2nd Anniversary

Track Listings

1. Money

2. Street Brother

3. Part Time Love

4. At Every End There's a Beginning

5. Georgia on My Mind

6. You and Me Against the World

7. Where Do I Put His Memory

8. Summer Sun

9. Feel Like Makin' Love

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Features "Street Life" in Half French/Half English.

2nd Anniversary,Gladys Knight & the Pips,Kama Sutra / Buddah,Pop,R&B,Soul

2nd Anniversary

Tracks:

June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Beg.)
June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (End)
June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
June 12,1933: Improvisation On A Passage In Study No. 23, Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 2, And Emerson Overture's Cadenza No. 4 (With False Start)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (Beg.)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (End)
Mid 1930s: Study No. 11 (Abandoned)
Mid 1930s: Study No. 11
Mid 1930s: Study No. 11
Mid 1930s: Patch For Study No. 23
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (Beg.)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (End)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (Beg.)
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (End)
May 11,1938: Study No. 11
May 11,1938: Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots
May 11,1938: Study No. 2 with false start
May 11,1938: Study No. 2 (Beg.)
May 11,1938: Study No. 2 (End)
May 11,1938: Study No. 23 (Partial)
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Abandoned)
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Middle)
May 11,1938: Study No. 23 (Partial)
May 11,1938: Three Improvisations, No. 1
May 11,1938: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Hawthorne' (Excerpt)
May 11,1938: Symphony No. 1 - Rejected Mvt. 2 (Largo)
May 11,1938: Unidentified (Improvisation On The 'Sunrise' Cadenza'?)
May 11,1938: Study No. 20 (Partial)
May 11,1938: Three Improvisations, No.3
April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
April 24, 1943: Study No. 2 + Study No. 23 (Mixed)
April 24, 1943: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (Abandoned)
April 24, 1943: Study No.9: The Anti-Abolishonist Riots
April 24, 1943: They Are There!, First Take (Abandoned)
April 24, 1943: They Are There!, Second Take
1943/04/24 They Are There!, Third Take
April 24, 1943: March No. 6 For Piano With 'Here's To Good Old Yale'
April 24, 1943: Sonata No.2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., 'The Alcotts'

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In his lifetime, maverick composer Charles Ives entered the recording studio only four times, mostly to hear (and tinker with) his works in progress. He ended up doing 42 takes of 17 different pieces on the piano, all recorded between 1933 and 1943: everything from snippets of the unfinished Emerson Concerto to his rousing wartime anthem "They Are There!" It's a varied lot, to say the least, but now we have his complete recordings on one CD. The sound quality isn't great and you can easily hear how frustrated Ives is by the newfangled technology (recording techniques restricted his playing to five minute chunks). That said, you couldn't ask for a greater insight into the composer.

Most of these pieces derive from Ives's unfinished Emerson concerto for piano and orchestra, but the entire package is one big treasure chest. Here we have the composer at work: improvising, (occasionally) frustrated, frenzied, and--most of all--creative. His playing is as off-the-wall as you can imagine: fast, improvised, with failed notes galore, and occasionally spot-on. Highlights abound--just check out "The Alcotts" from the Concord Sonata (No. 2) to hear him at his performance peak--but the most memorable cuts feature Ives himself singing. His three versions of the wartime anthem "We Are There!" should give hope to any struggling vocalist... for a career either selling insurance or composing great music. Yes, his voice is simply awful, but the music and history contained on this disc are breathtaking. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

Interesting, historically important CD.......2005-08-16

To hear Ives play his own works is a real treasure. Of course, the recording quality is spotty at best, and the tracks recorded on the Speak-O-Phone are sometimes almost unbearable to hear.

But other tracks have excellent sound and you can catch Ives at his creative and offbeat best.

Those willing to bear with the sound limitations will be well rewarded when they hear the final track 42, which is particularly beautiful and because it comes indirectly from a tape transfer has better sound quality.

man and machine.......2002-04-09

This is a fantastic peek at the complexities of the recording art.. Charlie was lucky to have access to recording technology, and yet it was quite frustrating for him.

Easy to forget the 'miracle.' John Kirkpatrick once told me that his recording of the Concord required something like 43 different 'takes' (if you will); I guess I had assumed it was just one run through.

