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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 .
"Midnight Train", a song by The Charlie Daniels Band from Homesick Heroes "Midnight Train", a song by Chet Atkins and The Country All-Stars from Jazz from the Hills
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 ...
In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group's forlorn masterpiece, 'Midnight Train to Georgia.'
"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 ...
This included the Top Country Albums chart. [6] 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.
Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. [1] The song refers to the passenger train Midnight Special and its "ever-loving light." The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the prisoner and has been performed by many artists.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.