GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Created on 21/05/2002Latest update on 13/01/2021
Artist: Hoagy Carmichael Orch.
Author: Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorrell
Label: Victor
Year: 1930
Vocal by Hoagy himself and with Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. Hoagy had never been in Georgia when he wrote it.
Covers:
- 1931:
- 1932:
- 1934:
Frank Trumbauer [the man who came up with the idea to write a song about Georgia: "Nobody ever lost money writing songs about the South"; Hoagy had to agree; that's exactly what he experienced writing Washboard Blues and Rockin' Chair]
- 1936:
- 1939:
- 1941:
- 1941:
- 1941:
- 1941:
- 1956:
- 1960:
Ray Charles [n°1 US]
- 1961:
Hugues Aufray [as Georgia in French]
- 1964:
- 1965:
- 1966:
- 1966:
- 1967:
- 1968:
- 1970:
- 1970:
- 1975:
- 1977:
- 1977:
- 1978:
- 1989:
- 1991:
- 1991:
- 1993:
- 1995:
- 1999:
- 2001:
- 2002:
- 2005:
- 2006:
- 2008:
- 2008:
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood [live]
- 2009:
- 2009:
- 2013:
- 2014:
- 2019:
Official state song of Georgia in the wake of Ray Charles' hit. He was born in Albany, Georgia. Lyrics don't exclude this song is about a person: Hoagy had a younger sister named Georgia.
