USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1960, Ray Charles, a native of Georgia, recorded a version of the song that went to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100. Charles’ hit rendition would become the most widely-known version of the tune from this time on.

Detailed explanation-2: -The album’s first single, Nelson’s passionate reading of the Hoagy Carmichael classic “Georgia on My Mind, ” was released March 2nd, 1978, 42 years ago today.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today its “Georgia on My Mind” by Ray Charles. In 1960, when Ray Charles reprised this ballad, he put a totally new spin on the popular American song. He sang about the state of Georgia where he grew up, a segregationist state whose racist policies he was still subject to at the time.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Georgia on My Mind” is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell and first recorded that same year by Hoagy Carmichael.

Detailed explanation-5: -The story goes that he and his room-mate, a banker named Stuart Gorrell, were looking out of the window at the wet weather and decided to write a song together about the warmer southern state. However Carmichael had a sister named Georgia and it’s possible the song is about her.