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Little known Farrah trivia.. She was the inspiration for the hit song Midnight Train To Georgia.
After the R&R band I played with in college headed to L.A. in '66, after a year or so singer/songwriter Jim Weatherly became friends with Lee Majors. One evening Jim was at Majors' place when Lee's then undiscovered girlfriend Farrah came over. Later that evening Farrah told everyone she was going home to see her parents, and said "I'm leaving on a midnight plane to Houston". Those words stuck with Jim, and became the title of his first million selling song, Midnight Train To Georgia. (Gladys Knight, with her Georgia roots, insisted on changing the original title, Midnight Plane to Houston, into Midnight Train To Georgia when she recorded it; Jim was happy to make the change. Since then he has written 20 or 30 more million sellers, and is still writing).
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