Georgia on My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael Free Piano Sheet Music
Georgia on My Mind description
"Georgia on My Mind" is a song sung by the internationally famous U.S. singer, Ray Charles, a native of Georgia, who recorded it in his 1960 on the album The Genius Hits the Road. It became the official state song of the State of Georgia in 1979. Written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics). Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or to a woman named "Georgia". Carmichael's 1965 autobiography, Sometimes I Wonder, records the origin: a friend, saxophonist and bandleader Frankie Trumbauer, suggested: "Why don't you write a song called 'Georgia'? Nobody lost much writing about the South." Thus, the son... Show Georgia on My Mind piano sheet
Hoagy Carmichael description
Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.
American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. More piano sheets by Hoagy Carmichael
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