One of the most recognizable and widely known tunes in western culture had a rather inauspicious beginning, and has an amazing connection to the desert. The melody was composed by Howard Hoagland ...

If Cole Porter and George Gershwin penned the soundtrack of the city, then Hoagy Carmichael was the voice of America's heartland. His best-known songs are now American standards: "Stardust," "Georgia ...

Meet the cast and creative team for the New York premiere of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road, conceived by Susan H. Schulman, Michael Lichtefeld, and Lawrence Yurman, developed with Hoagy Bix ...

Last weekend, the History Committee at Thunderbird Country Club threw a big party. The idea was to honor one of the club’s original members, and one of its most well-known. His name might not be as ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: CD RD038. Indiana Historical Society: IHS CD1002. Additional nos., disc 1: DIDP 079460, A 20600; disc 2: DVC1-0840; disc 3: DIDP ...

THE FIRST TIME I heard the name Hoagy Carmichael, I scratched my chinit was college, and I rarely shaved, so my face itched a lotand thought, “Ah yes, the Black Power activist.” Luckily, I kept my ...

I approached Stardust Melody skeptically. With two Carmichael autobiographies recently re-released, did we really need this biography? Could Sudhalter, so steeped in Hoagy Carmichael's music as a ...

The York Theatre company is presenting the New York premiere of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road, conceived by Susan H. Schulman, Michael Lichtefeld, and Lawrence Yurman, developed with Hoagy Bix ...

The jazz standard “Star Dust” was written in Keuka Lake, N.Y.; or was it on the campus of the Indiana University Law School? Or maybe in the Book Nook, of the Gables in Blooming, Ind.? Just goes to ...

A house on South Washington Street damaged in a fire last week has been identified as the one-time home of the legendary songwriter and musician Hoagy Carmichael.In fact, it might have been the place ...

Much of American culture in the 20th century contains a duality: a craving for the new, and a simultaneous yearning for an idealized past that maybe never was. SF Gate Logo Don't let Google decide who ...

Billy Philadelphia's 1980s cabaret impersonation of Hoagy Carmichael has morphed into a lavish supper club concert act with an irrepressible emcee, a knockout leading lady belter, an adagio dance team ...