In the summer of 1973, Gladys Knight and the Pips unveiled their masterpiece, Midnight Train to Georgia. It became an international smash hit and earned them their first Grammy and a lofty place in the history of American pop music. Billboard Magazine recently ranked it at No. 74 on its Top 500 greatest hits of all-time.

Episode 1 of our documentary podcast takes you behind the scenes inside the New Jersey  recording studio where the music makers themselvess  tell you the remarkable back story of  how this iconic record  was almost never made. And how the the planets  finally aligned in a very magical way.

Stay tuned for future episodes in which we expand the scoe of this extraorinary chapter in the magnificent and tragic history of Black music in America…