who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 07:09 PM
I have done a recording of this song, but I know wery little about it exept for the wersion Ive heard with Willie Nelson.
Best regards
Tono
Best regards
Tono
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 07:52 PM
' "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics). It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael [1]. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or to a woman named "Georgia". ' wikipedia
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 08:48 PM
The most famous, of course, Tono, was Ray Charles' version. For all intents and purposes, it was 'his song.' Carmichael also wrote Stardust, as well as a slew of other famous songs. Of course, his most 'famous' and most played song, played by millions of young girls any time they walk by a piano would be 'Heart and Soul!' LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoagy_Carmichael
Gary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoagy_Carmichael
Gary
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 09:47 PM
Thank you folks.
Is the melody PD (publik domain) ?
Is the melody PD (publik domain) ?
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 09:55 PM
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Thank you folks.
Is the melody PD (publik domain) ?
Georgia On My Mind by Hoagy Carmichael & Stuart Gorrell
Copyright ©1930 by Peermusic Ltd. Copyright Renewed.
International Copyright Secured
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 10:26 PM
Thank you FirstBassman.
Best regards
Tono
Best regards
Tono
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 10:48 PM
Mel: Well then who's on first?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: I mean the fellow's name.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy on first.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The first baseman.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy playing...
Tono: Who is on first!
Mel: I'm asking you who's on first.
Tono: That's the man's name.
Mel: That's who's name?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: Well go ahead and tell me.
Tono: That's it.
Mel: That's who?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: Look, you gotta first baseman?
Tono: Certainly.
Mel: Who's playing first?
Tono: That's right.
Mel: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
Tono: Every dollar of it.
Mel: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name on first base.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy that gets...
Tono: That's it.
Mel: Who gets the money...
Tono: He does, every dollar of it. Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.
Mel: Who's wife?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: What's wrong with that?
Tono: I wanna know is when you sign up the first baseman, how does he sign his name?
Mel: Who.
Tono: The guy.
Mel: Who...................
Tono: Yes.
Mel: I mean the fellow's name.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy on first.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The first baseman.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy playing...
Tono: Who is on first!
Mel: I'm asking you who's on first.
Tono: That's the man's name.
Mel: That's who's name?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: Well go ahead and tell me.
Tono: That's it.
Mel: That's who?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: Look, you gotta first baseman?
Tono: Certainly.
Mel: Who's playing first?
Tono: That's right.
Mel: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
Tono: Every dollar of it.
Mel: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name on first base.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy that gets...
Tono: That's it.
Mel: Who gets the money...
Tono: He does, every dollar of it. Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.
Mel: Who's wife?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: What's wrong with that?
Tono: I wanna know is when you sign up the first baseman, how does he sign his name?
Mel: Who.
Tono: The guy.
Mel: Who...................
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 11:00 PM
Thoid Base!
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/02/09 11:10 PM
This is the first version of Georgia on my mind I ever heard. My grandfather used to play a lot of Django Reinhardt songs for my brother and I. He'd grab his violin and play the Stephan Grapelly-parts. Sometimes a friend of my grandparents would sit in and play the guitar. Fantastic.
Georgia on my mind - Quintette du Hot Club de France
enjoy
Georgia on my mind - Quintette du Hot Club de France
enjoy
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/03/09 12:11 AM
Django and Stephan - superb. thanks for pointing us at this
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/03/09 12:25 AM
LOL Rob, Thanks !
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/03/09 02:47 AM
While this video doesn't have too much of Georgia On My Mind, it shows some of it. This album is Ray Charles and The Count Basie Orchestra, two fantastic entities that never played together. The album, Ray Sings, Basie Swings is a must have album if you're a jazz lover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf0Qqr85CgE
And, this particular album has ties, in a family sort of way, to one of our own here in the forums.
Gary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf0Qqr85CgE
And, this particular album has ties, in a family sort of way, to one of our own here in the forums.
Gary
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/03/09 10:03 PM
Quote:
Mel: Well then who's on first?
Tono: Yes.
Mel: I mean the fellow's name.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The guy on first.
Tono: Who.
Mel: The first baseman.
Cute Rob, thanks.
The "Who's On First" skit is one of my favorites.
In the late 70s a couple of comics (I forget who) did a take-off with The Who, Guess Who and Yes.
It was pretty funny.
I think I've mentioned this before, but the FirstBassman moniker is indeed a play on words ... being left-handed when I played baseball as a child I was always told to play first base and the first instrument I started playing was bass.
It is the same name I use on every forum and so it is plastered all over the Internet.
Note - there is an eBay account with that same name but it is not me.
- Mark
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/03/09 10:49 PM
who did the "who" sketch first? Marx bros? abbott & costello? I'm sure I've seen it, but I can't recall....;)
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/03/09 11:50 PM
abbott & costello
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/04/09 01:19 AM
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/04/09 02:54 AM
Did you ever see the similar one with George W & Condy? It's hillarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOwijC4Y20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOwijC4Y20
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/04/09 03:32 AM
Can't stop myself telling this true story here about Stefan Grapelli, as he's been mentioned above a couple of times.
In the late 80's I briefly shared a flat with a guy who was the night chef at a major international hotel here in Melbourne, Australia. He came home one morning as I was going out to work, with this gem. The previous night his night waiter had taken a late order for a meal from a room and on delivering it, saw a violin on the bed.
