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1944年アトランタに生まれたグラディス・ナイトをリード・ヴォーカルとして、ピップスは同地で52年に結成。
兄弟のメラルド&ブレンダ・ナイト、いとこのウィリアム&エレノアがバック・ヴォーカルを担当。
58年にブランズウィツクで初録音。
59年フレンダとエレノアに代わり、エドワード・パッテンとラングストン・ジョージが参加。61年にヴィー・ジェイから発売した“Every Beat Of My Heart”がR&B 1位となり注目を集める。
62年にラングストンが抜け現在の4人のラインナップが成立。
66年にソウル（モータウン系列レーベル）と契約。そこから発表した“Everybody Needs Love”（67年R&B 3位）、“I Heard It Through The Grapevine”（67年R&B 1位）で人気を決定づける。
後者はマーヴィン・ゲイの代表曲としても有名。
70年に発表された“If I Were Your Woman”（R&B 1位）でのエモーショナルな歌声で他のモータウン歌手との違いを見せつけ、73年発表されたのが左記作品。
モータウン時代のピップスは、ダイアナロスを売ろうとする会社に冷遇されていたとも言われている。
同年ブッダへ移籍。
そこからの“Midnight Train To Georgia”や“I Feel A Song”もモータウン晩期を継承するサウンドといえる。
79年にコロンビアヘ、86年にはMCAへと移籍するが力の衰えはない。
89年からグラディスがソロ活動を始めたことで、グループは休止状態にある。
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Smashed Gladys were an eighties glam metal band known for their raw sound and outrageous stage shows coupled with lead singer Sally's raspy voice, and consisted of Sally Cato on vocals, Bart Lewis, J.D. Malo on bass and Matt Stelluto on drums. They formed in New York City's Lower East Side in 1981. where they were based.
They added a second guitarist in 1984. In all they had three different rhythm guitar players.
Marcel LaFleur- 1984-1986
Tommy Wah- 1986
Roger Lane- 1986-1987
Backing vocals for their song "Cast of Nasties" was Ozzy Osbourne.
1986-Their first self titled album recorded in...
There are two different bands called Gladys.
1) Gladys is the members of Uncus, minus the bassist. The band was from Seattle. They are no longer together.
2) Gladys is also a project based in the UK:
Patrice Faure taught himself to play the guitar and piano when he was 15 and he's been on stage ever since. He loves performing in front of a crowd and has played in many different bands with one common inspiration... rock music.
In 1985 The Outsiders were born, they were quite successful and toured all over France. The band split in 1992 into...
Gladys Bentley (12 August 1907-18 January 1960) was a famous butch lesbian African-American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance.
Bentley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of American George L. Bentley and his wife, a Trinidadian, Mary Mote. She appeared at Harry Hansberry's "Clam House" on 133rd Street, one of New York City's most notorious gay speakeasies, in the 1920s, and headlined in the early thirties at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She was a 250 pound bulldyke dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tuxedo and top hat),...
Gladys la Bomba Tucumana (born Gladys Nellys Jimenez, April 10, 1965 in San Miguel de Tucumán) is a popular cumbia and bailanta singer from Argentina, best known for her 1989 hit single, "La Pollera Amarilla", a 'Movida Tropical' classic. The album of the same name sold more than a million copies in Argentina, and propelled her career in the rest of Latin America. .
