• GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS – MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA-1973.wmv – Las Vegas Night Clubs

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    Midnight Educate to Georgia” is a 1973 number-1 hit solitary by Gladys Knight & the Pips, their 2nd launch right after departing Motown Information for Buddah Records. Written by Jim Weatherly, and integrated on the Pips’ 1973 LP Creativeness, “Midnight Prepare to Georgia” won the 1974 Grammy Award for Very best R&B Vocal Functionality By A Duo, Team Or Chorus and has grow to be Knight’s .The theme of the track is how intimate enjoy can conquer variances in background. The boyfriend of the song’s narrator is a failed musician who left his native Georgia to go to Los Angeles to grow to be a “superstar, but he didn’t get much”. He decides to give up, and “go again to the life he as soon as knew.” Despite the fact that she’s settled and secure in herself, the narrator decides to move to Georgia with him: “And I’ll be with him On that midnight prepare to Georgia I would rather live in his world Than live with no him in mine.” The track was formerly recorded by singer Cissy Houston, and produced as a solitary a year before. Jim Weatherly had recorded one of his personal tunes, “Midnight Plane to Houston,” on Jimmy Bowen’s Amos Information. “It was based mostly on a dialogue I had with somebody… about using a midnight airplane to Houston,” Weatherly recalls. “I wrote it as a sort of a region track. Then we sent the tune to a man named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta and he needed to cut it on Cissy Houston… he asked if I minded if he changed the title to ‘Midnight Educate to Georgia.’ And I explained, I do not thoughts. Just never change the relaxation

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