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1964 single by Gladys Knight & the Pips

"Giving Up"
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
B-side	"Maybe Maybe Baby"
Released	1964 (1964)
Genre	Soul
Length	2:43
Label	Maxx
Songwriter(s)	Van McCoy

"Giving Up" is a popular song written by Van McCoy that was introduced by Gladys Knight & the Pips with an April 1964 single release.

Chart performance

"Giving Up" was a Top 40 Pop hit, reaching No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100. and a Top 10 R&B hit, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. Gladys and her family group The Pips, (her brother Merald (Bubba),and their cousins, Ed Patten, and William Guest, later recorded a newer version of the song after being signed by Motown, which was released on their "Greatest Hits" album and Anthology on Motown's "Soul" subsidiary label several years later.

Other recordings

"Giving Up" has inspired cover versions by many artists:

A 1969 cover of the song by the Ad Libs that peaked at No. 34 on the US R&B chart. Van McCoy produced the track.
Donny Hathaway remade "Giving Up" for his 1971 self-titled album for which it served as lead single reaching No. 21 R&B in the summer of 1972. Hathaway's version crossed over to the pop chart, peaking at No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2000, Aaliyah remade "Giving Up" as an intended audition for the role of Sparkle, a movie which was set to be produced by Whitney Houston and star Aaliyah.
Lonette McKee performs a version of “Giving Up” as troubled nightclub singer ‘Sister’ in Sparkle (1976 film).
Jennifer Holliday recorded “Givin’ Up” which featured on her 1987 album Get Close to My Love and later on the soundtrack to the 2007 Tyler Perry motion picture Why Did I Get Married?

References

"Soul Deep - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
"Artist Search for "the ad libs"". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 November 2017.

v t e Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight Merald "Bubba" Knight William Guest Edward Patten Brenda Knight Eleanor Guest Langston George
Studio albums	Everybody Needs Love Nitty Gritty If I Were Your Woman Neither One of Us All I Need Is Time Imagination I Feel a Song 2nd Anniversary The One and Only Visions All Our Love
Soundtrack albums	Claudine
Compilation albums	The Ultimate Collection
Singles	"Every Beat of My Heart" "Letter Full of Tears" "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" "I Don't Want to Do Wrong" "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" "On and On" "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"
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Studio albums	Everything Is Everything Donny Hathaway Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway Extension of a Man Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway
Live albums	Live These Songs for You, Live!
Soundtrack album	Come Back, Charleston Blue
Singles	"The Ghetto" "This Christmas" "You've Got a Friend" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" "Giving Up" "Where Is the Love" "The Closer I Get to You"
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