Midnight Train to Georgia

"Midnight Train to Georgia" is a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, their first release after departing Motown Records for Buddah Records. Written by Jim Weatherly, and included on the Pips' 1973 LP Imagination, "Midnight Train to Georgia" won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and has become Knight's signature song.

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1973 - Gladys Knight & the Pips - Motown Records - Buddah Records - Jim Weatherly - Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus - Signature song

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The song has its roots in "Midnight Plane to Houston", recorded by singer Cissy Houston (the mother of Whitney Houston). Its theme is how romantic love can conquer differences in background. The boyfriend of the song's narrator is a failed musician who left his native Georgia to move to Los Angeles to become a "superstar, but he didn't get far". He decides to give up, and "go back to the life he once knew". Despite the fact that she's settled and secure in herself, the narrator decides to move to Georgia with him:

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Cissy Houston - Whitney Houston - Georgia - Los Angeles

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:"And I'll be with him

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:On that midnight train to Georgia

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:I'd rather live in his world

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:Than live without him in mine."

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"Midnight Train to Georgia" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

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Grammy Hall of Fame - 1999

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