Other notable songs they released on Maxx include '(There Will Never Be) Another Love', 'Either Way I Lose', 'Go Away, Stay Away', 'Maybe Maybe Baby', 'Stop and Get a Hold of Myself', 'Who Knows' and 'If I Should Ever Fall in Love'. In 1964, she returned to the group, and they signed with Larry Maxwell's Maxx label, releasing several modest hits produced by Van McCoy, including 'Lovers Always Forgive' and the original version of 'Giving Up'. That same year, Knight left the group to start a family with musician and husband Jimmy Newman. After a string of single releases on Fury Records, Langston George left the group in 1962. Later in 1961, the quintet released the single 'Letter Full of Tears', which became another top-40 hit in early 1962. Prior to the re-release on Fury Records, the group changed their name to Gladys Knight & the Pips. Both versions made the Billboard charts, with the Huntom/Vee-Jay version reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Upon learning that 'Every Beat of My Heart' was already becoming a hit and cutting the group out of profits, Robinson had the group re-record the song and re-release it on Fury Records. During this time, the group moved to New York, where they auditioned for Bobby Robinson's Fury Records. Because the group was without a record label, a local Atlanta label, Huntom Records, pushed the single and got a distribution deal with Vee-Jay Records to release the single. In 1961, they recorded the Johnny Otis–penned 'Every Beat of My Heart'. They were replaced by another cousin, Edward Patten, and a friend, Langston George. By 1959, Brunswick dropped the group, and both Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest left the group to begin families. Despite this, the group was now opening for top recording acts such as Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke. At Brunswick, the group released two recordings that failed to chart. This success allowed them to get a record contract with Brunswick Records in 1957. By 1955, the group began performing on the talent show circuit in their hometown of Atlanta, winning each talent show they entered. They settled on the name The Pips, inspired by the nickname of their cousin James 'Pip' Woods. Shortly, the quintet agreed to form a group under the insistence of Gladys' mother Elizabeth Knight. That same year, Gladys, her brother Bubba, sister Brenda, and their cousins Eleanor and William Guest began performing together during Bubba's tenth birthday party after a record player malfunctioned. She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of eight in 1952. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, she would sing in the church choir. She has an older sister, Brenda, one living brother, Merald 'Bubba' Jr. Knight was born in Atlanta and is the daughter of Merald Woodlow Knight Sr., a postal worker, and Sarah Elizabeth (née Woods).

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Rolling Stone magazine ranked Knight among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

She also recorded the theme song for the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. Two of her songs ('I Heard It Through the Grapevine' and 'Midnight Train to Georgia') were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for 'historical, artistic and significant' value. She has won seven Grammy Awards (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips) and is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal Group Hall of Fame along with The Pips. Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles ('Midnight Train to Georgia' and 'That's What Friends Are For' which she did with Dionne Warwick, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder), eleven number-one R&B singles and six number-one R&B albums. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight is known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group The Pips, which also included her brother Merald 'Bubba' Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten. Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the 'Empress of Soul', is an American singer, actress and businesswoman.

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