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The Greatest Hits by: Gladys Knight List Price: £6.99 CD-Charts Price: £2.98 You Save: £4.01 (57%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0082876738812 Label: Bmg Manufacturer: Bmg Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Bmg Release Date: March 13, 2006 Studio: Bmg Sales Rank: 2259 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Peerless seventies soulBefore Whitney Houston, before affected "R'n'B" singers of contemporary chart fame, there was Gladys Knight, and she sure could sing. As the previous reviewer has pointed out, hers was a sweet, yet ballsy, rootsy soul. Check out cuts such as "Make Yours A Happy Home"; "Come Back And Finish What You Started" and "Bourgie Bourgie" for proof. Of course, the album's highlight is the iconic "Midnight Train To Georgia" with its wonderful horn intro, bass line, keyboards and Gladys' memorable fade-out vocal. There is also the sublime "Help Me Make It Through The Night", "The Way We Were" and my own personal favourite ballad of hers, "So Sad The Song". Add to that the James Bond theme "License To Kill" and you have a great compliation from one of the ... Read More: Rating: - Rootsy rawness and silky smoothnessGladys Knight's voice can go from silky smooth as on Help Me Make It Through The Night, to raw emotion as on Neither One Of Us. The first mentioned has a lovely spoken introduction that adds to the mood of this great Kristofferson song. Midnight Train to Georgia (1974) is another of her deep soul classics while on Try To Remember (The Way We Were) she goes all silky again - this one too, has a great spoken intro. From the disco period come Bourgie Bourgie and Taste Of Bitter Love, dancefloor killers demonstrating her versatility. Other favourites of mine include Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, One And Only, Part Time Love and Come Back and Finish What You Started. Her career spans more than 5 decades of memorable soul ... Read More: |
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