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At last, available for the first time the definitive study of Hoagy Carmichael in a splendid 10 CD BOX SET from the masters of re-mastered nostalgia…..AVID Entertainment!
Our collection follows Hoagy from his earliest moments on record with the likes of Hitch’s Happy Harmonists, Paul Whiteman and Louis Armstrong into the 1930’s where he was to have his most fruitful period and arguably his greatest success with such classics as Star Dust, Rockin’Chair and Georgia On My Mind. Our journey continues into the 40’s and 50’s where the master not only produces great new work but creates new versions of old classics often better sung and better realised than the earlier 20’s and 30’s recordings! Decca recordings are heavily featured throughout the Box Set alongside many tracks which first appeared on “V” Disc as well as a variety of “bootleg” labels. For the first time, the ARA label is represented featuring Hoagy as singer and pianist singing such classics as Snowball and Lazy Bones and perhaps foreshadowing the likes of Elton John and Billy Joel!
For an untrained musician Hoagy Carmichael made an enormous contribution to 20th Century music and left us a magnificent legacy of standards as this well packaged and re-mastered Box Set illustrates. It is sadly perhaps, a lost era now, as Hoagy said in 1979 “ I could have accomplished a hell of a lot more…..but rock just knocked me out…I just quit almost on account of rock n roll!”
His last hit was in 1950 but his musical legacy will live on forever.
CD1
HITCH’S HAPPY HARMONISTS
1. Boneyard Shuffle
2. Washboard Blues
HOAGY CARMICHAEL AND HIS PALS
3. One Night In Havana
4. Friday Night
5. Star Dust
6. When Baby Sleeps
PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA
7. Washboard Blues
JEAN GOLDETTE & HIS ORCHESTRA
8. My Ohio Home
9. So Tired
CARMICHAEL’S COLLEGIANS
10. March Of The Hoodlums
11. Smile
12. Walkin’ The Dog
13. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
14. Rockin’ Chair
15. March Of The Hoodlums
16. Walkin’ The Dog
17. Sittin’ And Whittlin’
THE COTTON PICKERS
18. St. Louis Gal
IRVING MILLS & HIS HOTSY TOTSY GANG
19. Harvey
20. March Of The Hoodlums
21. Star Dust
ED LANG & HIS ORCHESTRA
22. What Kind Of Man Is You?
23. Walkin’ The Dog
24. March Of The Hoodlums
PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA
25. Washboard Blues
ED LANG & HIS ORCHESTRA
26. Walkin’ The Dog
CD2
FRANKIE TRUMBAUER & HIS ORCHESTRA
1. Manhattan Rag
IRVING MILLS & HIS HOTSY TOTSY GANG
2. Manhattan Rag
3. What Kind Of Man Is You?
LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA
4. Rockin Chair
IRVING MILLS & HIS HOTSY TOTSY GANG
5. High And Dry
6. Barbaric
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
7. Rockin’ Chair
8. Barnacle Bill The Sailor
9. Georgia On My Mind
10. One Night In Havana
11. Bessie Couldn’t Help It
12. Lazy River
13. Papa’s Gone Bye-Bye Blues
14. Just Forget
SUNNY CLAPP & HIS BAND O’SUNSHINE
15. Come Easy, Go Easy Love
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
16. Dance Medley No.1: In The Still Of The Night * Washboard Blues * Georgia On My Mind * Rockin’ Chair
17. Dance Medley No.2: Rockin’ Chair * Lazy River * Daybreak * Georgia On My Mind * Rockin’ Chair
18. After Twelve O’Clock
19. Sing It Way Down Low
20. Thanksgivin’
HOAGY CARMICHAEL (piano & vocal)
21. Snowball
22. Lazybones
23. One Morning In May
CD3
HOAGY CARMICHAEL (piano & vocal)
1. Star Dust
2. Cosmics
3. Washboard Blues
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
4. Judy
5. Moon Country
6. Bessie Couldn’t Help It
HOAGY CARMICHAEL (piano & vocal)
7. Medley: Judy * Moon Country
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
8. Two Sleepy People
9. Hong Kong Blues
10. Riverboat Shuffle
11. New Orleans
CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA WITH HOAGY CARMICHAEL
12. Washboard Blues
13. Little Old Lady
HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH JACK TEAGARDEN & HIS ORCHESTRA
14. Two Sleepy People
15. That’s Right – I’m Wrong
16. Medley: Washboard Blues * Lazybones
17. Medley: Small Fry * Rockin’ Chair
18. Star Dust
FRANCES LANGFORD
19. Baltimore Oriole
AL DONAHUE & HIS ORCHESTRA
20. Poor Old Joe
HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH BOB CROSBY & HIS ORCHESTRA
