Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoagy Carmichael (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS) sings his jazz with a rare close beat...
...hate radio," said Hoagy Carmichael. But in the five weeks since the hit songwriter* went on the air coast-to-coast (Sun. 5:30-5:45 p.m., E.S.T., CBS), radio has threatened more & more to become little (5 ft. 7 in.) Hoagy's big job. Reason: for the first time a wide public has realized that Carmichael is not only a great songwriter, but also an extraordinarily tasteful, idiomatic jazz singer. His style is a restrained off-blue (he calls it "flatsy through the nose...
This week Hoagy will broadcast from back home in Indiana, where Indianapolis Mayor Robert H. Tyndall has proclaimed "Hoagy Carmichael Day." Hoagy (short for Hoagland) was born in Bloomington, Ind. in 1899. His father was an electrician; his mother, an early ragtime pianist, played in a local movie. (Says Hoagy: "She's 70 now, but she can still swing the bass handle.") At 20, Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling...
...hits: Stardust (which has earned Carmichael more than $250,000), Lazybones, Rockin' Chair, Two Sleepy People, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. His latest, Old Buttermilk Sky, last week was No. 6 on the Hit Parade...
...Hoagy Carmichael (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). An offbeat jazz singer in some of his own offbeat songs...