The Night That The Lights Went Out In Georgia was a 1972 hit for Vicki Lawrence. Yes, the same Vicki Lawrence of the Carol Burnett Show fame. She was actually married at the time to the song's writer, Bobby Russell.
"Lizzie and the Rainman" was a 1975 Country and Western hit that Tanya Tucker would take all the way to #1. It was written in 1971 by Kenny O'Dell and Larry Henley. Before Tanya recorded it, it would be laid down by both Bobby Goldsboro and The Hollies.