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 ...

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 ...

I f you listen to Little Old Lady, Rockin' Chair, the Oscar-nominated Ole Buttermilk Sky or Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind, you may be forgiven for thinking that some of Hoagy Carmichael's songs are ...

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. Make us a Preferred Source on Google to ...

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 ...

Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood talks about the one song she wishes she wrote, Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” covered by Nat King Cole. When I first heard Stardust I was a child and Nat King Cole was on ...

David Thomson is the author of "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film." A fourth, fully revised, edition will be published this fall. Richard M. Sudhalter begins this invaluable book with the memory ...