Gladys Knight & The Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"

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Surprised there's no thread for this. From 1973's Imagination. Peaked at #1 on the Hot 100 and R&B charts.

An absolute classic.

[Caviar]

Love this.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Classic.

[Private Dancer]

A r&b classic we will never get another one like this one!

[Nick]

www.rockhall.com/inductees/gladys-knight-and-pips

Classic. This one song alone was great enough to get them to get into the RRHOF in 1996. Interestingly Mariah Carey inducted them that year.

[HolidayGuy]

Always adored it. Gladys and her Pips were magic.

[Ernesto]

Listening to this beauty, this was the first Soul record I remember listening to as a child. My mum loves Gladys Knight and the Pips!

[Private Dancer]

Classic!

[jenglisbe]

She went to that station but didn't actually go with him...

[disman00911]

This is good.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#74 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs 

In a classic Richard Pryor skit from 1977, the comedian imagines Knights’ back-up singers twirling and clapping as they sing only the back-up vocals to “Midnight Train to Georgia.” It’s a goofy reminder of the potent call-and-response that defines this moving hit. Knight builds on the foundation of weepy southern soul — late-night speakeasy piano, jabbing horns, sappy strings, and stirring runs on an organ — as she sings about a man whose hopes of becoming a star have been dashed. While the song is defeated, it was an emphatic triumph for Knight: She had just ended her long relationship with Motown Records, and “Midnight Train to Georgia” became a No. 1 hit, proving her career was still right on schedule. — E.L.