“You Need Love Like I Do (Don’t You)” #25 5/2/1970

A Top 5 soul smash from Gladys Knight and the Pips. Gladys started out at the age of 7 appearing on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour, a prehistoric prototype of “America’s Got Talent.” She and several family members began winning talent shows in the Atlanta area. They based their name on a cousin, James “Pip” Woods.