![]() ![]() Three years elapsed before the Pips' next sessions, which produced a version of Johnny Otis' "Every Beat of My Heart" for the small Huntom label. They first recorded for Brunswick Records in 1958, releasing the single "Whistle My Love." Another cousin of the Knights, Edward Patten, along with Langston George, were brought into the group the following year when Brenda and Eleanor left to get married. Calling themselves the Pips, after their cousin James "Pips" Woods, the youngsters sang supper-club material from Monday through Saturday and gospel music on Sundays. Gladys Knight, her brother Merald "Bubba," sister Brenda, and cousins Eleanor Guest and William Guest formed their first vocal group in their native Atlanta, Georgia in 1952. Among Knight's later releases is the 2014 Top Ten gospel album Where My Heart Belongs. The singer's solitary discography includes an assortment of adult contemporary R&B, gospel, and jazz recordings, highlighted by the Grammy-winning 2001 album At Last and awarded collaborations with Saints Unified Voices and Ray Charles. Having released her first two Pips-less albums during the late '70s, Knight began a full-time solo career during the early '90s. Knight & the Pips remained together through the '80s, a period that entailed the additional R&B Top Ten entries "Landlord," "Save the Overtime (For Me)," and the Grammy-winning "Love Overboard," and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the following decade. She was also cherished by several nieces and nephews.Steeped in the gospel tradition like so many early R&B groups, Gladys Knight & the Pips topped the Billboard R&B chart for the first time in 1961 with "Every Beat of My Heart" and later in the decade developed into one of Motown's most dependable acts, responsible for 11 Top Ten R&B hits from 1966 through 1972, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "The Nitty Gritty," "If I Were Your Woman," and the Grammy-winning "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)." The group doubled its quantity of Top Ten R&B hits with the Buddah label through 1978, with second Grammy winner "Midnight Train to Georgia," "I've Got to Use My Imagination," and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" accounting for a streak of chart-toppers off the gold-selling album Imagination. ![]() She was loved and cherished by many people including : her parents, Margaret Carraway and Charles Carraway her husband Ronald Knight her children, Edward Knight, Rhonda Pittman (Eddie), Nancy Knight and Wanda Kirkland (Travis) her grandchildren, Jason Luke Knight, Audra Derrenberger (Shawn), Avis Armstrong (John-Wayne) and Melissa Downing (Triston) her siblings, Mary Laird and Glenn Carraway (Gail) and her great grandchildren, Will, Lorelai, Ben, Isaac and Valerie. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Gladys Louise Knight to show support. ![]() Family and friends can send flowers and/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Gladys Louise Knight of Panama City, Florida, who passed away at the age of 82, on November 18, 2020. It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish.
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