 If I Were Your Woman, Gladys Knight and the Pips, they ranked number 13 in our special countdown to the 40 top artists of the 70s. Well, here now is the soul artist who grew up in Forest City, Arkansas, singing gospel songs with his four brothers until he was 16 years old. Then he decided he wanted to sing popular music and switched over. A few years later, in early 1968, he hit the charts with a moderate hit called Backup Train. Then his first number one came four years after that.