I've Got to Use My Imagination

"I've Got to Use My Imagination" is a song recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Released from the hit album, Imagination, which was their debut album with Buddah Records, the song was a success on the soul and pop charts. It spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1974 and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100,^[1] becoming one of their highest charting songs. It eventually sold over one million copies.

On the series A Different World, Whitley, Jaleesa and another classmate perform the song to audition to sing backup for Gladys Knight (who made a special guest appearance on the show).

The song has been covered by such artists as Joan Osborne, Professor RJ Ross, Bobby Bland, Joe Cocker, The Rides and Latrice Royale.

Chart positions

Charts	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles	1

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 330.

External links

Song Review on Allmusic

Preceded by "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" by Aretha Franklin	Billboard Hot Soul Singles number-one single January 19, 1974	Succeeded by "Livin' for You" by Al Green

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Gladys Knight & the Pips

Gladys Knight Merald "Bubba" Knight William Guest Edward Patten Brenda Knight Eleanor Guest Langston George Chris Morante

Studio albums	Everybody Needs Love Neither One of Us Imagination I Feel a Song 2nd Anniversary The One and Only

Soundtrack albums	Claudine

Compilation albums	The Ultimate Collection

Singles	"Every Beat of My Heart" "Giving Up" "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" "Everybody Needs Love" "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "The End of Our Road" "It Should Have Been Me" "I Wish It Would Rain" "The Nitty Gritty" "If I Were Your Woman" "Help Me Make It Through the Night" "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" "The Look of Love" "Midnight Train to Georgia" "I've Got to Use My Imagination" "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)" "The Way We Were/Try to Remember" "Save the Overtime (For Me)" "Hero" "Love Overboard" "Baby, Don't Change Your Mind"

Related topics	Discography Aaliyah Barry Hankerson

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