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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In some ways it is easier to say what Hoagy Carmichael wasn't than to say what he was. He wasn't, like Irving Berlin or George Gershwin ...

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. Perhaps that's why the most popular and ...

Songwriter, entertainer and actor Hoagy Carmichael, best known for the song "Stardust," was born in humble conditions in Bloomington on Nov. 22, 1899. Howard Hoagland Carmichael's father, Howard, was ...

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 ...

This is one in a series of essays celebrating Indiana's bicentennial by looking at the top ideas, people and places of Indiana. Two of the 20th century’s most popular song writers hailed from Indiana, ...

It takes an album like this to fully comprehend and perhaps even appreciate the contributions Hoagy Carmichael made to American popular music. Tunes like his "I Get Along without You Very Well", "The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The cast of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road is Markcus Blair (Off-Broadway debut) ...

If Cole Porter and George Gershwin provided a soundtrack for the city, then Hoagy Carmichael was the voice of America's heartland. A new Carmichael biography and song collection — both called Stardust ...

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 ...