Giving Up

{{Distinguish|Give Up}} {{Other uses}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox song | name = Giving Up | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]] | album = | B-side = Maybe Maybe Baby | released = {{Start date|1964}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = [[Soul music|Soul]] | length = 2:43 | label = Maxx | writer = [[Van McCoy]] | producer = }}

"'''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|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/soul-deep-mw0000191906|title=Soul Deep - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic|website=AllMusic|accessdate=23 November 2017}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=AllMusic no longer has chart info|date=June 2021}} 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her family group The Pips, (her brother Merald (Bubba), and their cousins, Ed Patten, and William Guest, later recorded a newer version of the song after being signed by Motown, which was released on their "Greatest Hits" album and Anthology on Motown's "Soul" subsidiary label several years later.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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/the+ad+libs|title=Artist Search for "the ad libs"|website=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=23 November 2017}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=AllMusic no longer has chart info|date=June 2021}} Van McCoy produced the track. *[[Donny Hathaway]] remade "Giving Up" for his 1971 [[Donny Hathaway (album)|self-titled album]] for which it served as lead single reaching No. 21 R&B in the summer of 1972.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}} Hathaway's version [[Crossover (music)|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== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:1964 songs]] [[Category:1964 singles]] [[Category:1969 singles]] [[Category:Gladys Knight & the Pips songs]] [[Category:Songs written by Van McCoy]]