<Table> <Tr> <Td> "All I Need Is Time" (1973) </Td> <Td> "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973) </Td> <Td> "I've Got to Use My Imagination" (1973) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "All I Need Is Time" (1973) </Td> <Td> "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973) </Td> <Td> "I've Got to Use My Imagination" (1973) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Midnight Train to Georgia" is a 1973 number - one hit single 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" won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and has become Knight's signature song . </P> <P> The song was originally written and performed by Jim Weatherly under the title "Midnight Plane to Houston", which he recorded on Jimmy Bowen's Amos Records . "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 . Then we sent the song to a guy named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta and he wanted to cut it with 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 ."' Weatherly, in an interview with Gary James, stated that the phone conversation was with Farrah Fawcett and he used Fawcett and his friend Lee Majors, whom she had just started dating, "as kind of like characters ." </P>

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