At the head of a column two weeks ago about a walk in the rain along Moore's Creek, I quoted the opening lines from "A Rainy Night in Georgia," and attributed the tune to Brook Benton, who in 1970 took it to the top of the Billboard charts.
First thing Sunday morning on the day the column ran, my friend Gerry Jeffcoat called with feigned indignation saying Tony Joe White wrote "A Rainy Night in Georgia." Brook Benton is who had a hit with it was my feeble rejoinder.
Gerry, a retired surgeon, s
Birney Imes III is the immediate past publisher of The Dispatch.
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