Midnight Train to Georgia

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Midnight Train to Georgia
  UK 10 05/08/1976 (9 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/01/1973 (19 weeks)

Midnight Train to Georgia is a rhythm and blues and soul song made famous in 1973 by Gladys Knight & the Pips , which was composed and written by the American songwriter Jim Weatherly and which became a number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a million seller and was awarded the Grammy Award in 1974 .

History of origin

Jim Weatherly took the inspiration for the song from a phone call with Farrah Fawcett in 1970. Fawcett stated at the time that after the phone call he wanted to take the last plane to Houston to visit her boyfriend at the time, Lee Majors . In 1971 Weatherly wrote the song Midnight Plane to Houston from this idea and released it himself in 1972 on RCA Records . In the same year, Cissy Houston heard the song and released it under the modified title Midnight Train to Georgia to avoid the apparent appearing of her family name in the song title. Houston said her family are from Georgia and that they prefer to take the train to fly.

Another year later, Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded the song for the album Imagination after moving from Motown to the Buddah Records label . In August 1973, Midnight Train to Georgia was released as a single and quickly reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 . Jim Weatherly interpreted the song again himself in 2003 in the successful modified version.

Other versions

Midnight Train to Georgia was released in 2010 by Neil Diamond on his album Dreams .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources Chart placements: UK, US ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  2. ↑ Midnight Train To Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips at songfacts.com (English).
  3. ↑ a b Craig Hlavaty: The hidden Houston story of a classic radio hit. Houston Chronicle , June 13, 2014, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b Marc Myers: Anatomy of a Song: 'Midnight Train to Georgia'. The Wall Street Journal , August 8, 2013, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b 'Midnight Plane to Houston' (1972). The Secret History of Texas Music. Texas Monthly, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Midnight Train to Georgia (Neil Diamond) on Allmusic (English)
  7. ↑ Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of all time (2010 Edition). May 10, 2013, archived from the original on May 10, 2013 ; accessed on December 12, 2016 .

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