Jim Dale He trained as a dancer for six years, before his debut as a stage comic in 1951. He did two years of national service in the Royal Air Force. As a songwriter, Dale is best remembered as the lyricist for the film theme "Georgy Girl", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1966. The song (performed by the Seekers) reached number 2 in the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart the following year, it also made number 3 in Dale's native UK and Number 1
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Originally serialised in seven installments in two of Gakken's secondary school student-aimed magazines, beginning in "Chūgaku Sannen Course" in November 1965 and ending in "Taka Ichi Course" in May 1966, and first published as a book in 1967 by Kadokawa Shoten, it has gone on to become one of Tsutsui's most popular works and has been reinterpreted in other media many times, the most famous internationally being a 1983 live action film directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi and a 2006 traditional animation film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The original novel was first published in English