Georgy Girl (song) film "Born Free". The song became a hit in late 1966 and early 1967, reaching number one in Australia and number three in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was the Seekers' highest charting single, reaching number one on the "Cash Box" Top 100. "Georgy Girl" reaced number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100, I'm a Believer by The Monkees, kept the song from number one. The song US success prompted the Seekers' British album "Come the Day" to be retitled "Georgy Girl" for its American release. In 1967, an instrumental version by the Baja Marimba Band reached
The Ship Who Sang in a 2004 interview. "I remember reading a story about a woman searching for her son's brain, it had been used for an autopilot on an ore ship and she wanted to find it and give it surcease. And I thought what if severely disabled people were given a chance to become starships? So that's how "The Ship Who Sang" was born." Anne McCaffrey had published two stories when she attended her first Milford Writer's Workshop in 1959. Afterward she worked on "The Ship Who Sang", which was published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" (Apr 1961) and