I'm grateful for all the 'Emerson' here. It is my favorite part of Concord. I heard some of these recordings back in '73, and they really have been lovingly upgraded. Thank you for making these available to us.

Ives speaks for himself, better late than never........2001-12-07

Shades of Cecil Taylor! This collection flies in the face of attempts to create "definitive" performance scores for Ives' compositions. The composer who imagined a world without symphony orchestras, where one simply thought-created the music while contemplating nature, can hardly be tied down to an engraving of notes. It wasn't only the skill to perform his compositions that Ives demanded of musicians, but the spirit to enter into them - a conceptual understanding & a will to get at them from the inside out.

I still believe Charlie was willfully naive & had a neurotic fear of success. While he looked over his shoulder at the "Rollos" of American music, as if they mattered, he missed out on the emergence of the very generation of composers & artists who were his exact, or nearly exact, contemporaries. There was no Armory Show in Ives' world; no Alfred Stieglitz; no Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams; no Arensberg salon. He worked himself half to death & shamelessly let younger men do the heavy lifting of his reputation. This recording shows how revelatory Ives might have been to Europeans, had he gone to bat "over there" for his own art when he was both healthy & wealthy. Ives took a great gamble with his art. Thank heavens it paid off.

Recordings of a Twentieth Century Master.......2001-11-06

The preceeding descriptions of the music are good. I just wanted to add this: The playing and singing of '...They are there!' that Ives demonstrates towwards the end of the disc is some really musicially sensitive stuff. It is what Charles Ives is all about; no 'rollo,' no inhibitions, just playing and expression without self consciousness. I would very strongly recommend this recording to anyone who improvises and anyone who composes; you really should hear this. However, for anyone, hearing genius at the piano is good fun and very interesting...

Precious moments with America's greatest composer........2000-05-12

The millenium's over, the ballots are in, and the winner of the Most Important Twentieth Century American Composer title is--still--Charles Ives. Ives was a great composer with his own voice, a lofty vision, and sense of humor besides. He was also a nationalist, but in the best way, overtly embracing the music which meant the most to his countrymen--hymns, popular tunes, the mainline classics--and adapting it for his own use.
Ives' music is likely among the most complicated ever put on a page, and generations of musicians have wondered if they had broken Ives' code and were playing it the way he wanted it. Wonder no more! This CD presents rare examples of Ives playing his own stuff. The good news is that performers pretty much had it right. The bad news is that the music here is strictly for the Ives fanatic. Don't start your Ives recording collection here. Even with the most ingenious digital enhancement, the sound quality is generally poor and way too much time is spent on those damnable Emerson studies and other recondite repertoire. But the performances of "They are there," are a lot of fun, and the reading of "The Alcotts" is revelatory. So is that enough to make the CD worth getting? Darned right!!

Mozart: Symphonies (8 CD-250th Anniversary Edition)

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Harnoncourt brings a little gitty up to Mozart!

Mozart: Symphonies (8 CD-250th Anniversary Edition)

Manufacturer: Warner Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Mozart: Early Symphonies, Vol. 2
Mozart: Early Symphonies
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Schubert: The String Quartets

ASIN: B000AOVKH8
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

I. Allegro - Ton Koopman
II. Andante - Ton Koopman
III. Allegro - Ton Koopman
I. Allegro - Ton Koopman
II. Andantino Grazioso - Ton Koopman
III. Menuetto - Ton Koopman
IV. Molto Allegro - Ton Koopman
I. Allegro - Ton Koopman
II. Andante - Ton Koopman
III. Menuetto - Trio - Ton Koopman
IV. Allegro (Rondeau) - Ton Koopman
V. Andantino Grazioso - Ton Koopman
I. Allegro Assai - Ton Koopman
II. Andantino Grazioso - Ton Koopman
III. Presto Assai - Ton Koopman

Tracks:

I. Allegro - Ton Koopman
II. Andante - Ton Koopman
III. Menuetto & Trio - Ton Koopman
IV. Allegro - Ton Koopman
I. Allegro Spiritoso - Ton Koopman
II. Andantino Grazioso - Ton Koopman
III. Presto Assai - Ton Koopman
I. Allegro Spiritoso - Ton Koopman
II. Andantino GRazioso - Ton Koopman
III. Allegro - Ton Koopman
I. Allegro - Ton Koopman
II. Andantino GRazioso - Ton Koopman
III. Presto - Ton Koopman

