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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.
The group reached its popular and critical peak soon afterwards, starting with the release of another Weatherly song, "Midnight Train to Georgia", in August 1973. [3] The song eventually hit number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts, becoming their signature song .
In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group's forlorn masterpiece, 'Midnight Train to Georgia.'
Anderson's cover of "Midnight Train to Georgia" was the only single spawned from the project. Anderson objected to the original release of the single and took legal action to stop the promotion of the song. A settlement was eventually reached in December 1982 that called for no other singles to be released from the package. [2]
Jim Weatherly, the songwriter behind a string of 1970s hits for Gladys Knight & the Pips, including the destined-for-standard-status “Midnight Train to Georgia,” died Wednesday of natural ...
Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications Record label US [1]US R&B [1]AUS [2]CAN [3]UK [4]1962 Letter Full of Tears — — — — — Fury: 1965 Gladys Knight and the Pips
1200 Curfews is a live album by the Indigo Girls, released in 1995.. Most of the recordings come from their 1994–95 tour to support the Swamp Ophelia album; seven are from the 1992–93 tour to support the album Rites of Passage.