Jim Weatherly, Midnight Train to Georgia songwriter, dies at 77 CNN 2/6/2021 By Jay Croft, CNN © Ava Gandy/WireImage/Getty Images Jim Weatherly poses at a Grammy event in Cleveland, Mississippi, in March 2019.
Jim Weatherly first gained notice as a University of Mississippi football player, and then as a hit songwriter.
And his love for the game led to his greatest success in music, involving first a young Farrah Fawcett and ultimately a legendary recording of his tune Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Weatherly, who also wrote songs for Ray Price, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers and others, died Wednesday at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee, near Nashville, family friend Charlie Monk told the Tennessean newspaper.
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The Zombies photographed in west London in 1965.
Wise Music Group has purchased the Marquis, Verulam and Mistletoe Melodies music publishing companies from
The Bocu Group, in the process acquiring publishing rights to the works of influential rock band The Zombies.
Included in the purchase are several tracks written by The Zombies Rod Argent, including the Hot 100 No. 2 hit She s Not There from the group’s 1964 debut album
Begin Here and the tracks Tell Her No, Care of Cell 44 and Time of the Season from their 1968 masterpiece
Odessey and Oracle. The sale also includes This Will Be Our Year and “Hold Your Head Up” (both penned by band member Chris White) and God Gave Rock and Roll to You,” a song performed by Argent’s post-Zombies band Argent (written by that group’s Russ Ballard and later covered by Kiss).
Ed Roland for future releases.
Collective Soul have released a total of ten studio albums, including the multi-platinum sellers
Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid and Collective Soul; the platinum-selling
Dosage; and the gold-selling
Blender. The group’s debut single “Shine” peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, with other successful singles including “December,” “The World I Know,” “Where The River Flows,” “Precious Declaration, “Listen” and “Heavy,” all of which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.
Roland – also the founder, frontman and primary songwriter of the band Sweet Tea Project – started his music career as a sound engineer and producer before releasing his debut album
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“And if it looks like we were scared to death/ Like a couple of kids just tryin’ to save each other/ You should’ve seen it in color.”
Jamey Johnson’s award-winning 2008 hit “In Color” - a song about looking back at old black and white photos from World War II and beyond - was actually first inspired by old shots shown at Nashville’s annual BMI Awards.
The song’s co-writer, Lee Thomas Miller, brought up the photos in a conversation with Jamey Johnson. A lightbulb immediately went off for both songwriters, and once they finally got in a room together (along with James Otto), a modern country classic was born.
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