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"Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, and first recorded that same year by Carmichael at the RCA Victor Studios at 155 East 24th Street in New York City. The song has been most often associated with singer Ray Charles, who was a native of the U.S. state of Georgia in The South of the United States, and recorded it for his 1960
Ray Charles – piano, vocals; Edgar Willis – bass (tracks 14, 17, 18) Roosevelt Sheffield – bass (track 19) Mel Lewis – drums (track 14) Teagle Fleming – drums (tracks 17) William Peeples – drums (tracks 18, 19) David 'Fathead' Newman – tenor saxophone (tracks 14, 17 to 19), alto saxophone (tracks 18, 19)
The Library of Congress: Historic American Sheet Music: 1850–1920: American: 3,042 19th and early 20th-century American sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. The Library of Congress: The Library of Congress: Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870–1885: 19th-century ...
The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
Stuart Graham Steven Gorrell (September 17, 1901 – August 10, 1963) was best known for writing the lyrics for the song "Georgia on My Mind". Born in Knox, Indiana, Gorrell attended Indiana University Bloomington; there he became friends with fellow student Hoagy Carmichael. After hearing Carmichael play the newly composed melody at a party ...
So skilled was Milne as a roll editor, the liner notes suggest that he may not have actually "played" "An American In Paris" at all—in the same way that a musician can write sheet music, Milne was able to prepare roll masters by marking the lines on special graph paper that would be used as a template for the holes punched in the actual piano ...
20. Georgia on My Mind Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell Peermusic III Ltd. Also, if the lyrics were public domain, they would belong in Wikisource, not here. —tregoweth 23:08, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC) Who are you, Carmichael himself? The lyrics are in the Code of Georgia. Previous versions and modifications of the lyrics might be copyrightable, but ...
The album was re-released in 2005 on the Canadian Other People's Music label, with an additional four tracks, though this version lacks the alternate version of "Georgia On My Mind" that had ended the original release. Among the bonus tracks is a loose jam that features Manuel's dog, Mitzi, screeching out a vocal line while the band plays a ...