Hoagy Carmichael Biography

orig. Hoagland Howard Carmichael

(1899 - 1981)

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  • Compositions
  • 1927 Stardust
  • 1930 Rockin' Chair
  • 1931 Georgia On My Mind
  • 1931 (Up A) Lazy River
  • 1933 Lazybones
  • 1933 One Morning In May
  • 1938 Two Sleepy People
  • 1940 The Nearness Of You
  • 1942 Skylark
  • 1942 Lamplighter's Serenade
  • 1944 How Little We Know
  • 1951 In The Cool Cool Cool Of The Evening
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(born Nov. 22, 1899, Bloomington, Ind., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, Calif.) U.S. songwriter. While studying law in Indiana, he met many jazz musicians, including Bix Beiderbecke, who recorded Carmichael's first composition, “Riverboat Shuffle” (1924). The relaxed tunefulness of later songs such as “Georgia (Georgia on My Mind),” “Rockin' Chair,” and “Lazy River” gave them a universal appeal. For Hollywood films he wrote “Thanks for the Memory,” “Two Sleepy People,” “Heart and Soul,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (1951, Academy Award). His “Stardust” is reputedly the most recorded popular song of all time. He acted in several films, including To Have and Have Not (1944) and Young Man with a Horn (1950), and wrote the memoirs The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965).


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