gladys knight & the pips: midnight train to georgia

The original inspiration for the song was Farrah Fawcett, long before she became famous. The writer, Jim Weatherly, knew Lee Majors and had a brief conversation with Majors’ then-girlfriend Fawcett, who mentioned to him that she was going to take a midnight plane to Houston to visit her parents. The words “midnight plane to Houston” stuck with Weatherly and he used it as the basis for writing his original version, although the story in the song is not based on Fawcett but a story line that he wrote around the title. (via)