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Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:06 pm**

TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:27 pm

Karearea wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:00 pm
"Time Is Tight" - is that what that's called! So familiar

Steve Cropper and "Donald Duck" Dunn...

Part of a great band "that could turn goat piss into gasoline".

PP

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:15 am**

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:02 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:19 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:27 pm**

This is rather special...

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:10 am**

Good on Chuck Negron...

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:24 am**

They played at a Tribal Casino about an hour and a half away last weekend.
I looked up their set list and it said that they play one 1:15 set.
I decided that three hours of driving, the cost of gas (still ~$5/gal for 91), and the price of the ticket just wasn't worth it.

I had a chance to see them live in 1972 or 3. headlining with El Chicano and Rod Stewart opening for them. A stadium concert, 2+ hour rain delay.

My teenaged date's father was very strict about her curfew so we were walking through the parking lot when they began playing.

PP

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:36 am**

PHXPhlyer wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:24 am
They played at a Tribal Casino about an hour and a half away last weekend.
I looked up their set list and it said that they play one 1:15 set.
I decided that three hours of driving, the cost of gas (still ~$5/gal for 91), and the price of the ticket just wasn't worth it.
I had a chance to see them live in 1972 or 3. headlining with El Chicano and Rod Stewart opening for them. A stadium concert, 2+ hour rain delay.
My teenaged date's father was very strict about her curfew so we were walking through the parking lot when they began playing.

PP

I suspect you and I have a partially musically contiguous taste in these matters. I am apt to travel to the Americas (and Canada) in the next 9 months and do some flying (which may or may not be the last of mine there I guess) and would happily contrive a plan to meet up, fly, or not, we could just philosophize, or womanize, and listen, with a man of your flying caliber, good nature and musically kind recognizances.

Quo vadis?

Posted: **Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:21 am**

Christina Skjolberg on fire while defying the fates and family drudgery... Anybody who uses an old fashioned Moog is Ok by me.

Posted: **Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:33 am**

Posted: **Sat Jul 30, 2022 3:10 pm**

Amen to the lyrics in this one Adrian...

Posted: **Sat Jul 30, 2022 3:30 pm**

Posted: **Sat Jul 30, 2022 4:17 pm**

Say what you like about Ted, he sure can rock...

Posted: **Sun Jul 31, 2022 5:48 am**

And this cracking album (not a dud track on it).

Posted: **Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:06 am**

Posted: **Sun Jul 31, 2022 9:00 am**

The story behind Midnight Train to Georgia

Gladys Knight was beginning to feel like a second-class citizen at Motown, a label she had never wanted to sign with in the first place. During the boom years at Motor City she had been denied the house writing talents of Holland, Dozier and Holland and, despite a run of hits with the Pips, was becoming an untended outpost in Berry Gordy’s empire.

After the appropriately valedictory “Neither One of Us (Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye)”, it was indeed farewell for Knight. When her Motown contract came up for renewal in 1973, she switched to Buddah Records, run by the record executive Neil Bogart as a catch-all label for late-Sixties pop, rock and soul.

For Knight and the Pips it was a gamble that might not have paid off: their first single, “Where Peaceful Waters Flow”, created few ripples. But the second shunted all aside to top the charts. “Midnight Train to Georgia” came from the prodigious writing talents of Jim Weatherly, who had given Knight “Neither One of Us”. It was originally penned as a slow, Glen Campbell-style country number, “Midnight Plane to Houston”.

Weatherly was inspired by a phone conversation with the actress Farrah Fawcett. “We were just talking and she said she was packing,” said Weatherly. “She was going to take the midnight plane to Houston to visit her folks.” He rang off and, within the hour, the song was finished. Weatherly’s original found its way, appropriately, to Cissy Houston, the mother of Witney, who was signed to Atlantic. The coincidence in names would have sounded too corny, so Atlantic switched Houston for Georgia and grounded the night flight in favour of a rolling soul train.

Houston’s cover of “Midnight Train to Georgia” was a respectable hit in the US and Weatherly’s publisher risked two bites at the cherry, forwarding the song to Knight. Cut in Detroit, the track became a big hit. The song, also the opener on the Pips’ first post-Motown album, Imagination, earned Knight a Grammy for best R&B vocal group performance.

- The Independent