All Our Sorrows We’ll Leave Far Behind Us There…
By srbissette on February 9th, 2010Posted In: News
Wake Up, Georgy Girl!
A Wee Change of Pace…
Appropo of nothing, save two old hippies catching up with one another, I reckon, Jim Van Bebber sent me a video version of the tune ‘Georgy Girl’ via Facebook, which planted that venerable Seekers tune in my noggin all day, so here you go: two flashback videos from the farewell concert of the great Australian group The Seekers, playing live on July 7, 1968 in London.
“A World of Our Own” was composed by Tom Springfield and originally recorded at Abbey Road Studios (yes, that Abbey Road), London in 1965; “Georgy Girl” was composed by Springfield and actor/composer Jim Dale for the 1966 movie Georgy Girl, which I also have very fond, bittersweet memories of.
I can’t even begin to articulate the wealth of personal associations I have with both of these songs, which I first heard around the age of ten years old or so…
Apologies for the drift.
Just received BLUR 1 in the post yesterday, and I’ve already conquered eighty-some pages. Based on your contentions, I’ve added Children of the Corn 666, Arlington Road, The Rage: Carrie 2, and This is My Father (amongst others) to my queue. I find it disheartening that other comics pros gave you grief for your forrays into the world of film critique. Loved what I’ve read thus far, in particular the in depth dissection of The Blair Witch phenomena, and the bemused analysis of the Adam Sandler craze. Eventually, each BLUR shall be mine.
Thanks, Steve.
Wow, thank you, Drexell! You can order them all from me directly, or from http://www.blackcoatpress.com — I really appreciate your jumping in with this, as I’m always happy when the BLUR series finds another reader. I’m proud of that body of critical writing, and am presently preparing a new volume of BLUR (Vol. 6) later this winter for spring release!
I never saw Georgy Girl (note spelling) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060453/ – but now I may have to: Charlotte Rampling!
“Georgy Girl” is worth seeing and has a stellar cast. In 1966–1967 the film had an extended run at a cinema near the campus of the University of Texas and a local radio station ran a contest: free tix to the ten listeners who could send in the most anagrams (with real words) of “Georgy Girl.” Later they announced that just about every submission began with “orgy.”
GEORGY GIRL is a peach, and still surprising in ways its immediate contemporaries (like MORGAN, which seemed the more adventurous film at the time) no longer are.
And yes, Roger — a very young Charlotte Rampling at that! Track it down, and enjoy!
Well, I’ve come up with girly gorge and logy rigger, anybody else?
PS: Roger, thanks for the spell check on GEORGY GIRL — I should have checked that this AM, but neglected to. I’ve just gone back into the post and corrected that.
Bill, first volley of anagrams — Score!
The ’60s. I was a kid watching from the sidelines. It never bothered me that I couldn’t take part in the almost-revolution until, years later, I watched the forgotten Richard Dreyfuss movie, THE BIG FIX. There were some nostalgic scenes in that movie that had me almost crying. Not just for the images of what might have been if only we’d gone that next step into actual revolution, but that I had just been a bit too young to lend a hand in that feeble attempt to tear down the system and start over with something sane.
Alas.
I cheated and used http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ :
Rigger Logy
Leggy Rigor
Gorge Girly
Rile Groggy
Lire Groggy
Re Groggily
Egg Girly Or
Leggy Rig Or
Yegg Girl Or
Leg Rig Orgy
Leg Rig Gory
Leg Rig Gyro
Gel Rig Orgy
Gel Rig Gory
Gel Rig Gyro
Erg Girly Go
Erg Rig Logy
Grey Girl Go
Grey Rig Log
Lye Grog Rig
Re Giggly Or
Re Gig Glory
Err Gig Logy
Ye Grog Girl
I think we have a winner! Now, if this were only 1966….
I think that I misremembered the contest, now that I look at the stunning array of anagrams. It must have been “Using the letters that appear in ‘Georgy Girl,” how many words can you come up with?” That seems more in keeping with the abilities of beer-sodden undergranduates.