HOAGY CARMICHAEL

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Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael
Background information
Birth name	Howard Hoagland Carmichael[1]
Born	November 22, 1899 Bloomington, Indiana
Died	December 27, 1981 (aged 82) Rancho Mirage, California
Genres	Musical films, Popular songs
Occupations	attorney, songwriter, singer, actor
Instruments	piano, vocals
Years active	1918-1981
Associated acts	Sidney Arodin, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Bix Biederbecke, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Helen Forrest, Harry James, Spike Jones, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Glenn Miller, Dinah Shore, Paul Whiteman
Website	Hoagy Carmichael

Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) 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.^[2]
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.^[3]