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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The show was to have been directed by Susan H. Schulman, whose Broadway credits include The Secret Garden, Little Women and revivals of Sweeney Todd and The Sound of Music. In a press statement, lead ...

A house on South Washington Street damaged in a fire last week has been identified as the one-time home of the legendary songwriter and musician Hoagy Carmichael.In fact, it might have been the place ...

Hoagy Sings Carmichael has been called many things. I used to refer to the album as a recording by an aging songwriter singing his own songs in the shower. Others have likened Carmichael's voice to ...