Tracks:

No.1 In D Major - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
No.2 In A Major - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
No.3 In C Major - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
No.4 In G Major - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
No.5 In B Flat Major - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
No.6 In D Major - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ouverture: Allegro - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
I. Largo - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
II. Gavotte - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
III. Andantino & IV. Allegro - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
V. Larghetto - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Vi. Gavotte Joyeuse: Allegro - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
VII. Adagio - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
VIII. Senza Indicazione Di Tempo - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
IX. Gavotte Gracieuse - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
X. Pantomime - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
XI. Passepied - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
XII. Andante - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
XIII. Gavotte - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
I. Allegro Con Brio
II. Andante
III. Menuetto
IV. Allegro
I. Molto Presto
II. Andantino Grazioso
III. Allegro

Tracks:

I. Allegro Spiritoso
II. Andante
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Presto
I. Allegro Moderato
II. Andante
III. Menuetto
IV. Allegro Con Spirito
I. Molto Allegro
II. Andantino Con Moto
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto

Tracks:

I. Allegro Assai
II. Andante
III. Allegro
II. Andante
I. Allegro Assai
II. Andante Moderato
III. Menuetto
IV. Allegro Assai
I. Allegro Vivace
II. Andante Di Molto, Piu Tosto Allegretto
III. Allegro

Tracks:

I. Allegro Spiritoso
II. Andante
III. Primo Tempo
I. Allegro Con Spirito
II. Andante
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto
I. Adagio - Allegro Spiritoso
II. Andante
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto

Tracks:

I. Adagio - Allegro
II. Andante
III. Presto
I. Adagio - Allegro
II. Andante Con Moto
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Finale: Allegro

Tracks:

I. Molto Allegro
II. Andante
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Allegro Assai
I. Allegro Vivace
II. Andante Cantabile
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Molto Allegro

Customer Reviews:

Harnoncourt brings a little gitty up to Mozart!.......2006-11-21

After acquiring Harnoncourt's 2 vols (4 cds) of Mozart's early symphonies, I noticed this collection. This is not quite a complete Mozart symphony cycle. It is lacking some of the early Symphonies. Harnoncourt's contribution to this collection is found on the last 5 and a half cds and covers Mozart's middle and later symphonies. So, by combining the early with the later I get an almost complete Mozart Symphony cycle conducted by Harnoncourt. There are a few of the middle symphonies that are not touched by Harnoncourt's early volumes or this present set. I found them on vinyl at Ebay or here at Amazon marketplace for outrageous sums of money (more than this present set!). It looks like what I have will have to do.

When I think of Beethoven, I think of his 9th symphony and when it was performed, he could not hear a single note because he was deaf! When I think of Mozart, I am picturing an 8 year old who caused his dad to retire early from music composition! Harnoncourt writes that as an 8 year old, Mozart was already head and shoulders above just about any composer on the continent of Europe. Mozart's 40th and especially his 41st symphonies are true epiphanies. Yet the sound heard in these is the same as that by 8 year old Mozart! Mozart did not start composing and then 20 years later develop his voice. I love Mozart's music for the beauty, the balance and the mathematical precision. I love Beethoven's for the power and the thunder. Yet, who can top the beauty of the softer movements in his symphonies such as the 3rd in his 9th?

My standard for Mozart's symphonies (his last seven) and Beethoven's Nine are found on vinyl conducted by Bohm. I bought the DG Bohm recordings on vinyl back in the 70s and was so pleased with both the recording quality and the superb playing I did not have any other renditions (except Karajan) until recently.

There is a complete Mozart Symphony DG collection by Bohm that has been ported over to digital. But I was a little curious what a fresh, digital recording would sound like, how it would stack up to Bohm. I was also curious to compare the smaller orchestra with period instruments to the full orchestra with modern instruments used by Bohm. I also bought the complete Pinnock Mozart cycle recorded with a smaller orchestra than Bohm's and period instruments. Of the two, Pinnock sounds more like Bohm than Harnoncourt.

