Music Trivia - Midnight Train To Georgia

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:32 pm

Here is a multiple question music trivia post about the song Midnight Train To Georgia. We all know that Gladys Knight & The Pips had a #1 megahit with it in 1973.

What was the original title of the song?
Who wrote it and originally recorded it?
Who was the song written about?
Who recorded it first after the name was changed?

Eightball · Post by **Eightball** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:47 pm

Midnight Plane to Houston

Jim Weatherly

Farrah Fawcett, Lee Majors

Cissy Houston

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:11 pm

Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors? Why do I have an image of Leonard Nemoy singing "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town" in my head?

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:36 pm

You are correct.

Jim Weatherly had recorded one of his own songs, "Midnight Plane to Houston," and said, "It was based on a conversation I had with somebody... about taking a midnight plane to Houston," Weatherly recalls. "I wrote it as a kind of a country song. Weatherly said that the phone coversation was with Farrah Fawcett and he used Fawcett and his friend Lee Majors, who she'd just started dating, "as kind of like characters. Then, we sent the song to a guy named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta and he wanted to cut it on Cissy Houston... he asked if I minded if he changed the title to 'Midnight Train to Georgia.' And I said, I don't mind. Just don't change the rest of the song." The song was recorded by singer Cissy Houston before Gladys Knight & The Pips did it.

Here is the original Jim Weatherly version.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1940

Here is the version after it was retitiled "Midnight Train To Georgia" done by Cissy Houston.

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/midnig ... d317275123

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:48 pm

I kinda like Weatherley's version better...