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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 .
In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group's forlorn masterpiece, 'Midnight Train to Georgia.'
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 ...
"Midnight Train to Georgia" On the week of June 4, 1977, Cash Box showed that "Midnight Train to Georgia" was being played on WHK in Cleveland where it had gone to no 36, [7] was on the playlist of WBAM in Montgomery, [8] and on the playlist of WWVA in Wheeling. [9] On the week of June 11, it debuted at no. 93 in the Cash Box Top 100 Country ...
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 ...
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.
Loving tribute to the man behind the in the 1970s label idealizes its subject and leaves out any real drama
Midnight Train may refer to: Midnight Train (film) , a 2013 Chinese film "The Midnight Train", a traditional African-American song published by Dorothy Scarborough and by Carl Sandburg; recorded by Dan Zanes and others