{"id":2738,"date":"2010-05-13T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-13T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T09:20:28","slug":"thrifty-music-vol-20-10-is-anybody-better-than-gladys-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-20-10-is-anybody-better-than-gladys-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music, Vol. 20.10: Is Anybody Better Than Gladys Knight?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Didn’t You Know (You’d Have to Cry Sometimes)<\/a>,” Gladys Knight & the Pips<\/p>\n

Greetings, seekers of fine worthless music!<\/p>\n

I come to you today with a new musical offering culled from the junk stores, flea markets, and garbage cans of our nation’s capitol. This time, it’s a fine old single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, entitled “Didn’t You Know (You’d Have to Cry Sometimes).”<\/p>\n

I could go into nerdy detail about exactly why I think this song is so great, but really, all I want to do is fall down on my knees, raise my hands up to heaven, and thank the almighty God for giving us Gladys Knight. Seriously, that woman is\/was the greatest soul music singer ever<\/em>. You can have your Aretha Franklins, your Mavis Staples-es, even your (sentimental favorite) Candi Statons. For my money, Gladys Knight was the best — I can honestly say that she’s the only singer who gives me the chills every time I hear her sing. That voice! At the same time, huge and intimate; joyful and passionate; soft and righteous — just amazing. And “Midnight Train to Georgia”? Forget about it. True, that song may also benefit from one of the all-time greatest lyrics in the soul canon, but when Gladys sings “I’d rather live with him in his world, than live without him in mine”… well, it’s all over.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here’s a tune that may not scale the vast heights reached by “Midnight Train…”, but it’s a good’un for sure. Thanks mainly to Gladys Knight — and, God bless ’em, to a lesser extent, the Pips.<\/p>\n

My question for you all is a simple one: Is anybody better than Gladys Knight?<\/em> (Hint: NO.)<\/p>\n

I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n

HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Didn’t You Know (You’d Have to Cry Sometimes),” Gladys Knight & the Pips Greetings, seekers of fine worthless music! I come to you today with a new musical offering culled from the junk stores, flea markets, and garbage cans of our nation’s capitol. This time, it’s a fine old single by Gladys Knight & the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}