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Everybody Needs Love (album)

Everybody Needs Love
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Studio album by Gladys Knight & the Pips
Released September 1967
Recorded 1966–1967
Studio Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Genre Soul
Length 34:12
Label Soul
SS 706
Producer Norman Whitfield, Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Smokey Robinson
Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology
Everybody Needs Love
(1967)
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(1968)Feelin' Bluesy1968
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Everybody Needs Love is the 1967 debut album by Gladys Knight & the Pips and their first album for Motown Records' Soul imprint. The LP, chiefly produced by Norman Whitfield, features the singles "Just Walk in My Shoes", the 1966 group's Motown debut, "Everybody Needs Love" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".

"Everybody Needs Love", which peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100, was Knight & the Pips first major Motown hit, but "Grapevine", which peaked at number 2, was a major success for the group and Motown. Selling over 2.5 million copies, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became Motown's best-selling single to that point. Its success would be overshadowed by Marvin Gaye's version of the song, which would be issued on Motown's Tamla label a year after Knight & the Pips' recording.


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