One cold winter night two years ago, the past crept up on Bucky Halker and his wife Toni as they sat sipping wine at home and listening to music. “I got the idea that night,” said Halker. “Toni and I ...

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 ...

Imagine a law-school graduate who works on Wall Street but ends up becoming one of America’s most beloved songwriters. That’s the improbable journey of Hoagy Carmichael, the man behind such timeless ...

We continue our rebroadcast of our series on American Popular Song with a tribute to composer Hoagy Carmichael. Carmichael wrote "Star Dust," "Heart and Soul," "The Nearness of You," "Skylark" and ...

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) continues its 20th Anniversary season with Harry, Hoagy & Harold, an evening of song featuring the greatest hits and rarities by three American song-writers: Harry ...

If you've haven't heard of Hoagy Carmichael, you've at least heard his music. No pianist worth his salt can honestly say he has never been requested to play "Stardust." And that song, first recorded ...

Clapton was with The Yardbirds and George with The Beatles when they first met in the early 1960s. However, George told Mitchell Glazer (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: CD RD038. Indiana Historical Society: IHS CD1002. Additional nos., disc 1: DIDP 079460, A 20600; disc 2: DVC1-0840; disc 3: DIDP ...

Some believe it's a song about a girl. Others believe it's a song about a place. A state. The Peachtree State. The two men who wrote the music and lyrics—Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell—can't ...

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 ...

The cast of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road is Markcus Blair (Off-Broadway debut), Sara Esty (An American in Paris on Broadway, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story), Dion Simmons Grier (Sister Act and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As for Billy Stritch, he has for years been New York’s go-to musical director and ...