Georgy Girl (song) Georgy Girl (song) "Georgy Girl" is a song by the Australian folk music group the Seekers. It was used as the title song for the 1966 film of the same name. Tom Springfield, who had written "I'll Never Find Another You", composed the music and Jim Dale supplied the lyrics. The song is heard at both the beginning and end of the film, with markedly different lyrics (and with different lyrics again from those in the commercially released version). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost the Oscar to the theme song from the
Jim Dale American market (for which he received two Grammy Awards out of six nominations) and the ABC series "Pushing Daisies" (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film "Pete's Dragon" (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in "" (1973). As a lyricist, Dale was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for the song "Georgy Girl", the theme for the 1966 film of the same name. Dale was born James Smith to William Henry and Miriam Jean (née Wells) Smith in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Kettering Grammar School.