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Sweet Georgia Brown - Who wrote it?

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Joey Goldstein

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Apr 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/25/99
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Any body know who wrote Sweet Georgia Brown?

Music and lyrics please.

TIA


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Joey Goldstein

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Apr 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/25/99
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Joey Goldstein wrote:
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> Any body know who wrote Sweet Georgia Brown?
>
> Music and lyrics please.
>
> TIA
>

So far, Wesley dick has suggested that his uncle Sidney Arodin, who also
wrote Up A Lazy River, might be the culprit. Nice family tree Wes! (BTW
I don't use BIAB. I've got a copy though. Maybe I'll install it again sometime.)

But I found a couple of web pages that suggest otherwise.

One page says that the Beatles recorded it on a club date in 1964 and
that the composers/lyricists are Ben Bernie/Maceo Pinkard.

Another says Kenneth Casey/Maceo Pinkard.

That's two for Pinkard so far.

Bill Kodadek

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Apr 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/26/99
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Words and music by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey. So
says the "Difinitive Jazz Collection" Hal Leonard pub.

I wonder if one (or more) of these guys getting credit is doing so
because he was the original publisher.

Bill

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:57:56 -0400, Joey Goldstein
<nos...@nowhere.net> wrote:

>Any body know who wrote Sweet Georgia Brown?
>
>Music and lyrics please.
>
>TIA
>
>

Joey Goldstein

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Apr 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/26/99
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Thanks Bill

Clkjgcm

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May 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/7/99
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Sweet Georgia Brown was written in 1925 by Bernie and Pinkard.
You can go to the links page a Guitar Corps and there you'll will find a link
for a Database to BMI. Just tpe in the name of the song and wait for the info.

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/guitarcorps/index.html
Later
Cliff

Drjazztb

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May 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/8/99
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Sorry, Hoagy Carmichael wrote "Up The Lazy River?

Gerry

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May 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/8/99
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In a data base I've compiled from various fakebook's tables of contents
I have it down as written by Bernie/Pinkard. This is from the Real
Book Volume II.

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Wesley Clark Dick

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May 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/8/99
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Correction, please. My uncle Sidney Arodin (nee Arnondin) wrote Lazy
River. Hoagy made a change of one word in the original lyrics (title)
and Sid gave him credit for the lyrics. Check out my web site at
http://www.Geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/1030/Sidney.html for a
little background.

Wes Dick

P.S. I was also told by several of his old cronies that he also wrote
Sweet Georgia Brown and sold it for $25 and a bottle of cheap vino.
Sid was an alcoholic.

Gerry

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May 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/9/99
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In article <3734cbc9...@news.gs.verio.net>, Wesley Clark Dick
<wiz...@gs.verio.net> wrote:

> Correction, please. My uncle Sidney Arodin (nee Arnondin) wrote Lazy
> River. Hoagy made a change of one word in the original lyrics (title)
> and Sid gave him credit for the lyrics.

So credit for the lyrics, duly accorded, go to Hoagy Carmichael.

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