Georgia on my Mind by Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGzE5KfCioEasily the finest recording of one of the finest songs ever written. Thanks to Ray Charles for his amazing performance. And thanks to Hoagy Charmichael and Stuart Gorrell for composing this outstanding piece of music. It continues to bless my ears and my heart nearly a century hence.
(According to Wikipedia) It has been asserted that Hoagy Carmichael wrote the song about his sister, Georgia. But Carmichael wrote in his second autobiography
Sometimes I Wonder that saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer told him he should write a song about the state of Georgia. He jokingly volunteered the first two words, "Georgia, Georgia...," which Carmichael ended up using while working on the song with his roommate, Stuart Gorrell. Gorrell, who wrote the lyrics, stated he wrote the lyrics about Carmichael’s sister. Gorrell's name was absent from the copyright, but Carmichael sent him royalty checks anyway.
