As I've mentioned previously, I think soul music in general had a big downturn in the 1980s for a variety of reasons, so this isn't the ideal time for a BBC concert for me. But this is what we've got. At least it came at a strong point for the group. The album they were supporting here, 1983's "Visions," was a commercial and critical comeback. It was their first album to reach Gold status (selling half a million copies) since 1975. That was largely due to the success of the song "Save the Overtime (For Me)," which hit Number One in the R&B singles chart.
This is entirely unreleased. The sound quality is good, though not outstanding.
This album is 56 minutes long.
01 Reach High (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02 Taste of Bitter Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
03 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
04 Neither One of Us [Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
05 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
06 I Will Fight (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
07 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
08 Just Be My Lover (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
09 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
10 Save the Overtime [For Me] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
11 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
12 You're Number One [In My Book] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
13 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
14 Every Beat of My Heart - Friendship Train - If I Were Your Woman - Daddy Could Swear, I Declare (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
15 Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
16 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
17 She Believes in Me (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
18 On the Wings of Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
19 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
20 I Won't Last a Day without You (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
21 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
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The cover photo is from a concert in Chicago, on June 26, 1983. Unfortunately I didn't see one showing all three of the Pips.
Always welcome a concert from these legends. Trouble is, the tendency then was to perform their greatest hits in medleys which shortened the concerts but cheapened the reasons why people would attend.
ReplyDeleteYeah. In this concert, they also played Midnight Train to Georgia at a surprisingly fast pace, which I don't like. I suspect for many bands like this, they get tired of their old hits after playing them zillions of times, and rush through them or play them in medleys to get them over with.
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