Learn to play the gorgeous 'Georgia' easily on Harmonica now

Today we are going to learn "Georgia on My Mind" in F, C and G on your C harmonica - that's 12th, 1st and 2nd positions. 'The greatest song of all time'. This is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell and first recorded that year by Hoagy Carmichael.

It has often been associated with Ray Charles, a native of the U. S. state of Georgia, who recorded it for his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road.

In 1979, the State of Georgia designated Ray Charles's version the official state song. 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, who wrote the lyrics. Gorrell's name was absent from the copyright, but Carmichael sent him royalty checks anyway.