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Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer.Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 1940s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as old-time radio broadcasts, television ...
"Stardust" is a 1927 song composed by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics later added by Mitchell Parish. It has been recorded as an instrumental or vocal track over 1,500 times. Carmichael developed a taste for jazz while attending Indiana University. He formed his own band and played at local events in Indiana and Ohio.
Carmichael noted J.B.'s name in the song's sheet music as the author of the poem that inspired the lyrics, and asked for help to identify "J.B.". However, it wasn't until the mid-1950s that a positive identification was made. Jane Brown Thompson died the night before the song was introduced on radio by Dick Powell. [1]
New Orleans (Hoagy Carmichael song) O. Ole Buttermilk Sky; One Morning in May (1933 song) P. Play That Song (Train song) R. Riverboat Shuffle; Rockin' Chair (1929 ...
"Rockin' Chair is a 1929 popular song with lyrics and music composed by Hoagy Carmichael. Musically it is unconventional, as after the B section when most popular songs return to A, this song has an A-B-C-A 1 structure. Carmichael recorded the song in 1929, 1930, and 1956. Mildred Bailey made it famous by using it as her theme song. [1]
"Washboard Blues" is a popular jazz song written by Hoagy Carmichael, Fred B. Callahan and Irving Mills. It was first recorded for Gennett Records in May, 1925 by Hitch's Happy Harmonists with Carmichael on piano. It was subsequently recorded by jazz bands Original Memphis Five (1925) and Red Nichols and his Five Pennies (1926).
The song was composed by Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981), and Jack Brooks (1912–1971), [1] and introduced by Carmichael [2] in the Western film Canyon Passage (1946), starring Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc, Ward Bond and Andy Devine, (with a bit appearance by Hoagy Carmichael, singing the song himself).
"Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981), and Stuart Gorrell (1901-1963), and first recorded that same year by Hoagy Carmichael at the RCA Victor Studios at 155 East 24th Street in Manhattan of New York City.