He'd Make Make You Feel So Good

[infrogmation]

We lost a great this week.



music legend Ray Charles dies

Rembered

In this interest of accuracy, I'll note that Charles did great performances and recordings of the tune "Georgia On My Mind", but contrary to some media obits I've heard, the tune was written by the great Hoagy Carmichael, not the great Ray Charles.

For pointing this out, I expect to get a fresh batch of hate mail and angry replies, calling me "pathetic", "stupid", "cruel" and "pro-terrorist". ...Or does that only happen when one tries to be accurate in rembering a prominent Republican?

Comments

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Indeed: since he's one of the few hometown heroes, there's a great collection (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/hoagy-idx.pl?type=boolean&idno=&rgn=ITEMHEAD&operator1=And&q1=georgia&q2=ATM&size=First+30&submit=Search) of Carmichael memorabilia here.

[testcase.livejournal.com]

I bet you're french too......

[ragtimematt.livejournal.com]

I'll write you no hate mail. I am not that impressed by Ray Charles (nor any prominent republicans), and as far as Georgia On My Mind is concerned, my money is on Red McKenzie.

hate mail and angry replies

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

For the record, this response to my posting Reagan's own words In Memoriam was not of course from the nifty folks who read my own LJ but from posting it elsewhere... my most amusing suprise was getting that in the "liberal" LJ community, in a post that the moderater then removed. Ack.