Hoagy Carmichael

Biography

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 "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.

Known For

Butch Engle

The Best Years of Our Lives

Cricket

To Have and Have Not

Happy

The Las Vegas Story

Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

Young Man with a Horn

Celestial O'Brien

Johnny Angel

Hi Linnet

Canyon Passage

Tom Bracken

Belles on Their Toes

Hoagy Carmichael

Johnny Holiday

Hong Kong Blues

Chick Morgan

Night Song

Marty Dix

The Helen Morgan Story

Jingles

Timberjack

Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

Topper

Lazybones

Himself

Hoagy Carmichael

Self

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet