Gladys Knight & The Pips

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Formed 1953. Disbanded 1989.

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Gladys Knight and The Pips - Friendship Train

Gladys Knight and The Pips perform Friendship Train, taken from the BBC Arena documentary of 1985, The Apollo Story (Part Two).

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Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967) and "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973). The longest-lived incarnation of the act featured Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with The Pips, who included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers.

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