Gladys Knight Good Woman Cassette Tape

Gladys Knight's "Good Woman" on MCA Records, released in 1991, is the cassette tape pressing of her studio comeback record, one of the cleaner later-career entries in a catalog that stretches back to the Pips years and the Motown period of the late 1960s and 1970s.

By 1991, Knight had been a major label presence for over two decades. "Good Woman" arrived the same year Whitney Houston's "All the People That Love You" and Luther Vandross' "Power of Love" were competing for R&B radio rotation, which tells you where the bar was set for adult contemporary soul that year. MCA Records at the time was running a respectable R&B roster, and Knight fit the label well, a proven voice who did not need reinvention, just the right production room. The album produced the single "Men," which charted and reminded radio programmers what they already knew. Knight's phrasing on this record is controlled and deliberate. The Pips were gone, but the formal sense of arrangement carried over. This record belongs to the lineage running from late Motown through the polished R&B productions of the early 1990s, and it holds its place there without apology.

This copy comes in the cassette shell format, black-and-white portrait photography on the J-card with red serif lettering, which matches the album's original MCA pressing aesthetic. The shell itself should be inspected for any tape housing cracks along the spine edge before you drop it in a deck. If the ribbon looks intact and the label paper sits flat without peeling at the corner, this one is road-ready. A solid find for anyone maintaining a working cassette library of 1990s soul and R&B. Check the shell seam on the long edge of the housing where hairline cracks tend to appear first on tapes from this pressing period.

OWNER VERIFY: Confirm 1991 MCA Records U.S. cassette pressing against label imprint on the J-card spine.