Gladys Knight & the Pips - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, BBC Studios, London, Britain, 4-14-1981

I'm writing this in February 2025. I was only last month when I discovered a Gladys Knight and the Pips BBC concert, which took place in 1983. I thought that was the only one. But here I am, already renumbering that one to "Volume 2" to make room for this one, which I just discovered. Sorry about all the renumbering, folks! I assume that'll eventually settle down as I find most everything that's available.

This is from a BBC TV show, and is unreleased. It aired in two parts of about half an hour each. Luckily, there was one only song played in both shows: "Bourgie, Bourgie." The version for the first show was cut off right in the middle of the song, probably because the time slot given for the show ran out. So I just didn't use that version, since the version in the second show is complete. I also cut out a little bit of dialogue at the start of the second show that mentioned it was the beginning of the show. I thought it would be confusing to hear that halfway through the album.

In 1981, Gladys Knight and the Pips released the studio album "Touch." It was only a moderate hit, but it contain three minor hit singles: "Bourgie, Bourgie," "Landlord," and "Taste of Bitter Love." All three were performed here. Most of the other songs were classics from other albums or cover versions, like a slowed down version of the smash disco hit "I Will Survive."

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 Come Back and Finish What You Started (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02 I Feel a Song [In My Heart] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
03 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
04 Baby Don't Change Your Mind (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
05 She Believes in Me (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
06 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
07 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
08 Try to Remember - The Way We Were (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
09 Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
10 I've Got to Use My Imagination [Edit] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
11 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
12 Part Time Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
13 Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
14 Landlord (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
15 Bourgie, Bourgie (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
16 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
17 Help Me Make It through the Night (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
18 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
19 Free Again - I Will Survive (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
20 Taste of Bitter Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/S8q38vwAas69bQa/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the US TV show "American Bandstand" on August 15, 1981 in Los Angeles. I went with that instead of a screenshot from this exact concert due to an image quality difference.