Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

1899-11-22 – 1981-12-27 (age 82) Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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Biography

Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. 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.

American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.

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Known For

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

as Butch Engle

Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage

1946

as Hi Linnet

Topper
Topper

1937

as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not

1945

as Cricket

Johnny Angel
Johnny Angel

1945

as Celestial O'Brien

Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn

1950

as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

The Las Vegas Story
The Las Vegas Story

1952

as Happy

Belles on Their Toes
Belles on Their Toes

1952

as Tom Bracken

Timberjack
Timberjack

1955

as Jingles

The Helen Morgan Story
The Helen Morgan Story

1957

as Marty Dix

Night Song
Night Song

1948

as Chick Morgan

Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael

1939

as Himself

Johnny Holiday
Johnny Holiday

1949

as Hoagy Carmichael

Lazybones
Hong Kong Blues