#Hoagie Carmichael

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Vintage Poster - The Las Vegas Story (Australian)

RKO (1952)

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Hoagy Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981)

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Hoagy Carmichael

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Interviewed at the Montreal Grand Prix in June 2000.

“[W]hether he listened to Hoagy Carmichael or Cab Calloway, we would go on a musical journey for like months at a time. You would wake up to ‘Bugle Call Rag’ on the jukebox, that was his way of getting Dhani up for school. You know, loud. [Laughs] He probably would have covered Barnacle Bill the Sailor by now, you know, because he had a funny version of that. And it was all about the chords and notes and the sentiment.” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio, 2018 “My mother, ‘Who’s That Girl’ by the Eurythmics. My dad, ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ by Hoagy Carmichael.  He would go up at parties to the DJ and say, ‘I’ve got something really amazing.’ ‘Cause he was who he was, they would listen to him, and then everyone would just be bummed out, it would clear the dance floor. And then he’d come back later — ‘I’ve got something else’ — and he’d put it on again. You know, he would just do this until the DJ was like [exasperated].” - Dhani Harrison (on what songs he associates with his parents), la minute rock, Rolling Stone France, November 28, 2017

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Listening to podcasts come with unexpected side effects, for example i am now a Hoagy Carmichael fan. Thanks Malevolent

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Update with additional links:

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The music that played at the end of part 43 after Arthur full throat screams is 'come easy go easy love' by HOAGY CARMICHAEL THATS SO FUNNY

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Hoagy Carmichael and Lauren Bacall in a 1956 re-release publicity still for To Have and Have Not (1944)

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Warne Marsh: The Enigmatic Master of Cool Jazz

Introduction: Warne Marsh, a tenor saxophonist with a distinctive voice in jazz, remains one of the most celebrated and yet underappreciated figures in jazz history. Known for his cerebral approach to improvisation and his unrelenting dedication to musical innovation, Marsh’s career spanned several decades, leaving an indelible mark on cool jazz and beyond. Despite never achieving the mainstream…

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George Harrison + his passions

“George tried to teach himself. but he wasn’t making much headway. ‘I’ll never learn this,’ he used to say. I said, ‘You will, son, you will. Just keep at it.’ He kept till his fingers were bleeding.” - Louise Harrison, The Beatles

“He’d just go into another space. I felt maybe he was unhappy. He meditated for so long, for hours. It seemed to me as if he preferred to be in a meditative state than in a waking, conscious state. He liked the peace and calm.” - Pattie Boyd

“The house and the garden became an obsession with George. He found out everything there was to know about Sir Frank Crisp, how and why he built that extraordinary house and garden, why he wanted to re-create the Blue Grotto of Capri and build a mini Matterhorn in the Oxfordshire countryside. He wanted to get inside Sir Frank’s mind and fit into his old boots, and he seemed to want to do it alone. I can be obsessive, but then I get bored and need a change." - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

"He’d garden at night-time until midnight [...] He missed nearly every dinner because he was in the garden. He would be out there from first thing in the morning to the last thing at night." - Dhani Harrison, Living in the Material World

“When she first met George she didn’t know what George was talking about half the time, he was always quoting Python or ‘The Producers’. He used to say to Olivia ‘Ah my little Swedish bombshell’ which she explained she obviously didn’t look Swedish, but it was a line from the movie The Producers.” - Greg, Olivia Harrison in Sydney

“Back at Friar Park, George runs through whole scenes of The Producers word for word - acting the parts out extremely well." - Michael Palin, Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980–1988

"What was always embarrassing with him was that he knew everything backwards and forwards with Python, and he’d throw out a line expecting you to come back with whatever the response should’ve been. I didn’t know what he was talking about half the time." - Terry Gilliam, Concert for George (backstage interview)

"George quoted Bob like people quote Scripture. Bob really adored George, too. George used to hang over the balcony videoing Bob while Bob wasn’t aware of it. Bob would be sitting at the piano playing, and George would tape it and listen to it all night." - Tom Petty, Rolling Stone

"He got very into the uke. Actually, bordering on obsessively into the uke at some points, and uh, you know, he was taking me to George Formby conventions. That was when I started to notice that he was very into the ukulele. [laughs]" - Dhani Harrison, Breakfast with the Beatles

"I made some Rutle merchandise for Can’t Buy Me Lunch, but I gave it all to George who adored all Rutle stuff. I think the most successful present I ever gave him was a Rutle guitar, which Danny Ferrington made for me. It featured the Rutles looking out of the windows of a car, and George was thrilled with it." - Eric Idle, Greedy Bastard Diary

"The last time I saw George was in August, in Switzerland, on the Swiss-Italian border, where he was undergoing treatment for cancer. He played us all these old Hoagy Carmichael records. George had a lot of enthusiasms at various times, whether it was Bulgarian choirs or whatever. Once there was something he was enthusiastic about, he wanted the world to know." - Michael Palin, People

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From James Bond to Fred Astaire and Hoagy Carmichael, the "silver" necktie is a hallmark of sartorial elegance.

According to menswear guru Alan Flusser, the Macclesfield necktie, a silk group of patterns made from small weaves of diamonds, squares, and circles, became especially fashionable among well-dressed British men in the early 1920s. These small geometrics were first made in contrasting tones of gray, black, and white, giving a marquetry effect across the surface of the tie. They were the specialty of the textile weavers from Macclesfield, a small town in Lancashire, northwest England. Among the world's sartorial literati, the Macclesfield necktie continues to enjoy his long-standing reputation as the quintessence of upper-class English taste. Referred to as a 'wedding tie' in certain circles, this silvery necktie became began its venerable career as the obligatory long tie for formal day attire, meeting weddings and other daytime celebrations.

Here are a few of my own Macclesfield ties, both in the 'silver" color way

And in colors as well

Collected over the years from suppliers like Polo and Addison on Madison

And the shop where Astaire bought his own ties, Bowring Arundel of Savile Row.

Cary Grant was a fan which tells you all you need to know about these ties.

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more songs nowadays should have introductions. bring this back.

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Judy Garland and Hoagy Carmichael enjoying a night in a nightclub in 1952.

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June 3, 1999. Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images.

“[George would pause] intently over one of the two jukeboxes filled with favorites, carefully and deliberately choosing what to play next: a version of ‘The Lumberjack Song,’ Ravi Shankar, endless Dylan, ‘Oh, you must hear this, Eric.’ Early Elvis. ‘Spam.’ EC’s ‘Layla.’ And yet more Dylan. His enthusiasm was contagious. He played the jukebox to inform and instruct. He reveled in sharing his delight in all kinds of music. He would go through periods of furious passions, often lasting for months or even years at a time, when he would insist you shared the joy of Smokey Robinson or the songs of Hoagy Carmichael or the Hawaiian music of Gabby Pahinui or even the ukulele nonsense of George Formby. During this latter stage everyone had to learn the uke; even Liv he taught to strum away. He embraced all forms life. It was to be savored and enjoyed. But music was at the heart of it. It could speak more truly to the soul. And the soul was what George was about.” - Eric Idle, The Greedy Bastard Diary (x)

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Hoagy Carmichael: In Casino Royal, the first James Bond novel, author Ian Fleming describes Jams Bond as looking like Hoagy Carmichael. Except that Bond had a thin vertical scar down his right cheek and a short lock of black hair which would never stay in place which subsided to form a thick black comma above his right eye.

Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as television, microphones, and sound recordings.