Georgy Girl (song) number 98 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and number 14 on the easy listening chart. The New Seekers, a later reorganized group from 1969 with guitarist Keith Potger, released a version on the album "We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". In 1970, the film Georgy Girl was adapted for a short-lived Broadway musical, "Georgy". The tune was adapted as a commercial jingle for New York City metropolitan area's White Rock Beverages in 1966, and for Barbie dolls in the early 1980s. A German version was released by German singer Cornelia Froboess for her 1967 album "Die
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