Hoagy Carmichael

Person · Open Library

Born

1899

Died

1981

Works

18

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Film & TV

Acting · Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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…

Known for

• Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet — Self1982
• Old Friends... New Friends — Self1978
• Burke's Law — 'Jango' Jordan1963
• Burke's Law — Carl Baker1963
• The Flintstones — Self (voice)1960
• Laramie — Jonesy1959
• The Helen Morgan Story — Marty Dix1957
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self1957
• Telephone Time1956
• The Rosemary Clooney Show — Self1956

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1899

Active to

1981

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

176,203

Total plays

957,717

"Hoagy" Carmichael (born Howard Hoagland 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. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented <a href="https

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Inhibition of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Tumors from <i>BRCA</i> Mutation Carriers

   · 2009 · cited 3,183x

2. Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon

   · 2008 · cited 3,029x

3. Irinotecan combined with fluorouracil compared with fluorouracil alone as first-line treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer: a multicentre randomised trial

   · 2000 · cited 2,557x

4. Recurring Mutations Found by Sequencing an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Genome

   · 2009 · cited 1,913x

5. Asian emissions in 2006 for the NASA INTEX-B mission

   · 2009 · cited 1,850x

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Music

Quotes

• “You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.”
• “It's the story of a very unfortunate colored manWho got arrested down in Old Hong KongHe got twenty years' privilege taken away from himWhen he kicked old Buddha's gong.”
• “I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.hoagy.com

Image

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