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6 unusual facts about Hoagy Carmichael


Columbia Club

In addition to the thousands of business leaders and politicians who have been members, the Club has also included many artists and musicians including Hoagy Carmichael and T.C. Steele.

Harry South

In 1981, he again arranged for Annie Ross and Georgie Fame in a collaboration on what was to be Hoagy Carmichael's last recording, In Hoagland.

Hoagy

Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981), American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader

Jack Fallon

Soon after playing with Reinhardt, he played in a Count Basie ensemble which also included Malcolm Mitchell and Tony Crombie; he played with both of them after leaving Basie, working together with Hoagy Carmichael and Maxine Sullivan and touring in Sweden together with Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.

Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility

IBS hosted movie crews in 1949 for the shooting of Johnny Holiday starring William Bendix, Hoagy Carmichael and Allen Martin Jr.

Wayne, New York

Hoagy Carmichael was the pianist and vocalist at the hotel for two seasons and local legend has it that his hit Stardust was written while at the Keuka hotel.


Moonburn

"Moonburn" is a 1936 American popular song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Edward Heyman.

My Resistance Is Low

My Resistance Is Low is a 1951 song by American singer, song writer and band leader Hoagy Carmichael, with later lyrics by Harold Adamson.

Ted Fetter

Beginning in 1936, he wrote lyrics for a number of revues, melodramas and burlesques in collaboration with composers, Richard Lewine, Hoagy Carmichael and Vernon Duke.

The Valentino Orchestra

The Valentino Orchestra—named after Rudolph Valentino—bases its repertoire of “sophisticated swing” on the standards of the golden age of American popular music—compositions by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, and the many others who in the Jazz Age established what is often called the Great American Songbook.


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