Hoagy Carmichael - My Stardust Melody Songs Of Hoagy Carmichael
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- Stardust - Bing Crosby
- Riverboat Shuffle - Bix Beiderbecke
- Washboard Blues - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
- Rockin' Chair - Jack Teagarden
- Georgia On My Mind - Mildred Bailey
- Lazy River - The Mills Brothers
- Lazybones - Johnny Mercer
- One Morning In May - Sam Browne
- Sing Me a Swing Song And Let Me Dance - Ella Fitzgerald
- Little Old Lady - Gracie Fields
- The Nearness Of You - Sarah Vaughan
- Small Fry - Johnny Mercer
- Heart And Soul - Bea Wain
- Two Sleepy People - Bob Hope
- I Get Along Without You Very Well - Turner Layton
- Blue Orchids - Glenn Miller
- Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind - Bing Crosby
- Skylark - Dinah Shore
- The Lamplighter's Serenade - Frank Sinatra
- How Little We Know - Steve Conway
- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief - Betty Hutton
- Ole Buttermilk Sky - Kay Kyser
- Ivy - Jo Stafford
- My Resistance Is Low - Dorothy Squires
- In the Cool, Cool, Cool Of the Evening - Bing Crosby
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Album Details: My Stardust Melody Songs Of Hoagy Carmichael
- Release Date:
- 07/02/2007
- Label:
- Asv Living Era
- UPC:
- 743625565324
Pro Reviews: My Stardust Melody Songs Of Hoagy Carmichael
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Just like the laconic, drawling pianist he played in the 1945 Humphrey Bogart film To Have and to Have Not, Hoagy Carmichael was himself the caricature of a jive talking jazznick, a sort of pre21st century version of Tom Waits (if they ever produce a movie about Carmichael's life, Waits has to get the lead part), and like Waits, the line between Carmichael's public persona and his private one is almost impossible to perceive. What is clear, though, is that Carmichael was a phenomenal songwriter with an ability to write romantically about things other than romance. Oh, he could write love songs, and he did, many of them, but his biggest hits as a composer have tended to be songs that are really carefully crafted hymns to states of mind, to ways of being and thinking, rather than love songs in the normal sense. His bestknown piece, the enduring "Stardust" (which amazingly enough began life under the title "Barnyard Shuffle"), for instance, although it sounds like a love song, is really a song about thinking about a love song, which is a whole different thing altogether, and "Georgia on My Mind," another Carmichael classic, is nothing less than a statement of devotion to a place, and past that, a place in mind. Likewise, both "Lazy River" and "Lazybones" are about ways of being, while "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is literally a song about the time of day. Carmichael recorded extensively throughout his career, but he wasn't necessarily his own best interpreter, which is why this fine set of covers tracked between 1926 and 1951 makes good sense as an introduction to this unique American voice. Included here are Bing Crosby's sublime version of "Stardust" from 1931, a classic and wonderfully immediate vocal duet by Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong on "Rockin' Chair" from 1947, the Mills Brothers' timeless take on "Lazy River" from 1941, Johnny Mercer's rendition of "Lazybones" from 1933 (the song had been a hit for the Mills Brothers earlier that same year), and Crosby and Jane Wyman's 1951 duet on "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (drawn from the movie Here Comes the Groom, the song won Best Song at the Academy Awards that year). These are marvelous songs, and marvelous performances, and they spotlight a writing talent who found a way to make music that was pure Americana decades before anyone even began to grasp what such a thing was. - Stephen Leggett, All Music Guide |
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One of the great composers of the American popular song, Hoagy Carmichael differed from most of the others (with the obvious exception of Duke Ellington) in that he was also a fine performer. Such Carmichael songs as "Stardust," "Georgia on My Mind,"...Full Hoagy Carmichael Biography
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