| "Georgy Girl" | ||||
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| Single by The Seekers | ||||
| B-side | "The Last Thing on My Mind" | |||
| Released | 1966 | |||
| Format | 7" 45rpm | |||
| Genre | Pop/Rock | |||
| Length | 2:21 | |||
| Label | EMI Columbia DB 8134 | |||
| Writer(s) | Tom Springfield (music) Jim Dale (lyrics) |
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"Georgy Girl", written by Tom Springfield (music) and Jim Dale (lyrics), is the title song performed by The Seekers for the the film of the same name. Across late 1966 and early 1967, the song became a #1 Australian hit and a #3 UK hit. In the United States, it proved to be the Seekers' highest charting single, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, prompting the Seekers' UK album Come the Day to be retitled Georgy Girl for its American release.
The song is heard at both the beginning and end of the film, with markedly different lyrics (and with different lyrics again to those in the commercially released version). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
In 1970, the film was adapted for a short-lived Broadway musical of the same name.
The tune was adapted as a commercial jingle for NYC metropolitan area White Rock Beverages in 1966, and for Barbie dolls in the early 1980s.
In The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen", Homer twice sings the song with the lyrics "Heyyy thereeee, blimpy boy! Flying through the sky so fancy free!".[1] "Georgy Girl" is also parodied in the 13th-season episode "Half-Decent Proposal", when Artie Ziff creates a device to convert modem noises into easy-listening music.