The period instruments/smaller orchestras have a little more harpsicord and not as full an orchestra sound. If its too much harpsicord, I end up pinching myself to make sure I did not accidentally play Vivaldi or Teleman. The less than full sound is more chamber orchestra style than full orchestra. I can hear more of the individual instruments and their resonating than the blended sound of the fuller orchestra. Pinnock supposedly used 20 to 30 players. But while Bohm may have had a "full" orchestra, it certainly is not full in the Wagner sense of full. I have been to concerts that featured both Mozart and later Romantic composers. The Orchestra pit seemed a little less than half full when its Mozart and bursting at the sides when its Wagner or Mahler. I enjoy the "full" orchstra sound and I really like the smaller chamber type sound. I do not live in an "either/or" universe. Buy both! No classical music Nazi can tell you otherwise. Its all about Freedom, baby!

I am still digesting Harnoncourt's rendition of Mozart's last 6 symphonies. The tempos and the overall playing sounds much different than Bohm or Pinnock. The tempos seem to not be as consistently precise and they seem to shift, that is why I my title says "Mozart with a little gitty up." That being said, I enjoyed both Pinnock and Harnoncourt. I do not regret for a moment shelling out close to $50 for this set!

Bohm's analog records sound good. These didgital recordings sound really GOOD! PURE, maybe even a little too sanitized. The period instrument movenent is trying to approximate the 1700s sound with Mozart, yet you will never hear a cough or any other sound other than the instruments producing music. This includes the bow sounds when the bow comes on or off the instrument. These Bass bowing sounds are left on Karjan's DVD Beethoven Symphony Cycle. To really approximate the 1700s, we need a group of 2nd rate musicians playing on third or fourth rate instruments in concert halls with less than idealic acoustics. If we are going to get real, lets really get real. I bet Mozart would have walked a half mile barefoot over shards of broken glass to have his music played by orchestras such as the BPO or the Vienna Phil conducted by Bohm. And I will bet dollars to donuts any day that any of our smaller city orchestras such as Pasadena CA or Omaha Nebraska would blow the socks off of just about all of the top orchestras of Mozart's day. Maybe the period instrumenters should break out the old analog recording equipment like the Musical Heritage Society from 30 years ago and press their recordings on 78s or 10 inch LPs. So, while they may be using instruments similar to those used in the 1700s, we are still getting a very professional modern sound and recording. Don't kid yourself that if you buy Pinnock or Harnoncourt Mozart Symphony recordings, when you listen, you will be suddenly teleported as a classical music Yankee back to King Arthur's Court.

I converted Pinnock and this present 250th anniversary edition set to CD-R mp3s at 192 kps. 90 to 100 kps is supposedly FM radio quality and anything above 170 kps only your dog will enjoy. 192kps will yield a little over 8 hours of music on a 702 mb CD-R. I can play a cd at work and let it run all day long filling my life with the world's greatest music.

I still am still debating the period instrument movement. Yet, the music is still MOZART! MOZART! Bohm (died circa 1981), Harnoncourt, and Pinnock are superb conductors and their musicians are top notch. None of these conductors nor their orchestras screw up Mozart! You may disagree, yet let me point out that these gents and their orchestras have filled concert halls for decades and have very loyal followings of musically satiated listeners. Believe it or not, sometimes 10,000 Frenchmen are not wrong.

You may or may not like Mozart with a little "gitty up" but you surely will not get typhoid fever from listening! Chill out, it is still Mozart! Old Wolfgang himself were he alive would be sitting front row, center aisile with a big bag of chips and a cold Tecate having the time of his life listening to Harnoncourt and his Orchestra.

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2nd Anniversary/Pipe Dreams
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Manufacturer: Sequel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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2nd Best Seat in the House: 25th Anniversary Lighve

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2nd Best Seat in the House: 25th Anniversary Lighve
Goddo
Manufacturer: Bullseye Canada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005RVRY
Release Date: 2001-11-05

Tracks:

Intro: Ronnie Hawkins Anacanapanacana - Goddo
So Walk On - Goddo
Work It Out - Goddo
Bus Driver Blues - Goddo
Quicksand - Goddo
Pretty Bad Boys - Goddo,
King of Broken Hearts - Goddo
Sweet Thing - Goddo
Little Red Rooster - Jerome Godboo, Goddo, Mike Pellarin
Feelin' Strange Today - Andy Curran, Goddo
There Goes My Baby - Andy Curran, Goddo
Chantal - Goddo,
Tough Times - Goddo,
Cock On - Goddo,
Oh Carole (Kiss My Whip) - Goddo,
Too Much Carousin' - Goddo,
12 Days - Goddo,

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great showcase of blues traveller!
WHERE ARE THE FOO FIGHTERS???

