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Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as television, microphones, and sound recordings.

Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard Carmichael[1]

(1899-11-22)November 22, 1899
Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.

December 27, 1981(1981-12-27) (aged 82)

Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
  • Musician
  • composer
  • songwriter
  • actor
  • lawyer

1918–1981

Republican

  • Ruth Meinardi
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1936; div. 1955)​
  • ​
    (m. 1977)​

2

Musical films, popular songs

  • Piano
  • vocals

hoagy.com

Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing four of the most-recorded American songs of all time: "Stardust" (lyrics by Mitchell Parish), "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You" (lyrics by Ned Washington), and "Heart and Soul" (lyrics by Frank Loesser).[2] He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on "Lazybones" and "Skylark". Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky" was an Academy Award nominee in 1946, from Canyon Passage, in which he co-starred as a musician riding a mule. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening", with lyrics by Mercer, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951. Carmichael also appeared as a character actor and musical performer in 14 films, hosted three musical-variety radio programs, performed on television, and wrote two autobiographies.

Later life and death[edit]

Carmichael married Wanda McKay in 1977. He died of a heart attack at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, on December 27, 1981, at age 82. His remains are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana.[84][85][86][87]

1944–45 V-Disc Sessions (Totem, 1985)

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At Home with Hoagy (Take Two, 1982)

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Hoagy Carmichael (RCA International, 1981)

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Hoagy Carmichael: Old Buttermilk Sky (Collector's Choice, 1999)

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(Pacific Jazz, 1957)[111]

Hoagy Sings Carmichael

Star Dust, 1927–32 (Historical, 1982)

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The Stardust Road (MCA, 1982)

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Stardust and Much More (Bluebird, 1989)

Stardust Melody: Carmichael and Friends (RCA, 2002)

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The Classic Hoagy Carmichael ( and the Smithsonian Institution's Collection of Recordings, 1988)[113]

Indiana Historical Society

The Hoagy Carmichael Songbook (RCA Bluebird, 1990)

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Stardust: The Jazz Giants Play Hoagy Carmichael (Prestige, 1997)

[110]

Mr. Music Master (Naxos, 2002)

Hoagy Carmichael in Person 1925–1955 (Avid, 2006)

The First of the Singer Songwriters (JSP, 2008)

The Stardust Road (1946)

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Sometimes I Wonder: The Story of Hoagy Carmichael (1965)

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Carmichael wrote two autobiographies that Da Capo Press combined into a single volume for a paperback, published in 1999:[114]

his sister

Martha Carmichael Clayton

The Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University

. Indiana University Marching Hundred. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

"Audio"

Calkin, Graham. . Jpgr.co.uk. Retrieved September 29, 2012.

"Somewhere In England"

Carmichael, Hoagy (1946). The Stardust Road. New York: Rinehart and Company.

Carmichael, Hoagy, and J.P. Miller (1957). Hoagy Carmichael's Songs for Children. New York: Golden Press.  15369706.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

OCLC

Carmichael, Hoagy, and (1999). The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80899-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Stephen Longstreet

Crystal Gayle Sings The Heart & Soul of Hoagy Carmichael. worldcat.org.  43114717.

OCLC

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"Details for I'm A Cranky Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank – Bing Crosby"

. Georgia.gov. Archived from the original on May 24, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

"Georgia Facts and Symbols"

Giddins, Gary (June 25, 1979). . New York. Retrieved December 6, 2016.

"Newport: Choices and More Choices"

Ginell, Richard S. . AllMusic. Retrieved September 29, 2012.

"Somewhere in England–George Harrison : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards"

Gugin, Linda C.; St. Clair, James E., eds. (2015). Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press.  978-0-87195-387-2.

ISBN

Hasse, John Edward (1988). The Classic Hoagy Carmichael. Indianapolis, Ind., and Washington, D.C.: Indiana Historical Society and Smithsonian Collection Recordings. p. 5.  978-0-87195-013-0. (Booklet issued with sound recordings of the same title.)

ISBN

. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael"

. Indiana Historical Bureau. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael"

. Songwriters' Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael"

. Indiana University (IU Digital Library). Retrieved December 6, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael Collection"

. Indiana University. November 18, 2002. Retrieved December 6, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael Collection: Timeline of Hoagy Carmichael's Life"

. Indiana University (IU Digital Library). Retrieved December 6, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael Collection: Virtual Tour of the Hoagy Carmichael Room"

. Visit Bloomington. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael Landmark Sculpture"

. Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

"Hoagy Carmichael Recordings"

. Rockabilly.nl. Retrieved February 12, 2008.

"Hong Kong Blues"

(PDF). Indiana University Athletics. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

"Indiana, Our Indiana Hail to Old IU Indiana Fight Chimes of Indiana"

Kennedy, Rick (Summer 1994a). "Star Dust Memories: Hoagy Carmichael and Indiana's Gennett Records". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. 6 (3). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 4–9.

Kennedy, Rick (1994b). . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33136-6.

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz

(2008). For Your Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.

Macintyre, Ben

. Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

"Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 1200 Series: PJ-1223"

Raykoff, Ivan, "Carmichael, Hoagy (1899–1981)" in Pendergast, Tom, and Sara Pendergast (2000). . Detroit: Gale. ISBN 978-1-55862-529-7. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

. Library of Congress. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

"Registry Titles with Descriptions and Expanded Essays"

. BMI Repertoire. Broadcast Music Incorporated. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2011.

"Songwriter/Composer: Carmichael Howard Hoagland"

. BBC. Retrieved December 15, 2016.

"Stardust"

(2002). Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. New York: Oxford University Press in association with the Indiana Historical Society. ISBN 0-19-513120-7.

Sudhalter, Richard M.

"Television in Review". . June 8, 1953.

The New York Times

. Archived from the original on December 12, 2005. Retrieved March 14, 2008.

"The Official Hoagy Carmichael Web Site"

. Starr Gennett Foundation. March 28, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

"Walk of Fame"

Wilder, Alec (1990). . New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 371–388. ISBN 0-19-501445-6.

American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900–1950

Official website

at IMDb

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at the Internet Broadway Database

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at the Red Hot Jazz Archive

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at Indiana University Bloomington

The Hoagy Carmichael Collection

at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

Hoagy Carmichael recordings

discography at Discogs

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