Gladys Knight: In The Beginning
Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, February 1975
GLADYS KNIGHT'S rather sudden acceptance as America's reigning songstress not only caught many by surprise, it also created for her an audience that in all likelihood has little idea where she came from or what she did before Midnight Train to Georgia.
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