Hoagy Carmichael - Writing The Great American Songbook - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Among the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 40s, Hoagy Carmichael (22nd November 1899 - 27th December 1981) was one of the principal architects of the Great American Songbook. He will be forever remembered for numbers like 'Stardust', 'Georgia On My Mind', 'The Nearness of You', 'Heart And Soul', 'Lazybones', 'Skylark' and 'In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening', the latter an Academy Award winner. Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including fifty that achieved hit record status during his lifetime. He also appeared as a character actor and musical performer in fourteen movies, hosted several musical-variety radio programmes, performed regularly on TV, and wrote two best-selling autobiographies. Inducted into the InchHollywood Walk Of FameInch in February 1960, in 1971 he was also inducted into the InchSongwriters' Hall Of FameInch as one of it's initial ten inductees Album Tracks 1. Disc One 2. Washboard Blues - Hitch's Happy Harmonists 3. One Night in Havana Hoagy - Carmichael & His Pals 4. Star Dust (1927 Version) - Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals 5. March of the Hoodlums - Carmichael's Collegians 6. Harvey - Irving Mills & His Hotsy Totsy Gang 7. What Kind O' Man Is You - Ed Lang & His Orchestra, Vocal Mildred Bailey 8. Manhattan Rag - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra 9. High and Dry - Irving Mills & His Hotsy Totsy Gang 10. Rockin' Chair - Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra 11. Georgia on My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra 12. One Night in Havana - Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra 13. Lazy River - Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra 14. Come Easy, Go Easy, Love - Carolina Dandies 15. After Twelve O'Clock - Casa Loma Orchestra 16. Sing It Way Down Low - Casa Loma Orchestra 17. Thanksgivin' - Casa Loma Orchestra 18. Charlie Two Step - the Boswell Sist

Hoagy Carmichael

Writing The Great American Songbook

CD

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