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
The Girl from Ipanema as by Peggy Lee (1964), Ella Fitzgerald and The Supremes (1965), Shirley Bassey (1966) and Eartha Kitt (1974). Petula Clark sang it in 1977 on The Muppet Show. Crystal Waters recorded her version in 1996 for the various artists Red Hot Chili Pepper in Rio compilation and was later included on her 1998 greatest hits set. Diana Krall recorded another version on her 2009 album "Quiet Nights". A parody of the song, with different lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim, is entitled "The Boy From...". Another parody is "The Girl With Emphysema" by comedian Bob Rivers. The phrase "Boy from Ipanema"