I've Got to Use My Imagination

{{Infobox song

| name = I've Got to Use My Imagination

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Gladys Knight & the Pips

| album = Imagination

| B-side = I Can See Clearly Now

| released = November 1973

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| recorded =

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| genre = {{flatlist |

• Psychedelic soul
• funk

}}

| length = 3:29

| label = Buddah

| writer = Gerry Goffin, Barry Goldberg

| producer = Kenny Kerner

| prev_title = Midnight Train to Georgia

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

| next_year = 1974

}}

"I've Got to Use My Imagination" is a song recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Released from the hit album, Imagination, which was their debut album with Buddah Records. It was a success on the soul and pop charts, spending a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1974 and peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=330}} It became one of the band's highest charting songs and eventually sold more than one million copies.

On the television series A Different World, Whitley, Jaleesa and another classmate perform the song to audition to sing backup for Gladys Knight (who made a special guest appearance on the show).

The song has been covered by such artists as Joan Osborne, Professor RJ Ross, Bobby Bland, Joe Cocker and The Rides. Ian Moss recorded a version for his sixth studio album, Soul on West 53rd (2009).