New Hoagy Carmichael box-set on Avid

[ghost of miles]

Posted to Yahoo Songbirds:

The following 10-CD set of "live performances" is due for release shortly on the

Avid label out of the UK. This is the company that released the recent reissue

of the "Bing Crosby Musical Autobiography" CD set from the Decca vaults:

"Hoagy Carmichael - In Person 1925-1955" - 10 CDs AMBX150 (5022810215028)

At last, available for the first time the definitive study of Hoagy Carmichael

in a splendid 10 CD box set from the masters of re-mastered nostalgia... AVID

Entertainment!

Our collection follows Hoagy from his earliest moments on record with the likes

of Hitch's Happy Harmonists, Paul Whiteman and Louis Armstrong into the 1930's

where he was to have his most fruitful period and arguably his greatest success

with such classics as Star Dust, Rockin' Chair and Georgia On My Mind.

Our journey continues into the 40's and 50's where the master not only produces

great new work but creates new versions of old classics often better sung and

better realised than the earlier 20's and 30's recordings! Decca recordings are

heavily featured throughout the box set alongside many tracks which first

appeared on "V" Disc as well as a variety of "bootleg" labels. For the first

time, the ARA label is represented featuring Hoagy as singer and pianist singing

such classics as Snowball and Lazy Bones and perhaps foreshadowing the likes of

Elton John and Billy Joel!

For an untrained musician Hoagy Carmichael made an enormous contribution to 20th

Century music and left us a magnificent legacy of standards as this well

packaged and re-mastered box set illustrates. It is sadly perhaps, a lost era

now, as Hoagy said in 1979 " I could have accomplished a hell of a lot more...

but rock just knocked me out. I just quit almost on account of rock n roll!"

His last hit was in 1950 but his musical legacy will live on forever.

CD1

HITCH'S HAPPY HARMONISTS

1. Boneyard Shuffle

2. Washboard Blues

HOAGY CARMICHAEL AND HIS PALS

3. One Night In Havana

4. Friday Night

5. Star Dust

6. When Baby Sleeps

PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA

7. Washboard Blues

JEAN GOLDETTE & HIS ORCHESTRA

8. My Ohio Home

9. So Tired

CARMICHAEL'S COLLEGIANS

10. March Of The Hoodlums

11. Smile

12. Walkin' The Dog

13. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

14. Rockin' Chair

15. March Of The Hoodlums

16. Walkin' The Dog

17. Sittin' And Whittlin'

THE COTTON PICKERS

18. St. Louis Gal

IRVING MILLS & HIS HOTSY TOTSY GANG

19. Harvey

20. March Of The Hoodlums

21. Star Dust

ED LANG & HIS ORCHESTRA

22. What Kind Of Man Is You?

23. Walkin' The Dog

24. March Of The Hoodlums

PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA

25. Washboard Blues

ED LANG & HIS ORCHESTRA

26. Walkin' The Dog

CD2

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER & HIS ORCHESTRA

1. Manhattan Rag

IRVING MILLS & HIS HOTSY TOTSY GANG

2. Manhattan Rag

3. What Kind Of Man Is You?

LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA

4. Rockin Chair

IRVING MILLS & HIS HOTSY TOTSY GANG

5. High And Dry

6. Barbaric

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

7. Rockin' Chair

8. Barnacle Bill The Sailor

9. Georgia On My Mind

10. One Night In Havana

11. Bessie Couldn't Help It

12. Lazy River

13. Papa's Gone Bye-Bye Blues

14. Just Forget

SUNNY CLAPP & HIS BAND O'SUNSHINE

15. Come Easy, Go Easy Love

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

16. Dance Medley No. 1: In The Still Of The Night * Washboard Blues * Georgia On

My Mind * Rockin' Chair

17. Dance Medley No. 2: Rockin' Chair * Lazy River * Daybreak * Georgia On My

Mind * Rockin' Chair

18. After Twelve O'Clock

19. Sing It Way Down Low

20. Thanksgivin'

HOAGY CARMICHAEL (piano & vocal)

21. Snowball

22. Lazybones

23. One Morning In May

CD3

HOAGY CARMICHAEL (piano & vocal)

1. Star Dust

2. Cosmics

3. Washboard Blues

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

4. Judy

5. Moon Country

6. Bessie Couldn't Help It

HOAGY CARMICHAEL (piano & vocal)

7. Medley: Judy * Moon Country

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

8. Two Sleepy People

9. Hong Kong Blues

10. Riverboat Shuffle

11. New Orleans

CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA WITH HOAGY CARMICHAEL

12. Washboard Blues

13. Little Old Lady

HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH JACK TEAGARDEN & HIS ORCHESTRA

14. Two Sleepy People

15. That's Right - I'm Wrong

16. Medley: Washboard Blues * Lazybones

17. Medley: Small Fry * Rockin' Chair

18. Star Dust

FRANCES LANGFORD

19. Baltimore Oriole

AL DONAHUE & HIS ORCHESTRA

20. Poor Old Joe

HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH BOB CROSBY & HIS ORCHESTRA

