Jazz Articles about Hoagy Carmichael
"Georgia On My Mind" by Hoagy Carmichael

by Tish Oney
Great American Songbook composer, Hoagy Carmichael, (1899-1981) penned many more standards besides the timeless Stardust" and Georgia On My Mind..." He also is credited with writing The Nearness of You," Heart and Soul," Skylark," and I Get Along Without You Very Well," to mention a few more classics. Carmichael starred in a couple of films as a pianist-actor, making his permanent mark in that medium as well as in recorded music and in the writing of American standards. The enduring ...
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