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"Midnight Train to Georgia" is a song most famously performed by Gladys Knight & the Pips, their second release after departing Motown Records for Buddah Records. Written by Jim Weatherly , and included on the Pips' 1973 LP Imagination , "Midnight Train to Georgia" became the group's first single to top the Billboard Hot 100 .
Imagination is the eleventh studio album recorded by American R&B group Gladys Knight & the Pips, released in October 1973 on the Buddah label. The album, the group's first for Buddah after leaving Motown, includes their first and only Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Midnight Train to Georgia", which also reached number-one on the R&B singles chart.
"Midnight Train to Georgia" 1 1 10 (1976 reissue) 5 "I've Got to Use My Imagination" 4 1 – 25 1974 "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" 3 1 7 6 "On and On" 5 2 – 13 "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)" 21 – – 13 1975 "The Way We Were/Try to Remember" 11 6 4 29 1976 "So Sad the Song" 47 12 20 – 1977 "Baby, Don't Change Your Mind" 52 10 4 58 1978
In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group's forlorn masterpiece, 'Midnight Train to Georgia.'
b/w "If You Gonna Leave (Just Leave)" 33 13 25 — 64 11 "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" b/w "Can't Give It Up No More" 2 1 15 — 16 31 Neither One of Us: The following singles were released after the group left Motown 1973 "The Look of Love" b/w "You're My Everything" — — — — — 21 Silk N' Soul
His best-known song is "Midnight Train to Georgia", recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. It peaked at number 1 on the pop and R&B charts, and went on to win a Grammy Award . The song was subsequently inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of ...
For example, "Midnight Train to Georgia" hit the Top 5 of the UK singles chart in the summer of 1976, a full three years after its success in the U.S. Knight and the Pips continued to have hits until the late 1970s, when they were forced to record separately due to legal issues, resulting in Knight's first solo LP recordings— Miss Gladys ...
The album had three singles that became a hit. "Didn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime)" peaked at No. 63 on the pop chart, and No. 11 on the R&B chart. [2] " The Nitty Gritty", originally recorded by Shirley Ellis, peaked at No. 19 on the pop charts, and on No. 2 on the R&B charts.