Bing Crosby - Sweet Georgia Brown Lyrics






No gal made has got a shade on sweet Georgia Brown
Two left feet but oh, so neat has sweet Georgia Brown
They all sigh and want to die sweet Miss Georgia Brown
And I'll tell you just why, you know that I do not lie, not much

It's been said that she knocks 'em dead when she lands in town
Since she came, it's a shame how she cools 'em down
Fella's she can't get, must be fella's that she ain't met
Georgia claimed her, Georgia named her, sweet Georgia Brown

It's been said that she knocks 'em dead when she lands in town
Since she came, why it's a shame how she cools 'em down
Fella's she can't get, must be fella's that she ain't met
Georgia claimed her, Georgia named her, sweet Georgia
They call her sweet Miss Georgia Brown





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  1. b.... b....

    Only one Bing Crosby!

  2. Z.... P....

    Que chingue a su madre el america

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    Qué te pasa contigo ?

  3. o.... ....

    excelente gravação!!!

  4. J.... ....

    One of Bing's least appreciated talents was the ability to enunciate his scat lyrics so that you could easily understand each syllable. His voice may not have been the strongest, but he was a great singer.

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    +James What makes you think his voice wasn't the strongest? He was one the loudest singers when he wanted to be.

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    +Adam Smith You don't have to believe me. Why don't you ask Bing himself?

    "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years."

    "I don't see any purpose in trying to stretch something out that was once acceptable and that now is merely adequate, if that."

    I am a big Bing Crosby fan. I think he was unfairly tarnished for well-known reasons. But I don't think he could fill a theater with his voice to the extent that, say, an opera singer could. For a singer of light popular tunes, it was perfectly acceptable, as he said.

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    +James I think you confuse the 30's Bing with, say, the 50's-70's Bing. In the early period, Bing had a remarkably strong voice for a popular singer. You can hear this on recordings like "Home on the Range" (1938) or "Down by the River" (1935). To that extent, he did have a strong voice. I'm not, of course, comparing him to a opera baritone or some such thing.

    For a good analysis of Crosby's voice, I recommend Henry Pleasent's work "The Great American Popular Singers." In it, Pleasent's argues that no other singer has been so inadequately assessed, because Crosby's voice is at first blush "so devoid of any suggestion of accomplishment." As Bing Crosby's biographer Gary Gidden's notes, people were quite literally bamboozled by Bing's dismissal of his own talents, as your quotes from his autobiography Call me Lucky indicate. They are more or less staged to further his persona as an easygoing everyman.

    I also think describing jazz music or standards as 'light popular tunes" also misunderstands the nature of these songs as such.

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    +Adam Smith Bing almost lost his voice in the 30`s and had throat operations. I believe his first comeback song was "Pennies from heaven` around 1935 and his voice was different thereon. The Crosby sound started then. and was  the start of the crooners and his many imitators . Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dick Haymes. The list goes on and on, But there was only one Bing.

  5. H.... G....

    LOVE this is the best version

  6. j.... ....

    Thank you for this, the best recording of this song ever.

  7. a.... ....

    Bing really nails this one  :)

  8. J.... B....

    When was this recorded?

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    @brosro932 thanks

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    +John Briggs As far as I know, John , it was 1928

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    +Jack Rescoe bros932 probably nails it to1932, but I'm still stuck on 1928 with Whiteman./ I grew up with this music over 70 years ago,  My mother could have set you all straight.

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    +Jack Rescoe Thanks, Jack. I think the kid has promise.

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    John Briggs u

  9. B.... A....

    That's reminds me of the classic of Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

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    As far as I'm concerned, Bing was the best voice ever!!

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    Hard to argue with that. 

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    My mum's favorite singer, R.I.P. both mum and Crosby

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    Bing Crosby will never be beat!

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    I couldn't agree more.

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    Hes down with the jungle fever I see

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    Bing and Frank the best of the best why bing has been forgotten in favour of talentless modern singers is beyond me.
    won an oscar and many songs which we all know if we listen
    god bless bing and his voice !

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    @LazlosPlane as a teen i can clearly state, that Jazz music is incredible, and i don't listen to gems like this for “rebellion” or because it's “cool”, i listen to this because of the sheer ammount of talented artists that came up during this era. Don't generalize, and have a lovely day.

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    @Ian Mecklenburg Good for you Ian. Do you think you are typical or the great exception? Believe me, after 40 years of teaching music at the University level, you are the exception.

