The duo's biggest record, Someday We'll Be Together -- written by Beavers, Bristol, and Fuqua -- followed a year later. After one final single, Baby Dontcha Worry, Johnny Jackey split, and Beavers cast his lot with Davis, by now the A&R director at Checker. His debut for the label, 1965's Sling Shot, would prove Beavers' biggest solo hit, but his tenure with the company nevertheless proved brief and he spent the next several years skipping from label to label, generating a series of singles (Lover Come Back, I Need My Baby, Bring Me All Your Heartaches, and We're Not Too Young to Fall in Love among them) that sold poorly but were later resurrected in the clubs of Britain's Northern soul circuit. Beavers earned his greatest renown as a songwriter -- the old Johnny Jackey single Someday We'll Be Together was re-recorded in 1969 by the Supremes as Diana Ross' last single with the group, going on to top the charts. He also penned material for artists ranging from Joe Simon to Ella Washington, and for a while worked as a producer, including a stint for Nashville DJ John Richbourg and station WLAC. Beavers eventually returned home to Cartersville to own and operate his own club, Brothers Three. He also went back to school, becoming an ordained minister and preaching at Cartersville's New Hope Baptist Church and later the Glory Harvester Church. Beavers then mounted a career in politics, serving as executive assistant to longtime Georgia governor Joe Frank Harris; for many years, he also wrote a weekly newspaper column for Cartersville's Daily Tribune News, Rovi