"If I Were Your Woman" is a song recorded by American family group
Gladys Knight & the Pips. Written by Pam Sawyer, Clay McMurray, and
Gloria Jones, it was released as a single in November 1970. It spent
one week at #1 on Billboard Magazine's Soul Singles chart in January
1971 and was also successful on their Hot 100 singles chart, peaking
at number 9. It would subsequently be included as the opening track
on their 1971 album of the same name.
If I Were Your Woman is the seventh studio album by American R&B
quartet Gladys Knight & the Pips, released in 1971 on Soul Records.
The LP peaked at #4 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart and #35
on the US Billboard 200.
Gladys Knight & the Pips were an American R&B, soul, and funk family
music group from Atlanta, Georgia, that remained active on the music
charts and performing circuit for over three decades starting from the
early 1950s. Starting out as simply The Pips in 1952, derived from
a cousin's nickname, the founding members were Gladys Knight,
brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, sister Brenda Knight and cousins
Eleanor Guest and William Guest. The group reached commercial
success after signing with Motown Records in 1966.
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