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
Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish Ala Bahma. Both cartoons are now in the public domain. In 1960 the song was recorded in 1960 by lounge artist Martin Denny. In 1962 country guitarist Chet Atkins released a Nashville Sound instrumental version. Susannah McCorkle recorded it in 1976 for her first album "The Music of Harry Warren". Bette Midler sang the song in the 1991 film, "For The Boys". Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish "(The) Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" was a novelty song written by Harry Warren, Al Dubin, and Johnny Mercer. In an Orientalist jazz musical style and with a Turquesque confusion of