AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Gladys knight first to say goodbye1/21/2024 ![]() ![]() bus station ready to catch a bus home to Oklahoma one night. ![]() Aiken Nutz from Tahlequah OkGladys & The Pips' recording of Midnight Train to Georgia is special to me.And of course Gladys' record was more of a groove-oriented thing. It wasn't as much, but just some of the feel of the background vocals. Some of the background vocals you hear on Glady's records were first on Cissy Houston's record. We said 'change anything but the writer and publisher.' So, he cut the song on Cissy Houston and it was a nice little cross between an R&B and country record. They called and said they would like a more R&B sounding title and asked if we would mind if they changed the title to 'Midnight Train To Georgia'. I cut it on my first album as 'Midnight Plane To Houston.' And then later on, maybe a year or six months later, a guy in Atlanta wanted to cut the song on Cissy Houston, Whitney's mother. Pretty simple little story, but it felt real to me. to make it and doesn't make it and leaves to go back home. Didn't take me long at all, 'cause I actually used Farrah and Lee as kind of like characters I guess. After I got off the phone, I sat down and wrote the song probably in about 30 to 45 minutes. She was gonna take the midnight plane to Houston to visit her folks. We were just talking and she said she was packing. One day I called Lee and Farrah answered the phone. We'd played in the Flag Football League together in L.A. This was written and originally recorded by Jim Weatherly, who had a solo hit in 1974 with "The Need To Be." Weatherly explained the origin of this song in an interview with Gary James: "The song actually came about after a phone call I had with Farrah Fawcett. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |