A Georgian Breeze

[Jody Stecher]

I had a look this morning at the new entries to The Works Of Joe Morley. I took a fancy to "A Georgian Breeze" but was puzzled by the title. The Georgian era is usually said to have ended in 1830 and this Banjo Solo is not in the musical style of the 18th and early 19th century. Neither does it resemble the music of Georgia in the Caucasas. "Georgian" is not a word that usually gets applied to things from the state of Georgia in the American south. It's usually just plain "Georgia" as in Georgia Peach, Georgia Crawl, Georgia Railroad I Am Bound, etc. People from the state of Georgia *are* called Georgians but that meaning would suggest that Morley was celebrating a fart from a member of the Georgia Citizenry.  So I thought I'd search what some idiot pundit recently, with no ironic intent,  pronounced as  "the inner nit". A Google Search did not produce my answer as to what Joe Morley had in mind but I did find this breathless rendition by Bert Bassett. It was posted in September and has had only 7 views. I like the Jumbo Record label. 

A GEORGIAN BREEZE by Bert Bassett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbklMB-WGrw

[thereallyniceman]

Having checked the book of equine pedigrees I notice that "GEORGIAN BREEZE" is a registered name for a racehorse.... ?????

[Jody Stecher]

NOW we're gettin' somewhere. If the real title is "Georgian Breeze" then the horse is certainly the answer to my question. But it's listed on the record label as "A Georgian Breeze", a title of three words, rather than two. Is there a Morley manuscript showing the title in his own hand?

thereallyniceman said:

Having checked the book of equine pedigrees I notice that "GEORGIAN BREEZE" is a registered name for a racehorse.... ?????

[Trapdoor2]

Heah in the South, we rarely use the adjective "Georgian", to describe folks from Georgia but we do use the noun to name them. Oh and BTW, it is properly pronounced "JAW-jah", unless you use the less PC pronunciation of "cracker". ;-)

I might answer to "Alabamian" but if I were in Georgia and caught a breeze from the west, I would call it "A Breeze From Alabama" ;-)

[Shawn McSweeny]

Morley spent considerabe time in Bath, noted for its abundance of Georgian architecture. So maybe this tune came to him as he was strolling past its most Georgian of crescents on a breezy day.

But Morley had more trouble naming pieces than composing them, so more likely the title was penned by a publishing house hack unfamiliar with colloquial American terms, who erroneously applied English grammar convention to "Georgia", creating the adjective "Georgian", intending it to mean  "of or from Georgia".  An error not repeated when "Georgia Walkround" was published, by the way. 

[Jody Stecher]

Thanks to all for their ideas. It's a nice tune.