"Georgy Girl" is a song by the Australian pop/folk music group

The Seekers The Seekers were an Australian folk music, folk-influenced pop music, pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the Un ...

. 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 "I'll Never Find Another You" is a 1964 single by The Seekers, which reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1965. It was The Seekers' first UK-released single, and it was the second-best-selling of 1965 in the UK. The song was also popu ...

", 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

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but the prize went to "Born Free". 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. The song's U.S. success prompted the Seekers' British album ''Come the Day'' to be retitled ''Georgy Girl'' for its American release.

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

In 1966,

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recorded a cover of this song as well, which did not chart as well as the original song. It was performed by the sisters in '' The Lawrence Welk Show''. 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''. In 1971

Saori Minami (Real Name: Akemi Shinoyama (篠山明美), née, Akemi Uchima (内間明美); Christian Name: Cynthia) is a Japanese retired J-pop singer-songwriter. She was born in Okinawa on July 2, 1954. In the 1970s, and for a brief 6 years from 19911997 ...

recorded a cover of the song for her second album ''Shiokaze No Melody''. The "Georgy Girl" song and melody appear in a reworked version with new lyrics in the early 1980s Barbie doll commercials such as Beauty Secrets Barbie and Angel Face Barbie, among others.

References

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