If Cole Porter and George Gershwin penned the soundtrack of the city, then Hoagy Carmichael was the voice of America's heartland. His best-known songs are now American standards: "Stardust," "Georgia ...

I approached Stardust Melody skeptically. With two Carmichael autobiographies recently re-released, did we really need this biography? Could Sudhalter, so steeped in Hoagy Carmichael's music as a ...

New acoustic music from Youssou N'Dour; The African fusion of Mali's Salif Keita; The remastered Nonesuch Explorer Series; Stardust memories of Hoagy Carmichael; A jazz revolution from Django ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most recognizable and widely known tunes in western culture had a rather inauspicious beginning, and has an amazing connection to the desert. The melody was composed by Howard Hoagland ...

Singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael was a constant presence in mid-20th-century popular music. Wry and folksy, with a curious dreamlike flavour, his songs betray his origins in the jazz world of the ...

Bob Dylan has shared his latest cover version with a rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s ‘Stardust’. Dylan is gearing up to release his latest album ‘Triplicate’ – a three-disc collection of 30 classic ...

Billy Philadelphia's 1980s cabaret impersonation of Hoagy Carmichael has morphed into a lavish supper club concert act with an irrepressible emcee, a knockout leading lady belter, an adagio dance team ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RC038. Indiana Historical Society: IHS C1002. Manufacturers' nos.: CBS Special Products/CBS Records: BT 20600--BT 20601 (1st and 3rd cassettes); RCA Special ...