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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.'
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 .
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 ...
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, a 1995 album by Cissy Houston Riding the Midnight Train , an American folk music anthology album " Don't Stop Believin' ", a song by Journey using the term "midnight train" twice
George Michael sang the song with a small adaptation of the lyrics ('If you were my woman') during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium. In 1990, the song was released on the b-side of the Praying for Time single.
However, Mayfield changed some of the lyrics and re-recorded it with Gladys Knight & the Pips in 1974. Gladys Knight & the Pips' version reached #2 on the U.S. R&B chart, #5 on the U.S. pop chart, and #13 on the Canadian pop chart in 1974. [2] It was featured on their 1974 soundtrack album Claudine. [3]