I've Got to Use My Imagination

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“I've Got to Use My Imagination”
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
from the album Imagination
Released 1973
Genre Soul
Length 3:29
Label Buddah
Writer(s) Gerry Goffin, Barry Goldberg
Producer Kenny Kerner
Gladys Knight & the Pips singles chronology
Midnight Train to Georgia
(1973)
I've Got to Use My Imagination
(1973)
Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
(1974)


"I've Got to Use My Imagination" is a well known song by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Released from the hit album, Imagination, which was their debut album with Buddah Records, the song was a success on the soul and pop charts. It spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1974 and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of their most popular songs. It eventually sold over a million copies.

[edit] Chart positions

Charts Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1


Preceded by
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" by Aretha Franklin
Billboard's Hot Soul number one single
January 19, 1974
Succeeded by
"Livin' for You" by Al Green