Claudine
Soundtrack album by Gladys Knight & the Pips
Released	March 1974
Recorded	Curtom Studios (Chicago, Illinois)
Genre	Soul
Length	30:18
Label	Buddah
Producer	Curtis Mayfield
Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology
Imagination (1973) Claudine (1974) I Feel a Song (1974)
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Curtis in Chicago (1973) Claudine (1974) Sweet Exorcist (1974)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−[2]
Rolling Stone	(not rated)[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Claudine is a Gladys Knight & the Pips album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. The disc is the soundtrack album for the 1974 20th Century Fox motion picture Claudine, starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. The album was released in March 1974 on the Buddah label.

The first single release, "On and On", reached #2 on the R&B chart and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A second single, "Make Yours a Happy Home", was released two years later in 1976 and was a moderate hit, peaking at #13 R&B and #35 on the UK Singles Chart. The album also included one instrumental, "Claudine Theme". The album was also their third of five R&B albums chart-toppers. Also included is a cover of Mayfield's "The Makings of You".

Track listing

Personnel

• Rich Tufo – arranger
• Roger Anfinsen – engineer
• Milton Sincoff – creative packaging director
• Joseph "Lucky" Scott - bass
• Curtis Mayfield, Phil Upchurch - guitars
• Quentin Joseph - drums
• Henry Gibson - congas
• Rich Tufo - keyboards, organ.

Charts

Singles