"Oh, you play the violin, how lovely, I play the violin", the waiter had burbled as he placed the meal on the table. The hotel guest, according to the waiter, had simply smiled and said, "Oh, I play a little", or words to that effect. Absoloutely no grandstanding, no chest beating, no nothing. When the waiter got back to the kitchen he mentioned to my mate Peter the chef that the guests face was vaugely familair. They looked up the current guest/room list. Sure enough: Grapelli, in town for a concert. Peter said the waiter didn't know whether to go back and ask for an autograph or just find a hole in the ground to crawl in to and die of embarrassment there!
Cheers,
John
In the late 80's I briefly shared a flat with a guy who was the night chef at a major international hotel here in Melbourne, Australia. He came home one morning as I was going out to work, with this gem. The previous night his night waiter had taken a late order for a meal from a room and on delivering it, saw a violin on the bed.
"Oh, you play the violin, how lovely, I play the violin", the waiter had burbled as he placed the meal on the table. The hotel guest, according to the waiter, had simply smiled and said, "Oh, I play a little", or words to that effect. Absoloutely no grandstanding, no chest beating, no nothing. When the waiter got back to the kitchen he mentioned to my mate Peter the chef that the guests face was vaugely familair. They looked up the current guest/room list. Sure enough: Grapelli, in town for a concert. Peter said the waiter didn't know whether to go back and ask for an autograph or just find a hole in the ground to crawl in to and die of embarrassment there!
Cheers,
John
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/04/09 07:13 AM
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...Of course, his most 'famous' and most played song, played by millions of young girls any time they walk by a piano would be 'Heart and Soul!' LOL ...
Gary
Hope it was OK for little boys, too. Cause I sure played it, and I'm no girl. I liked it cause it had a rock 'n' roll feel to it. My parents were OK with it, because my sister was taking piano lessons too, and I'm sure they thought the duet was cute.
Without question, "Heart and Soul" is Hoagy Carmichael's most played (but not best) song, though almost everyone who has heard it played, or even played it, has no idea about the name of the song.
A very odd song, in that sense!
Among Hoagy's other songs are these two gems: "Skylark" and "(Up a) Lazy River".
The lyricist on the latter was the uncle Sidney of Wesley Dick, who has the incredible BiaB site:
http://www.wesleydick.com/
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/04/09 07:31 AM
Tono (and EVERYBODY else who's reading!),
I have a movie recommendation with a tie in, my 3rd favorite all-time movie!
"The Best Years of Our Lives" from 1946 won 7 Oscars, including "Best Picture". It is universally considered one of the 100 greatest American films ever made.
Though it's an old movie, the story is incredible, and still packs a punch. Ironically, it's very timely, now, at this moment in American history. (The story is set at the close of World War II.)
Without giving anything away, one of the actors received 2 Oscars for the same performance (the only time in Academy Award history).
Be forewarned, there are no fantastic special effects or big explosions. It won't matter. You'll get sucked into the story. The people seem real, not like actors acting.
It's unlikely that you will ever think of the so-called "Greatest Generation" of Americans in the same way again, after seeing this film.
"The Best Years of Our Lives" is more than a movie; it's a work of art!
The tie in?
The local bar (joint) owner, "Butch" is played by Hoagy Carmichael.
This is your chance to see the guy that wrote "Georgia on My Mind", "Stardust", "Skylark", "The Nearness of You", "(Up a) Lazy River", and "Heart and Soul" in action!
"Butch" plays "(Up a) Lazy River" and "Among My Souvenirs", among others, on the piano!!!
I have a movie recommendation with a tie in, my 3rd favorite all-time movie!
"The Best Years of Our Lives" from 1946 won 7 Oscars, including "Best Picture". It is universally considered one of the 100 greatest American films ever made.
Though it's an old movie, the story is incredible, and still packs a punch. Ironically, it's very timely, now, at this moment in American history. (The story is set at the close of World War II.)
Without giving anything away, one of the actors received 2 Oscars for the same performance (the only time in Academy Award history).
Be forewarned, there are no fantastic special effects or big explosions. It won't matter. You'll get sucked into the story. The people seem real, not like actors acting.
It's unlikely that you will ever think of the so-called "Greatest Generation" of Americans in the same way again, after seeing this film.
"The Best Years of Our Lives" is more than a movie; it's a work of art!
The tie in?
The local bar (joint) owner, "Butch" is played by Hoagy Carmichael.
This is your chance to see the guy that wrote "Georgia on My Mind", "Stardust", "Skylark", "The Nearness of You", "(Up a) Lazy River", and "Heart and Soul" in action!
"Butch" plays "(Up a) Lazy River" and "Among My Souvenirs", among others, on the piano!!!
Re: who wrote the melody to Georgia on my mind ? - 02/04/09 12:45 PM
"Hoagy" Carmichael was my late brothers' nickname.
Apparantly he (the real Hoagy) was the son of my great-grandfathers brother who emigrated to the USA way back - could be just family rumour of course!
Apparantly he (the real Hoagy) was the son of my great-grandfathers brother who emigrated to the USA way back - could be just family rumour of course!
"The Best Years of Our Lives" - 02/04/09 10:15 PM
Yup, very good movie.
Uh... one of the main characters is a real person ... not an actor.
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The people seem real, not like actors acting.
Uh... one of the main characters is a real person ... not an actor.