Re-Broadcast: Hoagy Carmichael

Thanks for tuning in! Today's show is a re-broadcast episode highlighting the songwriter, Hoagy Carmichael. 

Hoagy wrote hundreds of songs and many many of them became mega hits, beginning in the 1930’s in pan alley. Early on, Carmichael took advantage of new technologies, especially the electrical microphone, sound amplification, and advances in recording and was an industry trailblazer, who recorded varied interpretations of his own songs and provided material for many other musicians to interpret. 

Through the years, he teamed up with some of the most legendary lyricists and together wrote some of the most enduring and beautiful songs performed by countless artists in radio, stage, television, and on the big screen. 

He is a big-time contributor to the American Songbook! 

Enjoy the show!  Cheers!

• Two Sleepy People by Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae on Boy Meets Girl (Decca)
• Heart and Soul by Ella Mae Morse & Billy May on The Morse Code (Capitol)
• Baltimore Oriole by Bob Dorough on Devil May Care (Bethlehem)
•  Stardust by Donald Byrd Quintet on Parisian Thoroughfare (Brunswick)
•  Bread and Gravy by Ethel Waters on Ethel Waters (VIK)
•  Jubilee by Cab Calloway & His Orchestra on 1937/38 (Jazz Document Records)
•  How Little We Know by Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall on How Little We Know...and Other Songs (Blue Moon Records)
• Rogue River Valley by Elton Britt on 1946 (RCA Victor)
• The Nearness of You by Faron Young on The Object of My Affection (Capitol)
• Skylark by Mel Torme on The Velvet Voice of Mel Torme (Music for Pleasure)
• New Orleans by Hoagy Carmichael with Johnny Mandel Orchestra on Hoagy Carmichael Sings with the Pacific Jazzmen (Jazztone)
• Georgia On My Mind by Lurlean Hunter on Night Life (VIK)
• My Resistance is Low by The Lee Brothers with Paul Weston & His Orchestra on 1951 (Columbia)
• Little Old Lady by The Everly Brothers on Both Sides of an Evening (Warner Bros)
• Up A Lazy River by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps on Play BlueJean Bop (Capitol)
• In The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening by Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine on The Duets (Bear Family Records)
• Lazy Bones by Kay Starr on Rockin with Kay (RCA Victor)
• Rockin Chair by Lou Rawls with Band Backing by Onzy Matthews on Tobacco Road (Capitol)