Jim Weatherly, "Midnight Train to Georgia" Songwriter, Dies at 77
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hollywoodreporter.comJim Weatherly, the country music singer-songwriter who wrote Gladys Knight's hit "Midnight Train To Georgia," has died. He was 77.
Weatherly passed away of natural causes at his home near Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday, his friend and music publisher Charlie Monk told the Tennessean.
In a music career that spanned five-decades, Weatherly released nearly a dozen studio albums but he is best known for his collaborations with Gladys Knight & the Pips, writing some of their greatest hits including"Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye," "Midnight Train to Georgia" and "You're the Best Thing (That Ever Happened to Me)." Born March 17, 1943,in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Weatherly began writing songs as a teenager and played in.
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