"Midnight Train to Georgia"
1973
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Written by: Jim Weatherly
First released on: Imagination LP, Buddah Records
Winner: 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group, or Chorus
Inducted: Grammy Hall of Fame (1999)
Ranked #432 Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
Plot: Girl follows loser musician boyfriend ("he kept dreaming that someday he'd be a superstar, but he didn't get far") back to Georgia, since L.A. "proved too much for the man" and he's "going back to find what's left of his world."
Best Line: "I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine."
P.S. Dixie loves this song, and would herself much rather live in Georgia than L.A.
