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Jim Weatherly Dies: ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’ Songwriter Was 77
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deadline.comJim Weatherly, the songwriter behind a string of 1970s hits for Gladys Knight & the Pips, including the destined-for-standard-status “Midnight Train To Georgia,” died Wednesday of natural causes at his home near Nashville.
He was 77.The singer-songwriter’s death was reported by music publisher and friend Charlie Monk to the Nashville Tennessean.In addition to “Midnight Train to Georgia,” Weatherly wrote the early ’70s Knight hits “Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye” and “You’re the Best Thing (That Ever Happened to Me).”“I’m missing Jim Weatherly already,” Knight tweeted. “He was about life and love.
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