Jerry Lee Lewis - Georgia on my Mind video free download


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Live in London, in 1983.

GEORGIA ON MY MIND:

"Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Stuart Gorrell (lyrics) and Hoagy Carmichael (music). It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael [1]. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to be referring either to the state or to a woman named "Georgia." Carmichael's 1965 autobiography, Sometimes I Wonder, records the origin: a friend suggested: "Why don't you write a song called 'Georgia?' Nobody lost much writing about the South."

The song is perhaps best known as sung by Ray Charles, who recorded the song in 1960 on the album The Genius Hits the Road. It became Georgia's state song in 1979.

The song has been covered by many artists, significant among them: Glenn Miller, Willie Nelson, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nat Gonella and his Georgians, The Band, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Righteous Brothers, Van Morrison, Coldplay, Hoagy Carmichael (with Bix Beiderbecke), and the Spencer Davis Group (with Steve Winwood on vocals) among others.

Comments

10 years ago

François Gaspard

so much better than Charles version ... THE KILLER

10 years ago

net60man

Them fighting them me listening

11 years ago

Gregory jimi

Killing in the name of... Jerry Lee!

12 years ago

Norberto Carena

Para mi la mejor version de este tema, hermoso!

12 years ago

Patrick Buckles

For a start, and truly obvious, Ray Charles did this better. And RAP sucks, big time!

12 years ago

net60man

See the fingers play by their own nearly.

12 years ago

John Benn

I agree 100%

13 years ago

drewangolf

Jerry Lee sure was a one-off!

13 years ago

MrWeedpatch

aint nobody like the killer.........

13 years ago

Diste1939

Great rendition of a classic!

13 years ago

net60man

I like him he is very good.

13 years ago

François Gaspard

This guy can definitively sing what he wants ... Great !

14 years ago

Pumarisi124

It's just amazing how each and every song Jerry Lee covers is superb. He never disappoints and is second to NONE.

14 years ago

Vladimir Goglidze

I from Georgia from Tbilisi Jerry Lee Genius. Viva GEORGIA !!!!!! Drobny 2008

14 years ago

waqtube

I love Jerry Lee Lewis version more than anyone else I have this song on CD it knocks me out each time I listen to it Waq

15 years ago

fogysmoldees

I think that Jerry Lee Lewis is a very skilled piano player. But, I've noticed that Ray Charles put his stamp on this song and that most artists who have played "Georgia on My Mind" play it in the same way that Charles played it, which is different than how Hoagy Carmichael wrote the music. Listen to covers of this song before 1960 and you'll see what I mean.

15 years ago

Patrick Buckles

He's not "kicking" anyone's ass, he's got his version, it's good, simple as that.

16 years ago

CakesNshit

A bit too countryish for my taste, good singer none the less.

16 years ago

NewJerusalem1979

Nobody has ever had such a command over a piano like that man.

16 years ago

kevin robishaw

bad motherfucker1!!

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