<P> In 1981, country singer Tanya Tucker recorded a version (on an album of the same name) with differing lyrics and an altered timeline . These altered lyrics were based on the plot line of the 1981 movie The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia . </P> <P> During 1991, the song was sung as a cover version by Reba McEntire on her album For My Broken Heart . It reached number 12 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart . While still a commercially successful release, this broke a string of 24 consecutive top 10 country singles by McEntire . </P> <P> The song also had a successful music video, wherein the older brother of the story is given the name "Raymond Brody"; the video for McEntire's version also contained spoken dialogue that expanded on several of the song's plot points, by suggesting that the judge knew that the narrator's brother did not commit the crime, but was nonetheless anxious to convict him, since he, himself (the judge) had also been having sex with the wife (played by Playboy centerfold / pin up model Barbara Moore) and was worried that a long, involved trial would cause this fact to become known . It also establishes that the little sister (played by McEntire, and portrayed both as a young woman in flashbacks and as a 60 - year - old woman using heavy makeup) caught Andy in the act with her brother's wife and that the unfaithful woman also had an affair with the sister's own fiancé . </P> <Ul> <Li> For a 1986 Designing Women episode, main character Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) has one of her famous tirades, defending her beauty queen sister Suzanne against catty remarks made by a young woman, concluding with "And that, just so you will know, and your children will someday know, was the night the lights went out in Georgia!" </Li> <Li> It is a prime example of a twist ending in a song, and in the 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, one of the mobsters in the film named Nice Guy Eddie says "...this is the first time I ever realized that the girl singin' the song is the one who shot Andy ." </Li> <Li> The opening motif is sampled in "The Time Is Now", which is currently used as American professional wrestler John Cena's entrance music; specifically, the song samples Pete Schofield and The Canadians' rendition . </Li> <Li> In 2011, a book was released titled "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia," written by Jeremy G.T. Reuschling and casually based on the McEntire version of the song and the music video . </Li> <Li> Melinda Schneider and Beccy Cole covered the song on their album Great Women of Country (2014). </Li> <Li> Comedy group The Credibility Gap recorded a parody version, "The Night That The Lights Stayed On In Pittsburgh ." </Li> </Ul>

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