Talk:Georgia on My Mind

message: "The song is referenced in The Beatles' "Back in the USSR", with the line "Georgia's always on my mind" referring to the Georgian SSR (Soviet Georgia)."  If McCartney was referring to Georgian SSR, he would not have been referencing Georgia, the song.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.236.206.35 (talk) 11:50, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not? There is such a thing as a pun. It seems to me very, very, very obvious that McCartney was overtly referring to the then Soviet republic and at the same time punning on the well-known standard. There really is no other plausible explanation for the line.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.104.0.234 (talk) 00:19, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I realise this is a signature Ray Charles song, but shouldn't the article mention Billie Holiday's, as well as Mildred Bailey's and Willie Nelson's versions? --Tridentinus 19:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Billie Holiday et al.

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 10:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: When did coldplay do georgia?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.230.203 (talk) 19:36, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Coldplay?

message: "Inspired by this blues version, Willie Nelson formally introduced the song to country audiences in 1978 as a #1 Country/Western hit."What exactly does that mean?  What would an 'informal introduction' of a song be?Ulmanor (talk) 00:42, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording… 

message: The lede currently says:
:Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael.[1] ... [T]he song is universally believed to have been written about the state.
First, this is self-contradictory -- how can it be universally believed one way when the same paragraph of Wikipedia asserts the opposite?
Second, the link [1] just goes to a page called "The Hoagy Carmichael Collection", with no assertion on that page that "Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister." This needs to be straightened out, using neutral wording and a more targeted link. Duoduoduo (talk) 14:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction in lede

message: Okay, I signed in to Wikipedia (after being away for three years) to clean up this article as it was shocking. The citations need proper referencing. Katana Geldar  07:47, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I think it's overstretching to say that The Beatles were alluding JUST to the state of Georgia in the song here. It was well known at the time that Stalin wasn't Russian, he was Georgian, as in the Republic; although actually saying so was a quick ticket to a gulag. After the verse that refers to the girls from the Ukraine, they are observing that the Soviet Union ALSO has girls from Georgia. The Republic of Georgia has some pretty women, too.
For the geographically challenged, the Republic of Georgia lies between the Caspian and Black Seas in the Caucasus Mountains, just north of Turkey on its northeastern border.
I always considered that line in Back in the USSR to be very clever wordplay by the boys from Liverpool. At this time, November 2014, McCartney's still alive. Why not ask him? DTavona (talk) 21:17, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural Significance 

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