Hoagy carmichael

With a laid-back, familiar style, the composer, pianist and singer created popular hits for decades — and logged numerous entries into the great American songbook. When asked about his tuneful gift, he credited his early roots in jazz.

Hoagy Carmichael, a jazz musician that Ian Fleming imagined James Bond would look like if 007 really existed. #Topper

Musician, Songwriter, Actor. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, he was a jazz piano player regarded as one of the finest popular music composers of the 20th century. In the 1920s, he was playing and singing in his own band when he started recording and composing for RCA Victor in New York. As a songwriter, he is most noted...

Hoagy Carmichael

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Photos of an American composer. He wrote my mother's favorite song. Crowd in Portland, Oregon handing records to Hoagy Carmichael to sign Harold Russell and Hoagy Carmichael in 'The Best Years of Our Lives' Hoagy and Ruth Carmichael (left of Hoagy) at a Halloween party Hoagy and Ruth Carmichael at a piano Hoagy Carmichael and unidentified woman with Stardust Road record on stage at autograph signing in Culver City, California Hoagy Carmichael composing in the den of his Los Angeles home…

U.S. composer Hoagy Carmichael in the early 1950s. He was the author of international smash hits such as "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" and "Heart and Soul".

Hoagy Carmichael, Robert L Crawford - Laramie (1960)

Hoagy Carmichael

How a college-town springtime in the Jazz Age Midwest paved the way for two legends in the making.

Hoagy Carmichael. An American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. Best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Alec Wilder, in his study of the American popular song, concluded that Hoagy Carmichael was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.

Born Hoagland Howard Carmichael on Nov. 22, 1899 in Bloomington, Ind.. Died Dec. 27, 1981 of heart attack in Eisenhower Medical Center, Calif.

The composer and lyricist left a law career to create one of the most recognizable bodies of work in popular American music, incorporating jazz phrasing into sophisticated yet warmly nostalgic melodies.

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It's been over 20 years since the very talented Robert Fuller decided to retire from acting. Although we still miss him on screen, we have to admit he had a very valid reason to change his mind!

"Stardust" is a popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish. The song, "a song about a song about love", played in an idiosyncratic melody in medium tempo, became an American standard, and is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,500 total recordings. In 2004, the original 1927 recording. was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Hoagy Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981)