![]() Home Football Game in November BOA Regional in St. ![]() Louis Canton Friendship Festival Standstill ![]() Homecoming Post-Game Show (both Sivill and Loper on "solo")īOA Regional in St. Hammond - Home Football Game, Fall '88 Johnson - Home Football Game 11/26/88 (video of Wranglers Danceline) Karl Hammond Eric Johnson (1-2 performances) To honor the many performances of "Georgia On My Mind" by the Marching Leathernecks, Dale Hopper.the man who made this song a tradition at Western Illinois University, and the many Georgia Soloists over the last 42 years, here is a list of the soloists, as well as links to performances of the song throughout the years. The front line of the band faces away from the crowd for this portion of the song, before turning around in the middle and letting loose with a wall of sound. The first part of the song includes a trumpet solo performed by a annually-chosen member of the Marching Leathernecks trumpet section and is a position of honor. Usually, "Georgia" is performed with the band forming two lines in front of the field/performance area. But it was Willie Nelson who had a substantial hit with it when he topped Billboard’s Country and Western chart in 1978 and won the song a second Grammy.Since 1981, the Marching Leathernecks have "wowed" audiences with their rendition of "Georgia On My Mind" as arranged by longtime band director Dale Hopper. That didn’t stop “Georgia on My Mind” becoming so indelibly linked to the southern state that in 1979 the relationship was formalised when the Georgia House of Representatives declared it the official state song.Ĭharles’s 1960 hit ushered in a plethora of covers, including The Band’s 1976 endorsement single for presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter. “It was just a beautiful, romantic melody.” “I’ve never known a lady named Georgia . . . and I wasn’t dreaming of the state . . . even though I was born there,” he said. Yet according to his 1978 autobiography, Brother Ray, neither woman nor state were on his mind when he recorded the song. Released as a single, it reached No 1 in November 1960 and won a Grammy Award.Ĭharles’s performance wrung every ounce out of the song’s yearning-for-home theme his live renditions were even more moving. His first LP for his new label ABC-Paramount was The Genius Hits the Road, a 12-track concept album themed on places in the US “Georgia on My Mind”, the standout track, was sandwiched between “Alabamy Bound” and “Basin Street Blues”. Rising star Ray Charles had left Atlantic Records in order to gain greater artistic control, higher royalties and mainstream acceptance at a time when albums were starting to outsell singles. Carmichael, who ended up acting and writing music for the TV western series Laramie, once told Downbeat magazine: “After rock and roll started, I never even got a phone call from an A & R man about anything.”īut in 1960 the song’s fortunes changed. The drummer Gene Krupa and his orchestra reached No 17 in 1941 with Anita O’Day on vocals but the rock-and-roll 1950s were a barren period for both the song and its composer. Although many versions followed, hits proved elusive. His equally jazzy version made the US top 10 in 1931, as did Mildred Bailey’s recording that same year. Auerdem: Mehr Infos zu Ray Charles und dem Album King Of Cool - The Genius Of Ray. It is the cornetist/trumpeter’s last-known session: Biederbecke, an alcoholic, died the following year at the age of 28.īut it was the originator of the idea for the song, Trumbauer, who had the first hit with it. Den Song Georgia On My Mind jetzt als kostenloses Video ansehen. This “Georgia” mixes sentiment and hot jazz, features Carmichael’s vocals and, towards the end, a short eight-bar break from his friend Bix Beiderbecke. After all, he reasoned: “Nobody ever lost money writing songs about the South.”Ĭarmichael recorded the song in September 1930. According to his biographer, Richard M Sudhalter, it was the saxophonist Frank Trumbauer who suggested Georgia as a subject. What’s more, it seems that the idea for the song wasn’t even his. Yet Indiana-raised Carmichael had never set foot in Georgia when he composed the tune. But combine Stuart Gorrell’s lyrics with Hoagy Carmichael’s music and the sense of place becomes palpable. Certainly, the line “Other arms reach out to me, other eyes smile tenderly” suggests a woman (or man) might be involved. The languid, almost sensuous lyrics of “Georgia on My Mind” could as easily be about a lover as the southern US state the 1930 song celebrates.
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