I Don't Want to Do Wrong

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"I Don't Want to Do Wrong"
I Don't Want to Do Wrong - Gladys Knight & the Pips.jpg
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
from the album If I Were Your Woman
B-side "Is There a Place (In His Heart for Me)"
ReleasedMay 6, 1971[ citation needed ]
RecordedMarch 1970
Genre
Length3:15
Label Soul (S 35083)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Johnny Bristol
Gladys Knight & the Pips singles chronology
"If I Were Your Woman"
(1970)
"I Don't Want to Do Wrong"
(1971)
"Make Me the Woman That You Go Home To"
(1971)

"I Don't Want to Do Wrong" is a song recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. It was released in May 1971 from the album If I Were Your Woman.

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The song reached number two on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart. On the pop charts, it peaked at No. 17 on Billboard and No. 9 on Cash Box. [1] [2] It was a more modest hit in Canada.

Chart history

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 54.
  2. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 31, 1971
  3. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 31, 1971
  4. "1971: The Top 100 Soul/R&B Singles - RYM/Sonemic".