Music Deaths: Jim Weatherly Wrote 'Midnight Train to Georgia and Others

 JIM WEATHERLY,  77

Died 3 February 2021

Singer / songwriter / composer.  Wrote song "Midnight Train to Georgia," a hit for Gladys Knight & the Pips.  

From Mississippi.  Played quarterback for Ole Miss.  

Had a #11 hit on the Pop charts in 1974 with "The Need to Be"

Wrote these hits for Gladys Knight & the Pips:

"Midnight Train to Georgia"   (#1-1973)

"Neither One of Us"   (#2-1973)

"Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"  (#3-1974)