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Hoagy Carmichael Biography

orig. Hoagland Howard Carmichael

(1899 - 1981)

Related Works

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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(Leon) Bix Beiderbecke

(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).