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 ...

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 ...

One of the most recognizable and widely known tunes in western culture had a rather inauspicious beginning, and has an amazing connection to the desert. The melody was composed by Howard Hoagland ...

The Great American Songbook—the 20th-century’s canon of favorites—is replete with songs celebrating life, romance, and high society. But one esteemed songwriter gained renown for “home-and-hearth” ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In some ways it is easier to say what Hoagy Carmichael wasn't than to say what he was. He wasn't, ...

Sometimes I wonder is the story of Hoagy Carmichael, lawyer, piano player, singer, composer, star of motion pictures, radio and television. Hoagland Howard Carmichael received his LL. D. from Indiana ...

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, ...

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 ...

What Hoosier wrote one of the most-recorded songs in history, became America’s first great composer-performer, passed the Indiana bar exam, and closely resembled one of cinema’s most dashing and ...