词条 | The Ultimate Collection (Gladys Knight and The Pips album) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = The Ultimate Collection | type = Compilation | artist = Gladys Knight and The Pips | cover = Ultimategladysknight.jpg | alt = | released = October 7, 1997 | recorded = 1966-1974 | venue = | studio = | genre = Soul music | length = 74:01 | label = Motown Records | producer = Harry Weinger | prev_title = Anthology (version 3) | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = Essential Collection | next_year = 1999 }}{{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[1] }} The Ultimate Collection is a compact disc by Gladys Knight and The Pips, released on Motown Records, catalogue MOTD 0826, in October 1997. It is a collection of singles comprising many of the group's greatest hits, with liner notes written by Ruth Adkins Robinson. ContentThe disc contains every Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and twelve top ten Rhythm and Blues singles chart hits enjoyed by Gladys Knight and the Pips that were released on the Motown associate label Soul Records imprint. One track was never released as a single, her cover of "Every Little Bit Hurts" previously done by fellow Motown artist Brenda Holloway, this version appearing on a full album of cover songs from 1968, Soul SS711 Silk 'n' Soul. One track is a b-side, "It's Time to Go Now" the flip of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," released a year before the version by Marvin Gaye. The song "Here I Am Again" was initially slated to be Soul 35111 and withdrawn from release; that single designation went to "Between Her Goodbye and My Hello." The disc was part of an "Ultimate Collection" series issued that year by Motown for many of their top-selling classic artists. Starting in the late 1960s and early 1970s, standard industry practice shifted to a focus on album sales, where a single became less a separate entity and more simply an advertisement for an LP, and a lead single would be pulled off an album as a promotional tool. Prior to this, singles were concentrated upon as a profitable commodity, especially for smaller record labels, and albums were often built around already successful singles. Since Motown fixated on the hit single until the very end of its stay in Detroit, single versions of songs often featured different mixes than versions that would be later placed on albums. Singles were usually mixed "punchier" and "hotter" to sound better on car radios receiving AM broadcast.[2] The single versions are the ones appearing here. Personnel
Track listingSingles chart peak positions from Billboard charts; for catalogue item Soul SS711 from Billboard 200.
References1. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r315160|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] {{Gladys Knight & the Pips}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ultimate Collection (Gladys Knight and The Pips album)}}{{1990s-pop-album-stub}}2. ^George, Nelson. Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. {{ISBN|0-312-86698-4}}, pp. 113-114. 3 : Gladys Knight & the Pips albums|1997 compilation albums|Motown compilation albums |
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