Midnight Train to Georgia
| "Midnight Train to Georgia" | ||||
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| Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips | ||||
| from the album Imagination | ||||
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| Released | August 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Studio | Venture Sound, Somerville, New Jersey | |||
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| Length | 4:38 (album version) 3:55 (single version) | |||
| Label | Buddah | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Weatherly | |||
| Producer(s) | Tony Camillo & Gladys Knight & the Pips Engineer/Mixer Ed Stasium | |||
| Gladys Knight & the Pips singles chronology | ||||
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| "Midnight Train to Georgia" on YouTube | ||||
"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. It also won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus and has become Knight's signature song.
The song is sung from the perspective of someone whose lover, having failed to become a Hollywood star, is leaving Los Angeles to move back to Georgia, taking the titular "midnight train". The singer expresses her commitment to accompanying him to Georgia: "And I'll be with him (I know you will) / On that midnight train to Georgia".