EXPLANAE MOMENT

Song: Midnight Train to Georgia
Song by: Gladys Knight and the Pips
Song written by: Jim Weatherly
Photo credit: By CBS Television - frontback
Usage: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61834027
Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles
Keyboard player: Gail Nobles

Do y’all hear that train? Do y’all hear it’s horn?…. Today’s topic .. Gladys Knight and the Pips .. Midnight Train to Georgia.

Midnight Train to Georgia is a 1973 number one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Their second release after departing Motown Records for Buddha Records.

The song was written by Jim Weatherly. It was based on a conversation he had with someone about taking a midnight plane to Houston. The song was sent to a guy named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta, and he wanted to cut it with Cissy Houston. He asked if the title could be changed to Midnight Train to Georgia. Jim didn’t mind.

Gospel soul singer Cissy Houston recorded the song as Midnite Train to Georgia released in 1973. The Weatherly’s publisher forwarded the song to Gladys Knight and the Pips, who followed Houston’s lead and kept the title Midnight Train to Georgia.

Like the person in the song that Gladys Knight was singing about, some of you may have moved away to achieve your dream. Some make it and some don’t. Gladys plays the part to support her man. She would rather leave her world to live in his world. That world was LA. But in the end, her man went on back to Georgia. How many of you went away and came back? There’s nothing wrong with that, and it doesn’t mean to stop trying to achieve the dream.

I’m Gail Nobles
This has been an Eplanae Moment. The story behind a song. Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia.