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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 film of the same name. Across late 1966 and early 1967, the song became a #1 Australian hit and a #3 British hit. In the United States, it proved to be the Seekers' highest charting single, reaching #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and prompting the Seekers' British album ''Come the Day'' to be retitled ''Georgy Girl'' for its American release. It was listed at 36 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's "500 Greatest Pop Songs of all time" in 2002. 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. An instrumental cover by the Baja Marimba Band reached US #98 pop, #14 easy listening in 1967. The New Seekers released a version on the album ''We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing'' (1972). In 1970, the film was adapted for a short-lived Broadway musical ''Georgy.'' ==Cover versions and quotations== 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 "Hey there, blimpy boy! Flying through the sky so fancy free!".〔http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F02.html〕 "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. The song was used during an episode of Get a Life called "Chris Moves Out". Georgy Girl is referenced in the Ron Sexsmith Song 'In This Love' from his 1991 album 'Grand Opera Lane' when he sings " It's just like that old movie song, the one about the Georgy girl." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Georgy Girl (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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