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    @LazlosPlane well that's pretty interesting! On a side note, i didnt expect for you to actually respond, given that your comment is 5+ years old, so this is quite the surprise for me.

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    @Ian Mecklenburg 5 years!!!! Tempus fugit, tempus fugit....

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    @LazlosPlane haha! I'm enjoying this (strangely)

  12. K.... B....

    Very nice music...

  13. A.... W....

    No wonder Sinatra found him so hard to knock of his perch.............. So many great versions of this song but this is a classic. Love it, cheers for posting. All the best from Bonnie Scotland ;-)

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    It's an extended dominant pattern followed by a sweet little relative minor interlude concluded with a chromatic descent.

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    The amount we've changed as a society in close to 100 years is amazing. The way we talk,act,dress. His voice is different then anyone's is today. It gives me chills when i hear these old 25-60's voices. I cant't imagine what it will be like in another 100 years.

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    I'm transcribing this song

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    One of Bings great recordings I never get tired of listening to him

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    Unemployment, depression, the rise of fascism, but hey through the 30s there was Bing!.

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    Medredith....
    You could apply that sentiment to any era.

  19. R.... B....

    Chelsea Quealey is not present on SGB. Eddie Lang, not likely. Joe Bishop is the Bb. As per
    a Harry Avery interview with both Eddie Stone and Geo. Thow in the early 70's.

  20. R.... J....

    This is nice to hear.

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    @Weendigo172 If loving Bing makes me a hipster, then goddammit, I am a snot-nosed, bespectacled hipster!

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    still a fan of his 30s tunes...fab

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    I love the way these recordings from the 1930s "chug" along.That downbeat always reminds me of cartoons from that era where they all bop along in time with the music.Just a silly thought.

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    Am I a hipster for thinking this man is a god among mere mortal singers?

  25. R.... H....

    I want to be the first to nominate this song for the next Fallout soundtrack

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    Fallout 5 here we go!

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    @Blink182plus44equ226 LOL LOL LOL..... Cheer's man! Merry Christmas!

  27. M.... B....

    @MWL4466 Sweeeeet valencias.

  28. M.... ....

    @Blink182plus44equ226 Ya, with a great big sack of valencia oranges!

  29. M.... B....

    Man this just makes me want to beat the hell out of my kids.

  30. Y.... M....

    pure thumbs up!

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    Very nice..!!! Gotta Love Vintage Xmas Card & Music.. Putting me in the Mood....lol Cheers, Dave

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    Great Actor, great Singer, great Man!

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    Most of America knows Bing the Movie Star... especially, as years go by, for "White Christmas..."
    Very few know that it was his early jazz singing (in the early days of jazz) that put him on the map, and got him to Hollywood. With the exceptions of Armstrong, and perhaps Jolson, the most seminal male singer this country has ever produced.

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    Good-looking, multi-talented, rich, famous:

    He got the drawers!!!

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    @LordMgls If you're asking about when this version was recorded, it was recorded on April 15, 1932. There's actually another take that's been released, but I find this one to be much better.

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    That scat is awesome

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    @bingfan22 when??

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    Anyone know the song Evelina sung by Bing sometime in his career? I can't find it anywhere.

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    Festina_Lente It sure sounds like Eddie to my ears. Bing was very upset when Eddie Lang died from complications from a toncillectomy. Bing used the incomparable Johnny Smith in his later years on guitar.

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    Yeeeesss!
    Eddie was there!

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    Muted trombone! How great...and is the guitar Eddie Lang?

  41. t.... ....

    I have several Versions of this, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Chris Barber but my favourite is Acker Bilks.

  42. b.... ....

    Great Jaaaaaaaaazz

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    By the way, Fats Waller might have sung this tune to, don't you think so ? But I've found nothing on youtube :/

  44. T.... ....

    I just can't help myself, got to whistle when I hear this tune \o/

  45. R.... ....

    Ella Fitzgerald nailed this song.
    Ol Bing did it for years as well.

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    Nice singer for a super-song, but folks, try the performing of Jerry Lee Lewis. It could make a dead man be alive again !!

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    To "bingcrosby1903", this recording was made with the Isham Jones orchestra. It is certainly one of my favorite Crosby recordings. I love the scat solo he does after the instrumental break.

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    Wonderful!

  49. M.... ....

    This is da best version