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American pop song deserves double duty.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
"Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael" by Richard M. Sudhalter (Oxford, 432 pp., $35)
"Stardust Melodies: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs" by Will Friedwald (Pantheon, 397 pp., $27.50)
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Two new books, good ones, with almost the same title: "Stardust Melody," a biography of Hoagy Carmichael, and "Stardust Melodies," a look at a dozen classic American popular songs. Don't publishers read each other's catalogs?
Both titles allude to Mitchell Parish's lyrics to Carmichael's "Star Dust" _ a song about the way music takes hold of memory. Both books put Carmichael squarely at the center of the great flowering of American popular song that took place from 1920 to 1950.
There were composers of the period who were more skilled (George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington), more prolific (Irving Berlin), more sophisticated (Cole Porter). But Carmichael songs like "Star Dust," "Georgia on My Mind," "Skylark" and "The Nearness of You" stand up to their best.
At an age when other composers were doing apprenticeships on Broadway or Tin Pan Alley, Carmichael was a jazz-mad Kappa Sig at Indiana University, a ...
- Stardust Memories;Hoagy Carmichael's Sterling Standards
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Richard Harrington December 25, 1988 700+ words
"The Classic Hoagy Carmichael" is an invitation...in "The Classic Hoagy Carmichael," a delightful...virtual synonym for Hoagy Carmichael began its long life...Book Nook, as "Star Dust," a strictly instrumental...
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1965 700+ words
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- Lazing in the Shade of Hoagy Carmichael
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post JONATHAN YARDLEY April 10, 1989 700+ words
...manifold pleasures of "The Classic Hoagy Carmichael." This three-cassette album...preservation, too, since the music of Hoagy Carmichael, like so much else from his time...and appropriately, "The Classic Hoagy Carmichael" begins with a performance by a musician...
- Perry Como and Hoagy Carmichael
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
...Photos 01-01-1996 Perry Como and Hoagy Carmichael Two of popular musics most enduring legends, Hoagy Carmichael and Perry Como, work on some tunes...musics most enduring legends, Hoagy Carmichael and Perry Como, work on some tunes...
- Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust and Much More.
- Magazine article from: National Review De Toledano, Ralph March 5, 1990 700+ words
Much More (BMG RCA-bluebird 8333-2-RB) is a compendium of one man's contribution to jazz, as composer of such notable standards as "Stardust" and "Rockin' Chair" and other lovely melodies-and as a performer with some of the pioneering jazz orchestras. He was one of the early adulators of Bix
- Stardust Melody: the Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael.(Book Review)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Biography Levin, Martin March 22, 2003 700+ words
Richard M. Sudhalter. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 432 pp. $35.00. "The grasp of Carmichael's music and its contexts is firm, but the man remains as elusive on the page as he appears to have been in life." The author "relies heavily on Carmichael's memories, but catches him out regularly." Martin
- "Star Dust"
- Reference information from: The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana Tad Tuleja January 1, 1994 700+ words
00-00-0000 Star Dust Star Dust A song written in 1927 by Hoagy CARMICHAEL, with words added two years later by Mitchell Parish. It has been recorded in hundreds of versions and was especially popular in the Big Band era. Artie Shaw's recording...
- 81-year-old saxophonist is a surprise fan favorite at OFAM.(Arts and Literature)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) August 7, 2008 700+ words
...m. - Film: "Casablanca" (1942), Shedd Recital Hall 1 p.m. - Talk: Hoagy Carmichael, Shedd Recital Hall 2 p.m. - Concert: "Star Dust: Hoagy Carmichael's America," Shedd Jaqua Concert Hall 5 p.m. - Talk: "The People's...
Source: HighBeam Research, American pop song deserves double duty.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)