin' On the River." This show was hosted by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Knight sang a duet with Kin Vassy, who was a member of the First Edition at the time. The two of them sang live, but there was no sign of any backing band on stage, so they probably sang to a backing track.
(Thanks to albumsthatshouldexist).

Gladys Knight & the Pips were an American R&B, soul and funk family music group from Atlanta, Georgia, that remained active on the music charts and performing circuit for over three decades starting from the early 1950s.
Starting out as simply The Pips in 1952, derived from a cousin's nickname, the founding members were Gladys Knight, brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, sister Brenda Knight and cousins Eleanor Guest and William Guest. After a couple of years performing in talent shows, the group signed with Brunswick Records in 1957, recording a couple of singles that failed to chart. Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest eventually left the group and were replaced by another cousin, Edward Patten, and a non-relative, Langston George in 1959. This lineup produced the group's first hit single, "Every Beat of My Heart". After the single was released on three different labels, they changed their name to Gladys Knight & the Pips in 1961. Langston George left the same year and Gladys Knight left in 1962 to start a family with musician Jimmy Newman. Knight rejoined in 1964 and this lineup continued until the group's disbandment in 1989.
The group reached commercial success after signing with Motown Records in 1966. After a year and a half, the group recorded the first hit single version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in 1967, which led to several hit singles for Motown's Soul Records label, including "Nitty Gritty", "Friendship Train", "If I Were Your Woman", "I Don't Want to Do Wrong" and the Grammy-winning "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)", before leaving the label for Buddah Records in 1973. At Buddah, they recorded the hits "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me", "I've Got to Use My Imagination", "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)" and their Grammy-winning and number-one hit single, "Midnight Train to Georgia". In 1974, they recorded the soundtrack to the successful film Claudine with producer Curtis Mayfield, which included the songs "On and On", "The Makings of You" and "Make Yours a Happy Home". Contractual difficulties with their labels forced the group to record side projects from 1977 until 1980 when they signed with Columbia Records. Later hits included "Landlord", "Save the Overtime (For Me)" and the Grammy-winning single "Love Overboard". In 1989, the group disbanded with the Pips retiring and Knight embarking on a successful solo career.
Gladys Knight & the Pips are multiple Grammy and American Music Award winners and are inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1996 and 2001 respectively.
(Wikipedia).

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