Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Hoagy Carmichael

• Baltimore Oriole
  
• Georgia on My Mind
  
• Heart and Soul
  
• How Little We Know
  
• I Get Along without You Very Well
  
• In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
  
• Lazybones
• Lazy River
  
• The Nearness of You
  
• Skylark
  
• Small Fry
  
• Star Dust
  
• Two Sleepy People

Research Resources: Hoagy Carmichael

• Amazon (books, recordings, videos, etc.)
• Hoagy Carmichael Biography at coutant.org
• The Hoagy Carmichael Collection (at Indiana University)
• The Hoagy Carmichael website
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about the songwriter)
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Hoagy Carmichael article)
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 76).
• Hoagy Carmichael. The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael. New York: Da Capo Press, 1999 ("This book combines . . . Carmichael's two autobiographies, "The Stardust Road" (1945) and "Sometimes I Wonder" (1965) with the addition of eight new pages of photos and a new introduction and select discography. . . ." from Amazon description).
• John E. Hasse. The Classic Hoagy Carmichael. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1988 (for a sample of Hasse writing on Carmichael, click here.
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2000 (chapter on Carmichael, pp. 123-130).
• Richard M. Sudhalter. Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Will Friedwald. Stardust Melodies: A Biography of 12 of America's Most Popular Songs. New York: Pantheon, 2002 (paper-bound edition published by Chicago Review Press / An A Capella Book--includes a chapter on Carmichael's "Star Dust").
• Wilfred Sheed. The House That George Built: with a Little Help from Irving, Cole and a Crew of about Fifty. New York: Random House, 2007 (chapter on Carmichael).
• "Hong Kong Blues": Razvan Dutchevici
• Rockin' Chair: aadjuijn

• Hoagy Carmichael photo portrait: Wikipedia Commons / public domain

Notes

• Hoagy Sings Carmichael (Carmichael singing ten of his own songs with The Pacific Jazz Men, 1956
• Photo portrait of Hoagy Carmichael : Wikipedia Commons

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