Gladys Knight & the Pips top ten singles, "I've Got to Use My Imagination" and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me". The release of "Imagination" sparked a consecutive series of million-selling gold-certified albums for the label including the soundtrack to the movie, "Claudine"; "I Feel a Song" and "2nd Anniversary". In 1975, the group scored a mid-season variety series, "The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show", that aired for four episodes on NBC. During this time, the group recorded more hit singles, including "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)", "Part-Time Love", "Love Finds Its Own Way" and the live recording, "The Way We
Sons of the Vegetal Mother and Ross Hannaford (both ex The Pink Finks, The Party Machine) and singer-drummer Gary Young and bassist Wayne Duncan, who had both been members of veteran Melbourne band The Rondells, who are best known as the backing group for pioneering beat duo Bobby & Laurie. In early 1969, Wilson had been invited to go to the UK and join "progressive pop" band Procession. That band (which had evolved from Normie Rowe's backing group The Playboys) had relocated to Britain in 1968 but their career had stalled and they were trying to revitalise the group and find a new direction, to