21. Stardust

HOAGY CARMICHAEL TRIO

22. The Old Music Master

23. Old Man Harlem

24. Judy

25. Star Dust

26. Don't Forget To Say 'No' Baby

27. Hong Kong Blues

CD4

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

1. No More Toujours L'Amour

2. A World Of No Goodbyes

3. Sweet Lorraine

4. Vine Street Parade

5. The Whale Song

6. My Christmas Song For You

7. How Little We Know

8. Somewhere On Via Roma

9. Billy-A-Dick

10. Hong Kong Blues

11. Baltimore Oriole

12. Star Dust

13. Memphis In June

14. Am I Blue?

15. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

15. Sleepy Time Gal

16. Ginger And Spice

17. Ole Buttermilk Sky

18. I Can't Get Started

19. I Don't Know Why

20. Walk It Off

21. It Ain't Gonna Be Like That

CD5

HOAGY CARMICHAEL V-DISCS

1. Baltimore Oriole

2. Hong Kong Blues

3. Star Dust

4. No More Toujours L'Amour

5. Billy-A-Dick

6. Memphis In June

7. Sleepy Time Gal

8. Ginger And Spice

9. Medley : Am I Blue? * How Little We Know * Hong Kong Blues

10. Everybody's Seen Him But His Daddy

11. Everybody's Seen Him But His Daddy

12. Rogue River Valley

13. Riverboat Shuffle

14. Riverboat Shuffle

15. Riverboat Shuffle

16. Two Sleepy People

17. Two Sleepy People

18. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

19. The Old Spinning Wheel

20. Huggin' And Chalkin'

21. No More Toujours L'Amour

HOAGY CARMICHAEL RADIO SHOW EXCERPTS

22. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

23. Singin' Down The Road

24. Memphis In June

25. Cranky Old Yank

26. Small Fry

27. Little Old Lady

28. Down T'Uncle Bills

29. There's Nobody Home On The Range

30. Riverboat Shuffle

31. Lazybones

CD6

HOAGY CARMICHAEL 1948 'MARCH OF DIMES' RADIO TRANSCRIPT

1. Stardust

2. My How The Times Goes By

3. Civilization

4. Hong Kong Blues

5. Dialogue

6. Naughty Angeline

7. The Whiffenpoof Song

8. Great Day

9. Casanova Cricket

HOAGY CARMICHAEL BBC BROADCASTS

10. Intro. & Stardust

11. Riverboat Shuffle

12. Conversation with Mark White

13. Old Man Harlem

14. Baltimore Oriole

15. Conversation with Mark White

16. Memphis In June

17. Riverboat Shuffle

18. The Monkey Song

19. I Get Along Without You Very Well

20. Conversation with Peter Fettes

21. The Sad Cowboy

22. Baltimore Oriole

23. Conversation with Peter Fettes

24. The Old Music Master

25. Conversation with Peter Fettes, Star Dust & sign off

HOAGY CARMICHAEL ON BING CROSBY RADIO SHOW

26. Bing Crosby & Hoagy Carmichael: Comedy Patter

27. Ole Buttermilk Sky

HOAGY CARMICHAEL 'GUEST STAR' RADIO TRANSCRIPTS

28. The Love Nest

29. It's A Good Day

30. Am I Blue?

31. Singin' Down The Road

32. I Want To Be Happy

33. Ole Buttermilk Sky

HOAGY CARMICHAEL 1952 RADIO PROGRAMME

34. I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody

35. Rockin' Chair

36. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

CD7

HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH VARIOUS ACCOMPANIMENTS

1. Huggin' And Chalkin'

2. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)

