"Georgia Camp Meeting", originally published as "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" is a ragtime cake-Walk was composed in 1897 by Frederick Allen Mills (who wrote under the name Kerry Mills) who also composed "Red Wing", "Whistling Rufus" and his tribute to the 1904 World’s Fair, “Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis”. Kerry Mills (1869-1948) published the song in 1897 to be played as a cakewalk, two-step or polka. Mills was "steeped in the strong march tradition of the 19th century" and others identify that he helped bridge the two-step dance and the emerging styles of cakewalk and early ragtime. A cake walk is a type of tune associated with a popular dance craze which probably entered southern tradition around the turn of the century. The colony of Georgia was named in honor of King George II in 1732. The tune was recorded by Tump Spangler on The Old Virginia Fiddlers:...Patrick County, Virginia, Leake County Revelers on Saturday Night Breakdown: 1927-1930 Recordings (1975), Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy on A Henry Reed Reunion (2002) and John Phillip Sousa and band on Cakewalks, Rags and Blues (1908).