You know, it must have sucked for that guy who "Midnight train to Georgia" is about.

[JVS]

I mean, sure, on the plus side the singer is going with him, but I imagine that having an upbeat Gladys Knight singing about your failed life and the Pips dancing around and singing about how you couldn't make it and you didn't get far would be about the last thing you could tolerate listening to at that point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjfrj0N7eY&feature=related

[Strong Atheist]

1. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[Schema Thing]

2. True, but not as badly as this poor guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S1ODxaoZi0



(Lucinda Williams "Come on")

[JVS]

3. I guess it could be worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ

[Schema Thing]

4. someone should update that with a song about a guy...

...who thinks his first threesome is going to be awesome until!

[Quantess]

10. Poor Timothy!

Yikes! :yoiks:

[mitchum]

13. Or that poor guy in her "Greenville"

Hell, I'm from Greenville
and I never want to go back there

[gmoney]

5. well, his city was changed...

The song was written as "Midnight Plane to Texas" but the producer thought "train" and "Georgia" would be more timeless... good call, I'd say.

[MajorChode]

6. I really like that song

I remember watching Gladys Knight and the Pips performing the song on TV. Interestingly the original lyrics were "Midnight Plane to Houston" and it was more of a country and western song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Train_To_Georgia

[noamnety]

7. The dude is Lee Majors? And the woman - farrah fawcett

interesting trivia at the bottom of that page!

(made up story line, but apparently those were the people who inspired it)

[MajorChode]

8. Not exactly

It appears that Fawcett's comment about "midnight plane to Houston" inspired the song, but it didn't appear to have much to do with Lee Majors other than the author knew Fawcett through him.

It is an interesting piece of trivia, though.

[noamnety]

12. Oh you are right

this is why I don't do late night reading comprehension tests. :)

I guess she was going to visit her parents, not him, yep.

[blondeatlast]

11. I was alwasys a huge Gladys fan. She had more raw talent and a better voice than

Diana ross, but wasn't as pretty so I think was pushed aside to some degree.

[mitchum]

14. Mrs mitchum insists that Gladys wipes the floor with Aretha

[blondeatlast]

16. I'd say they are neck- and neck, but Gladys wins with a sad love song. nt

[alphafemale]

9. What about the "Culture Shock" for the LA Woman going back to early 70's GA?

egads

:scared:

[JVS]

15. She's the one who decided to go with him and she sounds happy enough

[peekaloo]

17. The Pips doing that "woo woo" while pulling an imaginary train whistle

cord was the coup de grace for the poor fellow. :cry: