Hoagy Carmichael's career as one of America's great songwriters is unlike any of his peers. Carmichael, like George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, was born at the tail end of the 19th ...

Imagine a law-school graduate who works on Wall Street but ends up becoming one of America’s most beloved songwriters. That’s the improbable journey of Hoagy Carmichael, the man behind such timeless ...

One cold winter night two years ago, the past crept up on Bucky Halker and his wife Toni as they sat sipping wine at home and listening to music. “I got the idea that night,” said Halker. “Toni and I ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: CD RD038. Indiana Historical Society: IHS CD1002. Additional nos., disc 1: DIDP 079460, A 20600; disc 2: DVC1-0840; disc 3: DIDP ...

We continue our rebroadcast of our series on American Popular Song with a tribute to composer Hoagy Carmichael. Carmichael wrote "Star Dust," "Heart and Soul," "The Nearness of You," "Skylark" and ...

If you've haven't heard of Hoagy Carmichael, you've at least heard his music. No pianist worth his salt can honestly say he has never been requested to play "Stardust." And that song, first recorded ...

When Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch raise their voices in song, they're like two trumpets in a big-band brass section. In their current Metropolitan Room gig, "Dreaming of a Song: The Music of ...

THE FIRST TIME I heard the name Hoagy Carmichael, I scratched my chinit was college, and I rarely shaved, so my face itched a lotand thought, “Ah yes, the Black Power activist.” Luckily, I kept my ...

The York Theatre company is presenting the New York premiere of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road, conceived by Susan H. Schulman, Michael Lichtefeld, and Lawrence Yurman, developed with Hoagy Bix ...

The cast of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road is Markcus Blair (Off-Broadway debut), Sara Esty (An American in Paris on Broadway, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story), Dion Simmons Grier (Sister Act and ...

Ian Fleming said he based James Bond’s appearance on this picture of Hoagy Carmichael, the great Hoosier songwriter, whose works comprise a major chapter in the Great American Songbook. Revered by ...

This is the second hour dedicated to the music of Hoagy Carmichael, the most jazz oriented of all the American songwriters. His output was remarkably varied, and without a signature style that ...