Bourgie Bourgie

Recorded in 1980 for the album About Love after Gladys Knight & the Pips reunited with longtime collaborators Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson following their move to Columbia Records. Ashford and Simpson wrote and produced the track, which was a cover of their own composition. Released as a single from About Love, the song brought the group into the contemporary dance and club market of the early 1980s. It became a charting hit in both the UK and on the US R&B chart during the group's successful Columbia era. The recording remains one of the best-known interpretations of Ashford & Simpson's song and is regularly featured in retrospectives of post-disco and dance-soul music. It is also remembered as part of the group's late-career revival with Ashford and Simpson.