# Hoagy Carmichael

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To Have and Have Not

Howard Hawks’s To Have and Have Not (1944) is more Hollywood than Hemingway–something for which we should all be grateful. The film is a wonderful example–perhaps the best–of onscreen chemistry and remains wildly entertaining even aside from the onscreen courtship of Bogart and Bacall. Join us as w…

Steve Parish

Oteil and Mike are back to kick off 2022 with a very special guest, the one and only Steve Parish! In this conversation you’ll hear one of the wisest, longest-running members of the Grateful Dead family talk about illusions of being on the road, why being a musician is one of the most difficult pro…

Volume 195: Delta Dixieland

This is truly an interesting find in my dad’s collection. We know by now my dad’s love for the Dixieland style of music. So it’s not surprising I found this record in the stacks. But what was surprising is that this recording was made by seven musicians that had never played together before. You m…

An elephant cannot jump (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Nov 2024) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Walmart-mart sells more apparel a year than all the other competing department stores combined Scientists have determi…

Story of Writing November 22, 2024

The birthday club includes George Eliot, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodney Dangerfield, and Terry Gilliam - with a reading from Eliot's "Mill on the Floss."

"Stardust"

Hoagy Carmichael was not quite 28 years old when he wrote what music historians consider THE song of the 20th century. Just how big is “Stardust” in the Great American Songbook? * Well, for starters, this is a song that has been recorded as an instrumental or a vocal more than 1,500 times. * Forty…

When Danny Brings the Sizzle

Often the first notes of the evening set the pace, the mood and the tone for the entire rehearsal. As you’ll hear on this track, Danny Cox walked into last week’s session ready to set the Floodometer on sizzle. And it certainly worked. The Flood has been doing this great old 1920s jazz standard f…

Hoagy Carmichael

With a laid-back, familiar style, the composer, pianist and singer Hoagy Carmichael created popular hits for decades – and logged numerous entries into the Great American Songbook. When asked about his tuneful gift, he credited his early roots in jazz. But his foremost gift was melody, as “Star Dus…

Podcast Hoagy Carmichael Golden Age of Radio Tribute

December 27, 1981 Hoagy Carmichael died at 82. He was an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. In 1961, Carmichael was featured in an episode of The Flintstones entitled "The Hit Songwriters". On this special podcast listen to a Golden Age of Radio comedy starring Hoagy Carmichael wi…