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.
Midnight Train To Georgia was not only a #1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B, but also a #10 on the UK Singles chart. It garnered the group the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance and was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. It is considered Gladys Knight's signature song.