If I Were Your Woman (song)
- If I Were Your Woman (song)
Infobox Single
Name = If I Were Your Woman
Artist = Gladys Knight & the Pips
from Album = If I Were Your Woman
B-side = "The Tracks of My Tears"
Released = November 1970
Genre = Soul
Length = 3:14
Label = Motown
Writer = Gloria Jones, Clay McMurray, Pam Sawyer
Producer = Clay McMurray
Last single = "You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)"
(1970)
This single = "If I Were Your Woman"
(1970)
Next single = "I Don't Want to Do Wrong"
(1971)"If I Were Your Woman" is a classic song recorded by R&B vocal group Gladys Knight & the Pips. The song was written by Pam Sawyer and Gloria Jones, who were talking over lunch one day about various women's issues when they got the idea for the song. The women's lib movement was gaining momentum, and the song explored how women could be committed in their relationships while remaining strong and independent. [ [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6819 If I Were Your Woman by Gladys Knight & The Pips Songfacts ] ] Sawyer and Jones brought the song to Motown producer Clay McMurray, who took over from Norman Whitfield as producer of Gladys Knight & the Pips. Whitfield loved the song and told McMurray that he felt it would be a hit. [ [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6819 If I Were Your Woman by Gladys Knight & The Pips Songfacts ] ] Released from the album of the same title, it spent one week at #1 on the Soul Singles chart in January of 1971. It was also successful on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, peaking at #9.
Chart positions
Cover versions
There have been numerous cover versions, most notably by Stephanie Mills. Her version peaked at #19 on the Hot Black Singles chart in 1988.
Alicia Keys recorded a medley of "If I Were Your Woman" and Isaac Hayes' 1969 version of Dionne Warwick's 1964 song "Walk on By" for her 2003 album "The Diary of Alicia Keys", entitled "If I Was Your Woman/Walk on By". Keys would later record a full version of the song in 2005 for her live album "Unplugged"; it received a nomination for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards.
The song has been sung twice on "American Idol". In the first season, Tamyra Gray sang it during the top seven week for the 1970s theme and in the seventh season, Syesha Mercado sang it during the top ten week for the "Year They Were Born" theme.The song was also sung on "Australian Idol (season 5)" by Tarisai Vushe on top 12 night.
References
succession box
before = "Groove Me" by King Floyd
title = Billboard's Best Selling Soul Singles number-one single
years = January 23 1971
after = "Groove Me" by King Floyd
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