Avoid confusion by writing the names of the guests you want to invite on the response card and having them check off a will attend or will not attend box. 3. Seating snafus. After the victory of compiling (and finalizing) your guest list comes the challenge of seating arrangements.
29 Black Music Milestones: Ray Charles' 'Georgia' Becomes State Song. While the song Georgia On My Mind had been around for thirty years when Ray Charles -- at the suggestion of his driver -- learned the words and recorded it in 1960, it wasn't until the piano man sang the tune that it became a hit... and the official Georgia state song. On March 7, 1979, Georgia On My Mind became Georgia's state song. To celebrate the moment, Charles was invited to perform it for state legislators, their wives and children at the state capital building in Atlanta.
Paul Anka discovered this song while visiting France and re-wrote the lyrics as My Way when he returned to New York. Anka says it was 3 a.m. on a rainy night when the words came to him. Anka, who was a very popular singer, pitched the song to Frank Sinatra, who recorded it on December 30, 1968. Anka's lyrics changed the meaning to be about a man looking back fondly on a life he lived on his own terms, and Sinatra's version became one of his signature songs.