Hoagy Carmichael is different than the other great American jazz and pop song stylists of his time like the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin in that his songs only occasionally took romance as a central theme. Carmichael preferred instead to deal with places, times and mindsets, with a song like "Georgia on My Mind" being a perfect example. It's a love song, certainly, but it is a love song to a place, and more specifically, to a place in time, and (as the title states) a place in mind. Even Carmichael's most famous composition, "Stardust," isn't so much a song about love as it is a song about thinking about a song about love, which makes it a love song one step removed. Songs like "Rockin' Chair" or "Lazy River" may be romantic in tone but they aren't love songs in any normal sense. Perhaps this is why Carmichael's melodies also do so well as instrumentals, since they depend more on mood, time and feel than any kind of romantic plot line. At the very least, Carmichael's songs have proven to be extremely versatile, as the sheer range of artists on this compilation from the Italian reissue label Giants of Jazz makes clear, including turns by Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey and several others on Carmichael tunes recorded between 1927 and 1960. Covered are Carmichael classics like "Stardust," "Lazy River," "Lazy Bones" ("lazy" was a key word in Carmichael's lyrical lexicon), "Georgia on My Mind," and "One Night in Havana," songs that frame the legacy of a very unique writer, one who wrote love songs to places and ideas, and in doing so, defined the concept of Americana in the purest sense.
~ Steve Leggett, AMG

Track List:

1. Stardust (Carmichael, Parish) - 3:50
2. Rockin' Chair (Carmichael) - 3:27
3. Come Easy, Go Easy Love (Carmichael, Clapp) - 2:43
4. Ginger and Spice (Carmichael) - 1:15
5. Sleepy Time Gal (Alden, Egan, Lorenzo, Whiting) - 2:11
6. Billy-A-Dick (Carmichael, Webster) - 1:18
7. Lazy River (Arodin, Carmichael) - 3:14
8. Bessie Couldn't Help It (Bayha, Richmond, Warner) - 2:53
9. Georgia on My Mind (Carmichael, Gorrell) - 3:07
10. March of the Hoodlums (Carmichael) - 2:40
11. Washboard Blues (Callahan, Carmichael, Mills) - 4:15
12. Hong Kong Blues (Carmichael) - 2:13
13. Cosmic (Carmichael) - 2:47
14. Lazy Bones (Carmichael, Mercer) - 3:00
15. Snowball (Carmichael) - 2:45
16. Judy (Carmichael, Lerner) - 3:00
17. Sing It Way Down Low (Carmichael, Trent) - 2:48
18. One Morning in May (Carmichael, Parish) - 2:40
19. One Night in Havana (Carmichael) - 3:08
20. So Tired (Little, Sizemore) - 3:09
21. Moon Country (Carmichael, Mercer) - 3:14
22. Barnacle Bill the Sailor (Carmichael) - 2:46

Personnel:

Hoagy Carmichael (Piano), Hoagy Carmichael (Composer), Hoagy Carmichael (Vocals), Steve Brown (Bass), Bud Freeman (Sax (Tenor)), Benny Goodman (Clarinet), Gene Krupa (Drums), Eddie Lang (Guitar), Red Norvo (Xylophone), Jack Teagarden (Trombone), Joe Venuti (Violin), Joe Venuti (Viola), Carl Kress (Guitar), Irving Mills (Composer), Carson Robison (Vocals), Roy Smeck (Guitar), Bubber Miley (Trumpet), Sidney Arodin (Clarinet), Sidney Arodin (Sax (Alto)), Bix Beiderbecke (Cornet), Artie Bernstein (Bass), Arnold Brillhardt (Sax (Alto)), Bill Challis (Arranger), Kurt Dieterle (Violin), Jimmy Dorsey (Clarinet), Jimmy Dorsey (Sax (Alto)), Tommy Dorsey (Trombone), Harry Goodman (Tuba), Joe Hudson (Drums), Manny Klein (Trumpet), Chauncey Morehouse (Drums), Chauncey Morehouse (Vibraphone), Mischa Russell (Violin), Byron Warner (Composer), Paul Francis Webster (Composer), Sterling Bose (Trumpet), Min Leibrook (Sax (Baritone)), Matty Malneck (Viola), Harold McDonald (Drums), Harold McDonald (Vibraphone), Andy Secrest (Trumpet), Charles Strickfaden (Sax (Alto)), Charles Strickfaden (Sax (Baritone)), Paul Whiteman Orchestra (Performer), Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra (Performer), Jim Johnston (Bass), Boyce Cullen (Trombone), Nat Natoli (Trumpet), Larry Tice (Clarinet), Larry Tice (Sax (Alto)), Wilbur Hall (Guitar), Ray Lodwig (Trumpet), Irving Brodsky (Piano), Irving Brodsky (Vocals), Fred Murray (Trumpet), Lee Howell (Trombone), Sid Peltyn (Trumpet), Richard A. Whiting (Composer), Ange Lorenzo (Composer), Jacques Richmond (Composer), Joseph Reed Alden (Composer), Raymond Egan B. (Composer), Harry Warner (Banjo), Harry Warner (Guitar), George Harper (Sax (Tenor)), Harry Bason (Piano), Reggie Byleth (?), Harold George (Tuba), Red Ginsler (Trombone), Bob Hutsell (Clarinet), George Marks (Piano), Mel Miller (Drums), Francis Palmer (Bass), Lorin Schulz (Trombone), Harold Stokes (Accordion), Eddie Wolfe (Violin), Sunny Clapp (Clarinet), Sunny Clapp (Sax (Alto)), Myron Schulz (Violin), Andy Anderson (Cornet), Warren Carr (Trombone), Charles Dowling (Bass), Fizz Goodrich (Bars), Charles A. Bayha (Composer), Fred B. Callahan (Composer), Andy Van Sickle (Drums)

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