Singer/songwriter Jim Weatherly's best known songs were million-selling hits by Gladys Knight and the Pips "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)," and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me." He also had a Top 20 pop hit with "The Need to Be." That and his other sides are on the compilation The Very Best of Jim Weatherly/The Need to Be issued by Collectables Records on February 27, 2001.
Born James Dexter Weatherly on March 4, 1943, in Pontotoc, MS, Weatherly was an All-American quarterback before choosing songwriting as a career. Some of the artists who recorded his songs include Ray Price (the 1973 number one country cover of "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"), Brenda Lee, Lynn Anderson, and Bob Luman.
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