21. Stardust
HOAGY CARMICHAEL TRIO
22. The Old Music Master
23. Old Man Harlem
24. Judy
25. Star Dust
26. Don’t Forget To Say ‘No’ Baby
27. Hong Kong Blues
CD4
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
1. No More Toujours L’Amour
2. A World Of No Goodbyes
3. Sweet Lorraine
4. Vine Street Parade
5. The Whale Song
6. My Christmas Song For You
7. How Little We Know
8. Somewhere On Via Roma
9. Billy-A-Dick
10. Hong Kong Blues
11. Baltimore Oriole
12. Star Dust
13. Memphis In June
14. Am I Blue?
15. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
16. Sleepy Time Gal
17. Ginger And Spice
18. Ole Buttermilk Sky
19. I Can’t Get Started
20. I Don’t Know Why
21. Walk It Off
22. It Ain’t Gonna Be Like That
CD5
HOAGY CARMICHAEL V-DISCS
1. Baltimore Oriole
2. Hong Kong Blues
3. Star Dust
4. No More Toujours L’Amour
5. Billy-A-Dick
6. Memphis In June
7. Sleepy Time Gal
8. Ginger And Spice
9. Medley : Am I Blue? * How Little We Know * Hong Kong Blues
10. Everybody’s Seen Him But His Daddy
11. Everybody’s Seen Him But His Daddy
12. Rogue River Valley
13. Riverboat Shuffle
14. Riverboat Shuffle
15. Riverboat Shuffle
16. Two Sleepy People
17. Two Sleepy People
18. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
19. The Old Spinning Wheel
20. Huggin’ And Chalkin’
21. No More Toujours L’Amour
HOAGY CARMICHAEL RADIO SHOW EXCERPTS
22. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
23. Singin’ Down The Road
24. Memphis In June
25. Cranky Old Yank
26. Small Fry
27. Little Old Lady
28. Down T’Uncle Bills
29. There’s Nobody Home On The Range
30. Riverboat Shuffle
31. Lazybones
CD6
HOAGY CARMICHAEL 1948 ‘MARCH OF DIMES’ RADIO TRANSCRIPT
1. Stardust
2. My How The Times Goes By
3. Civilization
4. Hong Kong Blues
5. Dialogue
6. Naughty Angeline
7. The Whiffenpoof Song
8. Great Day
9. Casanova Cricket
HOAGY CARMICHAEL BBC BROADCASTS
10. Intro. & Stardust
11. Riverboat Shuffle
12. Conversation with Mark White
13. Old Man Harlem
14. Baltimore Oriole
15. Conversation with Mark White
16. Memphis In June
17. Riverboat Shuffle
18. The Monkey Song
19. I Get Along Without You Very Well
20. Conversation with Peter Fettes
21. The Sad Cowboy
22. Baltimore Oriole
23. Conversation with Peter Fettes
24. The Old Music Master
25. Conversation with Peter Fettes, Star Dust & sign off
HOAGY CARMICHAEL ON BING CROSBY RADIO SHOW
26. Bing Crosby & Hoagy Carmichael: Comedy Patter
27. Ole Buttermilk Sky
HOAGY CARMICHAEL ‘GUEST STAR’ RADIO TRANSCRIPTS
28. The Love Nest
29. It’s A Good Day
30. Am I Blue?
31. Singin’ Down The Road
32. I Want To Be Happy
33. Ole Buttermilk Sky
HOAGY CARMICHAEL 1952 RADIO PROGRAMME
34. I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody
35. Rockin’ Chair
36. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
CD7
HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH VARIOUS ACCOMPANIMENTS
1. Huggin’ And Chalkin’
2. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful)
