Everybody Needs Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips album)

Infobox Album | Name = Everybody Needs Love
Type = Album
Artist = 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
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39fwxql5ldhe link]
Last album = "Gladys Knight & the Pips"
(1964)
This album = "Everybody Needs Love"
(1967)
Next album = "Feelin' Bluesey"
(1968)

"Everybody Needs Love" is a 1967 album by Gladys Knight & the Pips, 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. Sellng over 2.5 million copies, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became Motown's best-selling single to that point. [George, Nelson (1985, rev. 2003). "Where Did Our Love Go: The Rise and Fall of the Motown". London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9511-7.] 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.

Tracklist

ide one

# "Everybody Needs Love" (Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.)
# "I'll Be Standing By" (Nickolas Asford, Valerie Simpson)
# "Since I've Lost You" (Whitfield)
# "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Whitfield, Barrett Strong)
# "You Don't Love Me No More" (Whitfield, Strong, Roger Penzabene)
# "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" (Whitfield, Cornelius Grant, Sylvia Moy)

ide two

# "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" (Strong, Penzabene, Grant)
# "He's My Kind of Fellow" (Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol)
# "Yes I'm Ready" (Barbara Mason)
# "My Bed of Thorns" (Smokey Robinson)
# "Do You Love Me Just a Little, Honey" (Bristol, Fuqua, Vernon Bullock, Gladys Knight)
# "Just Walk in My Shoes: {Helen Lewis Mastor, Kay Lewis Miller)

Charts

Album

ingles

Personnel

* Gladys Knight: lead vocals
* Merald "Bubba" Knight, William Guest, and Edward Patten: background vocals
* The Funk Brothers: instrumentation

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