Gladys Knight and the Pips

Vocals: Brown, James

Vocals: Butler, Jerry

Vocals: Davis, Mary Bond

Vocals: Davis, Tyrone

Vocals: King, Ben E.

Vocals: Nightingale, Maxine

Vocals: Payne, Freda

Vocals: Sledge, Percy

Vocals: Thomas, Carla

Vocals: Thomas, Rufus

America's Music Legacy: Soul

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Catalogue Number: QLDVD7182

UPC: 760137718291

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Today America's music does what it has always done, bring people together. In American music every aspect of life, ethnicity, and culture is merged, mixed, and highlighted. The rich diversity of American culture and life is reflected in its lively beat-filled rhythms. American music is the story of the country, a reflection of a nation alive with change, filled with curiosity and led by hope and excitement.

America's music legacy, be it Blues, Jazz, Country, Rock, R&B or Folk are the songs and artists who have a special power to express what words alone cannot: hopes, fears, dreams, love, hate, anger, pride, aspirations and disappointments. Because songs span the breadth of human experience, they are uniquely able to communicate across time and space the beliefs and ideas held by their composers, performers and listeners.

Soul is music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.

America's Music Legacy showcase the musical legends performing the songs that continue to attract and entice the whole world, because they truly are the best of all that is America.