3. Talking Is A Woman
4. Ole Buttermilk Sky
5. Sh-h, The Old Man’s Sleepin’
6. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
7. Riverboat Shuffle
8. Rockin’ Chair
9. Georgia On My Mind
10. Casanova Cricket
11. A Man Could Be A Wonderful Thing
12. A Tune For Humming
13. Put Yourself In My Place, Baby
14. Who Killed ‘Er?
15. The Sad Cowboy
16. I’m A-Comin’ A-Courtin’ Corabelle
17. Ok’l Baby Dok’l
18. Gonna Get A Girl
19. For Every Man There’s A Woman
20. The Feathery Feeling
21. Memphis In June
22. Ten To One It’s Tennessee
23. Bubble-Loo, Bubble-Loo
24. Fightin’ Love
25. Grandma Teeter-Totter
26. Laughing Boy
27. I’ve Been Hit
28. An Old Piano Plays The Blues
CD8
HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH VARIOUS ACCOMPANIMENTS
1. Chocolate Whiskey And Vanilla Gin
2. Three Rivers
3. Crocodile Tears
4. Crime And Punishment
5. That’s A Plenty
6. The Darktown Strutters’ Ball
7. The Old Piano Roll Blues
8. Stay With The Happy People
9. Somebody Stole My Horse And Wagon
10. Coney Island Washboard
11. Some Days There Just Ain’t No Fish
12. Cincinnati Dancing Pig
13. I’m Movin’ On
14. Cindy
15. Ida Red
16. The Golden Rocket
17. The Aba Daba Honeymoon
18. My Resistance Is Low
19. Sacramento
20. I’m Waiting Just For You
21. Woman Is A Five Letter Word
22. Flap Your Elbows, Spin Your Ears And Fly Away
23. Rotation Blues
24. Drip Drop
25. Happy Hoagy’s Medley : I Can’t Give You Anything But Love * Ivory Rag * The Darktown Strutters’ Ball
26. The Crazy Otto Rag
27. Lazy River
28. When Love Goes Wrong
29. Love Will Soon Be Here
CD9
HOAGY PLAYS BALLADS FOR DANCING (all compositions by Hoagy Carmichael)
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA
1. I Walk With Music
2. Skylark
3. I Get Along Without You Very Well
4. Two Sleepy People
5. The Lamplighter’s Serenade
6. Heart And Soul
7. The Nearness Of You
8. Ivy
9. One Morning In May
10. How Little We Know
11. Blue Orchids
12. Star Dust
PRIVATE RECORDINGS (1939-1951)
13. They All Done Gone With The Wind
14. Poor Old Joe
15. Lazy River
16. Ev’ntide
17. I Get Along Without You Very Well
18. How Little We Know
19. Billy-A-Dick
20. Look Out Below
21. Drip Drop
22. No More Toujours L’Amour
23. Baltimore Oriole
24. Ginger And Spice
25. Memphis In June
26. I Walk Alone
27. Kinda Lonesome
28. Messin’ Around
29. Star Dust
CD10
1. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: My Sweet
2. THE BOSWELL SISTERS: Song Of Spring
3. THE CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA: Moonburn
4. ETHER WATERS: Bread And Gravy
5. BENNY GOODMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA: Sing Me A Swing Song
6. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: Ev’ntide
7. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: Lyin’ To Myself
8. TEDDY WILSON & HIS ORCHESTRA: April In My Heart
9. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: Jubilee
10. SARAH VAUGHAN: The Nearness Of You
11. DOROTHY LAMOUR: Kinda Lonesome
12. CONNIE BOSWELL: Heart And Soul
13. BOB CROSBY & HIS ORCHESTRA: Blue Orchids
14. GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA: The Rumba Jumps
15. GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA: Ooh, What You Said!
16. BING CROSBY: Can’t Get Indiana Off My Mind
17. BERYL DAVIES: I Should Have Known You Years Ago
18. GENE KRUPA & HIS ORCHESTRA: Skylark
19. GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA: We’re The Couple In The Castle
20. FRANK SINATRA: The Lamplighter’s Serenade
21. JO STAFFORD: Ivy
22. KAY STARR: A Woman Likes To Be Told
23. BING CROSBY: In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
24. RAY ANTHONY & HIS ORCHESTRA: I Guess It Was You All The Time
25. JANE RUSSELL: Ain’t There Anyone Here For Love? |