Launch : 2nd Anniversary Issue
Interactive CD-Rom , Foo Fighters , and Chemical Brothers
Manufacturer: Launch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0000039S2
Release Date: 1997-06-03

Customer Reviews:

great showcase of blues traveller!.......2001-07-17

yah there was not much foo fighters, and if the intention is to have foo fighters, then yah, this is poor... but as a Cd, it is a really good cd... only mislabeled...

WHERE ARE THE FOO FIGHTERS???.......1999-08-22

This CD is put together well, but all it has on it is Blues Traveler! NO FOO FIGHTERS ARE ON THIS CD!!! I Was so heart-broken. If you like the foo fighters, DONT BUY THIS CD!! If you like Blues traveler, hey, what the heck, buy it!

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2nd Anniversary
Jam-9
Manufacturer: 3d
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007INYN0
Release Date: 2005-03-28

A Celebration of Ennio Morricone's 75th Anniversary

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A Celebration of Ennio Morricone's 75th Anniversary

Manufacturer: Wea International
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Once Upon a Time in America

ASIN: B0001ENWZU
Release Date: 2004-02-09

Tracks:

Once Upon a Time in the West [Il ait une Fois dans l'Quest]
Mission (Gabriel's Theme)
One Upon a Time in America ... [Il ait une Fois en Amque]
Erediterramonti
Metti, Una Sera a Cena (2nd Theme) [Call It Dinner One Evening]
Maestro E Margherita [The Maestro and Margherita]
Prato [The Meadow]
Lolita
Rampage [Bloody Revenge]
Romanza
MosMoses]
Per le Antiche Scale [Dizzy Heights]
Cinema Paradiso
Deserto Dei Tartari [The DeSert of the Tartars]
Indagine Su un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto [Investigation O]
Gott Mit Uns [At the Dawn of the Fifth Day]

Album Description

Full Title- A Celebration of Ennio Morricone's 75th Anniversary. Asia exclusive compilation features 16 number one tracks from the Maestro's oeuvre. Slipcase. WEA. 2004.

Album Details

Asian exclusive release.

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Grass: 20th Anniversary Edition's 2nd
Motoharu Sano
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005HQ9K
Release Date: 2001-08-13

Tracks:

Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Japanese Title
Mosquito
Japanese Title

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Second Anniversary

2nd Anniversary
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Manufacturer: Kama Sutra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000071EP
Release Date: 1994-02-07

Tracks:

Money
Street Brother
Part Time Love
At Every End There's a Beginning
Georgia on My Mind
You and Me Against the World
Where Do I Put His Memory
Summer Sun
Feel Like Makin' Love

Album Details

Features "Street Life" in Half French/Half English.

Customer Reviews:

Second Anniversary.......2001-09-09

Second Anniversary... As a fan of Gladys, for many years, I've never thought to see this release in cd. I have the vinyl album and I'm looking to it now. It brings out, at the back of the cover, words of the president of Buddah Records noticeably proud of having Gladys & The Pips for the second year in his company. Buddah hosted a gala luncheon at "New York's famed '21'Club" to celebrate... "I assured them that they would be totally involved with every creative level of recording, including the selection of material, arrangements and choice of a producer", words of the president. Maybe, because of this, the album got out so very good. This is the album of "Part Time Love" (of David Gates, from Bread), "You and Me Against The World", "Georgia on My Mind, (live)", and, the two that I like most : "At Every End There's A Beginning" and "Where Do I Put His Memory", imppecable performance of Gladys and The Pips for this tune of Jim Weatherly (without doubt, the best composer of all Glady's career!)This is a record for a non-fan of Gladys & The Pips to understand because we are fans!