Track Listing

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. The End Of Our Road
3. Everybody Needs Love
4. Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me
5. It Should Have Been Me
6. I Wish It Would Rain
7. Every Little Bit Hurts
8. Didn't You Know (You'd Have To Cry Sometime)
9. Just Walk In My Shoes
10. The Nitty Gritty
11. Friendship Train
12. You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You?)
13. If I Were Your Woman
14. I Don't Want To Do Wrong
15. Here I Am Again
16. Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To
17. Help Me Make It Through The Night
18. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say...
19. Daddy Could Swear, I Declare
20. All I Need Is Time
21. Between Her Goodbye And My Hello
22. It's Time To Go Now

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65353 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
This Motown release covers only this seminal R&B act's recordings for the company's Soul subsidiary well; don't look here for, say, the Buddah-label "Midnight Train to Georgia." But all is not lost on this supposed "ultimate collection." Especially when you get Gladys--easily one of the most underrated soul singers--and her Pips tearing through their church-drenched 1967 version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" or ripping into the peace and love anthem "Friendship Train" or the rousing, finger-wagging "It Should Have Been Me" (one of the greatest you're-gonna-miss-somebody songs of the soul era). With the Pips' seamless harmonies and Gladys's wide-open, no-nonsense vocals, these 22 songs are a great introduction to one of the most beloved R&B/pop groups of the '60s and '70s and well worth owning--even if it only tells half of the story. --Amy Linden