Track Listing

1. Baby Don't Change Your Mind
2. Try To Remember/The Way We Were
3. Licence To Kill
4. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
5. Midnight Train To Georgia
6. Help Me Make It Through The Night
7. Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me
8. Come Back And Finish What You Started
9. One And Only
10. So Sad The Song
11. Look Of Love
12. Part Time Love
13. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
14. Bourgie Bourgie
15. Taste Of Bitter Love
16. Make Yours A Happy Home
17. Love Overboard
18. Save The Overtime (For Me)
19. Wind Beneath My Wings

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #548 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-13
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Peerless seventies soul
Before 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 greatest soul voices of all time. They don't seem to produce soul voices like this anymore, which is a great shame. So many of today's "X Factor" contestants seem to be compared to "a young Gladys Knight" by the judges. I'm afraid they couldn't hold a candle to Gladys, young or old.

Rootsy rawness and silky smoothness
Gladys 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 classics of which the best are provided on this album.