From “Sweet Home Alabama” to “Carolina in My Mind,” we count down the top tunes celebrating life below the Mason-Dixon
One of the most successful pop hits of the Seventies was inspired by football, friendship and Farrah Fawcett. Songwriter Jim Weatherly was living in Los Angeles and playing on a flag football team with his pal, actor Lee Majors, who would go on to star as TV’s. One day while talking to Majors, Weatherly ended up on the phone with Fawcett, who said she was taking “a midnight plane to Houston.
” Weatherly says he created a mental film of Fawcett and Majors to create the song’s scenario. A record executive suggested the title needed a more appropriate Southern spin so he could pitch it to an R&B act, hence the geographical relocation — and updated mode of transportation. Although Gladys Knight and the Pips earned a Grammy for their version, the first to cover the song was Cissy Houston.
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