Georgy Girl (song)

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"Georgy Girl"
Georgy Girl - The Seekers.jpg
Single by The Seekers
from the album Come the Day
B-side"The Last Thing on My Mind" (Europe)
"When The Stars Begin To Fall" (non-Europe)
Released10 October 1966
GenrePop rock, folk
Length2:21
LabelEMI Columbia (DB 8134) (UK)
EMI Capitol (5756) (US)
Composer(s)Tom Springfield
Lyricist(s)Jim Dale
The Seekers singles chronology
"Morningtown Ride"
(1966) 		"Georgy Girl"
(1966) 		"When Will the Good Apples Fall"
(1966)
Audio
"Georgy Girl (remaster)" on YouTube

"Georgy Girl" is a song by the Australian pop/folk music group The Seekers. It was used as the title song for the 1966 film of the same title. Tom Springfield, who had written "I'll Never Find Another You", composed the music and Jim Dale supplied the lyrics. The song is heard at both the beginning and end of the film, with markedly different lyrics (and with different lyrics again from those in the commercially released version). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The song became a hit in late 1966 and early 1967, reaching number one in Australia and number three in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was the Seekers' highest charting single, reaching number one on the Cash Box Top 100. "Georgy Girl" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100; "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees, kept the song from number one.[1] The song's US success prompted the Seekers' British album Come the Day to be retitled Georgy Girl for its American release.

Chart history[]

Cover versions[]

In 1967, an instrumental version by the Baja Marimba Band reached number 98 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 14 on the easy listening chart.

The New Seekers, a reorganized group from 1969 with guitarist Keith Potger, released a version of the song on the UK version of the album We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.

The "Georgy Girl" song and melody appear in a reworked version with new lyrics, in the early 1980's Barbie doll commercials such as Beauty Secrets Barbie and Angel Face Barbie, among others.

References[]

  1. ^ "Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
  2. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1967-02-11. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
  3. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Georgy Girl". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  4. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 28 April 1967
  5. ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  6. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  7. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 2/18/67". tropicalglen.com.
  8. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles of 1967". Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  9. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1967/Top 100 Songs of 1967". musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  10. ^ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/1967YESP.html Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 23, 1967
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