The Very Best of Jim Weatherly: The Need to Be

He’s written huge R&B hits for artists like Gladys Knight (including Midnight Train to Georgia !), but it’s Jim Weatherly’s own country recordings that are featured in this stand-out collection. His biggest hit, I’ll Still Love You , joins It Must Have Been the Rain; Mississippi; Coming Apart; The Need to Be , and nine more.

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  1. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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    Greatest Love Songs, December 17, 2001
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    Jeffrey W. Vigeant (Williamsburg, VA United States) –
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    I first purchased this album of love songs by Jim Weatherly nearly twenty years ago as a 33-1/3 LP in a used music shop in Washington, DC. In recent years, my collection of such albums have gone into mothballs as I’ve built a new library of CDs. I was thrilled to find my search turned this up as available on CD! I highly recommend this romantic collection of love songs. Jim’s words and music easily touches upon emotions anyone who has ever been in love has experienced–be it joy or regret. It would make the perfect Valentine or Anniversary gift. My personal favorites are “Like Old Times Again”, “Roses And Love Songs”, “The Need To Be”, and “You Are A Song”. The next time you dim the lights, pour the wine, and hold your loved one close, let Jim’s words and melodies complete the mood.

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  2. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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    JOURNEY BACK TO THOSE MELLOW 70’S, August 13, 2001
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    Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) –
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    Jim Weatherly started out as a songwriter, and is responsible for such big 70’s hits as “Neither One of Us Wants to be The First to Say Goodbye,” “Midnight Train to Georgia”, “Where Peaceful Waters Flow,” “The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me,” to name a few. As a songwriter, he penned songs of lost love in a straight-forward, honest, every-day conversational tone. As a singer, his quivering tenor/baritone voice was nothing out of the ordinary, yet he managed to convey a great deal of emotion in his delivery. Weatherly’s tunes were those James Taylor-ish type of songs, heavy on acoustic guitar, string accompaniment, and choral accompaniment. My favorite is his own “The Need to Be,” which he enjoyed a mild hit with during those seventies years. A paen to the man who needs to be himself, Weatherly warmly evokes all the things that a man feels he needs to be to be himself. A nice song that conjures up many memories from those fleeting years. Other than this minor hit, the CD is composed of songs from his two solo efforts, that produced a couple of minor country hits and one more pop hit. The best of these are “Living for Everyman’s Dream,” “Like Old Times Again,” “I’ll Still Love You,” “You Are a Song,” “It Must Have Been the Rain,” “Mississippi” and “What’s One More Time.” Weatherly the singer didn’t make a tremendous impact, but as a songwriter, he fed some big hits to stars like Ray Price and Gladys Knight and the Pips. An enjoyable nostalgic collection.

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  3. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    The very best if Jim Weatherly: TheNneed to Be, April 4, 2013
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    I first purchased this as a cartridge back 1976 to put in the 1973 Lincoln Continental that I had just purchased. I loved the car and that enjoyment was only enhanced by the sounds of this tape going through some nice speakers. I selected this tape from a box of assorted tapes. I selected this one because the singer and writer was a man of whom I was familiar from Ole Miss, my alma mater. At school he was the lead of “Jimmy Weatherly and the Vegas” a great rock and roll band and an all American quarterback. Other than being a good lookin’ guy, he didn’t have much goin’ for him. I think Jim wrote the very BEST line of all love songs ever written. I’ll let you find it. Hint – the man is looking down at his wife on the bed. You’ve got to get this CD and play it for your wife or girlfriend, (not both). I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did and will again soon.

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