Everybody Needs Love (album)
| Everybody Needs Love | ||||
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| Studio album by Gladys Knight & the Pips | ||||
| Released | September 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 1966–1967 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 34:12 | |||
| Label |
Soul SS 706 | |||
| Producer | Norman Whitfield, Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Smokey Robinson | |||
| Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Everybody Needs Love is the 1967 debut album by Gladys Knight & the Pips and their first album for Motown Records' Soul imprint. The LP, chiefly produced by Norman Whitfield, features the singles "Just Walk in My Shoes", the 1966 group's Motown debut, "Everybody Needs Love", and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
"Everybody Needs Love", which peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100, was Knight & the Pips first major Motown hit, but "Grapevine", which peaked at number 2, was a major success for the group and Motown. Selling over 2.5 million copies, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became Motown's best-selling single to that point.[2] Its success would be overshadowed by Marvin Gaye's version of the song, which would be issued on Motown's Tamla label a year after Knight & the Pips' recording.
Track listing
| Side one | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "Everybody Needs Love" | Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr. | 2:57 |
| 2. | "I'll Be Standing By" | Valerie Simpson, Nickolas Ashford | 2:22 |
| 3. | "Since I've Lost You" | Whitfield, Barrett Strong | 2:34 |
| 4. | "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" | Whitfield, Strong | 2:58 |
| 5. | "You Don't Love Me No More" | Whitfield, Strong, Roger Penzabene | 2:28 |
| 6. | "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" | Whitfield, Sylvia Moy, Cornelius Grant | 2:26 |
| Side two | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 7. | "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" | Strong, Penzabene, Grant | 2:54 |
| 8. | "He's My Kind of Fella" | Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol | 2:53 |
| 9. | "Yes, I'm Ready" | Barbara Mason | 3:00 |
| 10. | "My Bed of Thorns" | William "Smokey" Robinson | 2:52 |
| 11. | "Do You Love Me Just a Little, Honey" | Bristol, Fuqua, Vernon Bullock, Gladys Knight | 2:59 |
| 12. | "Just Walk in My Shoes" | Helen Lewis Mastor, Kay Lewis Miller | 2:26 |
Charts
| Chart (1967) | Peak [3] |
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| U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 60 |
| U.S. Billboard Top R&B LPs | 12 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions[3] | ||
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| US | US R&B |
UK[4] | ||
| 1966 | "Just Walk in My Shoes" | 129 | — | 35 |
| 1967 | "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" | 98 | — | 13 |
| "Everybody Needs Love" | 39 | 3 | — | |
| "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" | 2 | 1 | 47 | |
Personnel
- Gladys Knight: lead vocals
- Merald "Bubba" Knight, William Guest, and Edward Patten: background vocals
- The Funk Brothers: instrumentation
References
- ↑ Lowe, John. Everybody Needs Love review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ↑ George, Nelson (1985, rev. 2003). Where Did Our Love Go: The Rise and Fall of the Motown. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-9511-6.
- 1 2 "US Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ↑ "UK Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
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