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Songwriter Biography: CARMICHAEL, HOAGY

CARMICHAEL, HOAGY   Hall of Fame
(Howard Hoagland Carmichael)
Born: 1899 Bloomington, IN
Died: 1981 Palm Springs, CA
Collaborators: Mitchell Parish, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser,
Stanley Adams, Paul Francis Webster,  Sammy Lerner, Ned
Washington, Jack Brooks, Harold Adamson

Successful career acting in films

Shows: Walk with Music

Films: Canyon Passage, The Las Vegas Story, Road Show, To Have
and Have Not, True to Life

Principal Songs: Baltimore Oriole, Blue Orchids, Can't Get Indiana Off
My Mind, Georgia on My Mind, Heart and Soul, Hong Kong Blues,
How Little We Know, I Get Along Without You Very Well, In the
Cool Cool Cool of the Evening, Ivy, I Walk with Music, Judy,
Kinda Lonesome, The Lamplighter's Serenade, Lazybones, Lazy
River, Little Old Lady, Memphis in June, Moonburn, Moon
Country, My Resistance is Low, The Nearness of You, The Old
Music Master, Ole Buttermilk Sky, One Morning in May,
Riverboat Shuffle, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Small Fry, Star
Dust, Two Sleepy People, Washboard Blues, We're the Couple in
the Castle
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