Midnight Train to Georgia

"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.

"Midnight Train to Georgia"
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
from the album Imagination
B-side
  • "Midnight Train to Georgia" (instrumental)
  • "Window Raisin' Granny" (optional)
ReleasedAugust 1973
Recorded1973
Genre
Length4:38 (album version)
3:55 (single version)
LabelBuddah
Songwriter(s)Jim Weatherly
Producer(s)Tony Camillo & Gladys Knight & the Pips Engineer/Mixer Ed Stasium
Gladys Knight & the Pips singles chronology
"All I Need Is Time"
(1973)
"Midnight Train to Georgia"
(1973)
"I've Got to Use My Imagination"
(1973)
Audio
"Midnight Train to Georgia" on YouTube

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 joining him in Georgia: "I'll be with him.... I got to go."

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