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| Released | 1983 | |||
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| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Label | Columbia [1] | |||
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Visions is an album by the American soul group Gladys Knight & the Pips, released in 1983. [2] [3]
The album peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. [4] "Save the Overtime (For Me)" reached No. 1 on the Hot Black Singles chart. [5]
Half of the album's songs, including "Save the Overtime (For Me)", were produced by the group. [6]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| Robert Christgau | B [8] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [9] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
Robert Christgau wrote: "Accurately acclaimed as her finest work in a decade, this is amazingly uniform for an album featuring eight different bassists and eight different drummers recorded in eight different studios in L.A., Nashville, and Vegas." [8] The Philadelphia Inquirer deemed the album "an uneven but nonetheless bold mixture of styles—sultry ballads, squeaky-clean pop and pumping funk tunes." [2] The Rocket opined that "a couple of the ballads are weak in spots, and the variety of producers tends to give the album an incoherent feel." [10]
The Washington Informer thought that "'Oh La De Da'—a brassy, fun-filled, funky celebration of the boogie—is a refreshing departure from the ups and downs of luv." [11] Stereo Review opined that Knight "is buried in a mire of unimaginative and downright boring arrangements." [12]
AllMusic called "Save the Overtime (For Me)" "the kind of jubilant, celebratory, rousing performance that had marked their best Motown singles, and it put some fresh life into what had become a stagnant group." [7]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "When You're Far Away" | James Harris III, Terry Lewis | 5:50 |
| 2. | "Just Be My Lover" | Joey Gallo, Dana Meyers, William Shelby | 3:29 |
| 3. | "Save the Overtime (For Me)" | Sam Dees, Joey Gallo, Bubba Knight, Gladys Knight, Rickey Smith | 4:42 |
| 4. | "Heaven Sent" | Sam Dees | 4:11 |
| 5. | "Don't Make Me Run Away" | Michael Lovesmith | 3:47 |
| 6. | "Ain't No Greater Love" | Gene Dozier, Richard Randolph, William Shelby, Rickey Smith | 4:53 |
| 7. | "Seconds" | Sam Dees, Ron Kersey | 4:36 |
| 8. | "You're Number One (In My Book)" | Dana Meyers, Wilmer Raglin, Leon Sylvers III, William Zimmerman | 5:12 |
| 9. | "Oh La De Da" | Sam Dees, Bubba Knight | 3:35 |
| 10. | "Hero" | Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar | 3:44 |
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