Hoagy Carmichael Quotes

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. American composer and author, Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of all the great craftsmen" of pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies, such as television and the use of electronic microphones and sound recordings.

Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is 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. He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on "Lazybones" and "Skylark." Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky" was an Academy Award nominee in 1946, from Canyon Passage, in which he co-starred as a musician riding a mule. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," with lyrics by Mercer, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951. Carmichael also appeared as a character actor and musical performer in 14 films, hosted three musical-variety radio programs, performed on television, and wrote two autobiographies. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. November 1899 – 27. December 1981
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Famous Hoagy Carmichael Quotes

“You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.”

Song: Rockin’ Chair http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/carmichael_hoagy/1466609/lyrics.jhtml (1930).

“I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues”

1947 song title, generally agreed to be the longest title of any commercially published song.

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