Lisa Grossman Liu

Sep 13, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Steve Baughman |Adam Perlmutter |Maurice Tani |Lisa Grossman Liu

The beloved standard “Sweet Georgia Brown” was written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey. The inspiration for the song reportedly struck when Bernie met a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Dr. George Thaddeus Brown, in New York City. Brown mentioned that the Georgia General Assembly declared his daughter, who had been born in 1911, should be named Georgia after the state.