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.
Awards & recognition
- Grammy Trustees Award · 2005
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1952
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1947 · nominated
Filmography16 titles
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
The Best Years of Our Lives
To Have and Have Not
The Flintstones
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
What's My Line?
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Laramie
Canyon Passage
Topper
Lux Video Theatre
Telephone Time
Young Man with a Horn
Night Song
Johnny Angel
Hoagy Carmichael