Posted on 05/30/2021 5:58:50 PM PDT by simpson96
"You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" — is a song written by Jim Weatherly, and produced by Don Law. It was first recorded in 1973 by Ray Price from his album You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me. The song enjoyed two runs of popularity, each by an artist in a different genre.
Weatherly told Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits that he wrote the song in 1971 and let his father-in-law first record it as a Christmas present for the latter's wife. "I thought it was really strange that nobody'd written a song with that title — possibly somebody had, but I'd never heard it — so I just sat down and let this stream of consciousness happen. I basically wrote it in a very short period of time, probably 30 minutes or an hour."
In 1974, Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded several of Weatherly's songs, and in 1974, they dipped into his catalog once again with their rendition of the song. Their version, titled "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 that spring and was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of one million copies.
"You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" - Gladys Knight & The Pips (1974, Live)
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
I always heard it was written for Danny Thomas.
Great time for music.
It’s funny how these things always say “From the album” But in those days the single hit came first, album by the same title maybe later.
For some people
Back when there was creativity and excellence in music & lyrics...
Almost at the end of a 40-year (1934-1974) trend of excellent music...
Who could have imagined that 20-years later (circa 1994) most newer music would best be described as the sound of a wayward spoon that fell into the garbage disposal...
This is one of their better tunes. Having listened to the link you provided and the iTunes version I demur in adding to library. Maybe later. Thanks for posting!
Not only music but the movies as well. The 1970s were unbelievable, I remember listening to 99X WXLO here in New York and every song was always great, I use to tape them on a reel to reel then to top it off every month it seemed another classic movie was coming out. Godfather, Jaws, Rocky, Alien, Cuckoos nest, Taxi driver, Papillon, Josey Wales, Dog day afternoon, The Sting, Blazing saddles, Young Frankenstein, Marathon man. Now we get Superhero movies in between Superhero movies and lip syncing karaoke performers with gay male dancers for “music”.
I always wanted to be a Pip. They looked so cool and seemed to be having so much fun.
And I could listen to Gladys Knight and the Pips every day.
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