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One is by Yve Evans, who is a magnificent jazz singer from the L.A. area, she's doing a tribute to Louis Jordan. She worked on it just this year, so this is the first time she will have done it. That should be really neat ... And we have a couple of other interesting sets that are singer showcases. We have a lot of singers. One on Friday, tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen, he's known as the songwriter for the Rat Pack. And the one on Saturday is a tribute to Hoagy Carmichael ('Stardust').More quotes »
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Vintage car collection could net $14 million
a 1958 Dual Giah convertible, the epitome of a four-wheel Hollywood status symbol that was owned by composer/jazz musician Hoagy Carmichael. Carmichael wrote some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century, including "Stardust" and "Georgia on My Mind." from The News & Observer Read more »
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Italian Coachwork in American Proportions: the Dual-Ghia Convertible
of RM Auctions This 1958 Dual-Ghia convertible was owned by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. After seeing what sorts of concept-car tricks automakers were up to at the last few auto shows, it’s fun to dust off the pages of history and examine the concepts that from The New York Times Read more »
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Andrea House in cabaret this weekend
wonder Andrea House is a big Hoagy Carmichael fan (as you will glean from the title of her cabaret In The Stardust Of A Song ). For one thing, the Depression era tunesmith was, as she says, “a big melody hog.” For another, he was a lawyer till he was in his from Edmonton Journal Read more »
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Garage sale: Don Davis' 64 vintage cars could net $14 mil at auction
a 1958 Dual Giah convertible, the epitome of a four-wheel Hollywood status symbol that was owned by composer/jazz musician Hoagy Carmichael. Carmichael wrote some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century, including Stardust and Georgia on My Mind. There's from Fort Worth Star-Telegram Read more »
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Anthony Burgess’s 007 obsession
of films that threatened to displace them in the popular imagination. “Bond,” he wrote, “is often compared facially to Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of ‘Stardust’, a song hit of the 1920s, but for very young readers the name ought to be glossed in a footnote. from New Statesman Read more »