3. Talking Is A Woman

4. Ole Buttermilk Sky

5. Sh-h, The Old Man's Sleepin'

6. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

7. Riverboat Shuffle

8. Rockin' Chair

9. Georgia On My Mind

10. Casanova Cricket

11. A Man Could Be A Wonderful Thing

12. A Tune For Humming

13. Put Yourself In My Place, Baby

14. Who Killed 'Er?

15. The Sad Cowboy

16. I'm A-Comin' A-Courtin' Corabelle

17. Ok'l Baby Dok'l

18. Gonna Get A Girl

19. For Every Man There's A Woman

20. The Feathery Feeling

21. Memphis In June

22. Ten To One It's Tennessee

23. Bubble-Loo, Bubble-Loo

24. Fightin' Love

25. Grandma Teeter-Totter

26. Laughing Boy

27. I've Been Hit

28. An Old Piano Plays The Blues

CD8

HOAGY CARMICHAEL WITH VARIOUS ACCOMPANIMENTS

1. Chocolate Whiskey And Vanilla Gin

2. Three Rivers

3. Crocodile Tears

4. Crime And Punishment

5. That's A Plenty

6. The Darktown Strutters' Ball

7. The Old Piano Roll Blues

8. Stay With The Happy People

9. Somebody Stole My Horse And Wagon

10. Coney Island Washboard

11. Some Days There Just Ain't No Fish

12. Cincinnati Dancing Pig

13. I'm Movin' On

14. Cindy

15. Ida Red

16. The Golden Rocket

17. The Aba Daba Honeymoon

18. My Resistance Is Low

19. Sacramento

20. I'm Waiting Just For You

21. Woman Is A Five Letter Word

22. Flap Your Elbows, Spin Your Ears And Fly Away

23. Rotation Blues

24. Drip Drop

25. Happy Hoagy's Medley : I Can't Give You Anything But Love * Ivory Rag *

The Darktown Strutters' Ball

26. The Crazy Otto Rag

27. Lazy River

28. When Love Goes Wrong

29. Love Will Soon Be Here

CD9

HOAGY PLAYS BALLADS FOR DANCING (all compositions by Hoagy Carmichael)

HOAGY CARMICHAEL & HIS ORCHESTRA

1. I Walk With Music

2. Skylark

3. I Get Along Without You Very Well

4. Two Sleepy People

5. The Lamplighter's Serenade

6. Heart And Soul

7. The Nearness Of You

8. Ivy

9. One Morning In May

10. How Little We Know

11. Blue Orchids

12. Star Dust

PRIVATE RECORDINGS (1939-1951)

13. They All Done Gone With The Wind

14. Poor Old Joe

15. Lazy River

16. Ev'ntide

17. I Get Along Without You Very Well

18. How Little We Know

19. Billy-A-Dick

20. Look Out Below

21. Drip Drop

22. No More Toujours L'Amour

23. Baltimore Oriole

24. Ginger And Spice

25. Memphis In June

26. I Walk Alone

27. Kinda Lonesome

28. Messin' Around

29. Star Dust

CD10

1. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: My Sweet

2. THE BOSWELL SISTERS: Song Of Spring

3. THE CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA: Moonburn

4. ETHEL WATERS: Bread And Gravy

5. BENNY GOODMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA: Sing Me A Swing Song

6. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: Ev'ntide

7. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: Lyin' To Myself

8. TEDDY WILSON & HIS ORCHESTRA: April In My Heart

9. LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ORCHESTRA: Jubilee

10. SARAH VAUGHAN: The Nearness Of You

11. DOROTHY LAMOUR: Kinda Lonesome

12. CONNIE BOSWELL: Heart And Soul

13. BOB CROSBY & HIS ORCHESTRA: Blue Orchids

14. GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA: The Rumba Jumps

15. GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA: Ooh, What You Said!

16. BING CROSBY: Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind

17. BERYL DAVIS: I Should Have Known You Years Ago

18. GENE KRUPA & HIS ORCHESTRA: Skylark

19. GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA: We're The Couple In The Castle

20. FRANK SINATRA: The Lamplighter's Serenade

21. JO STAFFORD: Ivy

22. KAY STARR: A Woman Likes To Be Told

23. BING CROSBY: In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening

24. RAY ANTHONY & HIS ORCHESTRA: I Guess It Was You All The Time

25. JANE RUSSELL: Ain't There Anyone Here For Love?

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[Matthew]

Thanks for the heads-up on this set GofM. Probably have to get this off ebay when it comes out.

[paul secor]

Man, I like Hoagy Carmichael, but you could give me another lifetime and I probably would never listen to ten CDs - pass.

[medjuck]

These aren't all "live performances" are they?

[jazzbo]

No, they're not, I have about half or more of this material on cds from JSP, King Jazz, RCA, etc.

[LAL]

Thanks for heads up - will be looking out for this.

[Ed S]

I'm interested in this as well. I've only got the Hoagy Sings Carmichae disc that came out several years ag but enjoy that enough to be very curious.l

Edited July 24, 2006 by Ed Swinnich

[BERIGAN]

Man, that is a lot of Hoagy! (In case you didn't know) Perhaps some of the later stuff is interesting, but I think I will stay with the old RCA cd I have of his work....

[ghost of miles]

I have a fair amount of this material as well, but I'm really interested in the radio broadcasts. I'll probably spring for it if I can find it at a decent price... esp. since I'm doing jazz radio in the heart of Hoagy country (his gravesite is about five blocks from where I live, and I usually pass it on my morning run).

[Chuck Nessa]

I believe Avid is a US company hiding under a phony English identity to escape US copyright laws.

[jazzbo]

Overstock.com had one copy of this earlier for about 51.00 and $1.40 shipping!

[BruceH]

I'm interested in this as well. I've only got the Hoagy Sings Carmichae disc that came out several years ag but enjoy that enough to be very curious.l

Me too. Ten CD's is a Hell of a lot, but if I can find it at a yardsale or something...

[jazzbo]

Well, I'm enjoying this set.

Nice basic compact packaging. Nice notes. Decent sound. I feel the price I paid (fifty-two bucks) is low enough to make me not sweat the duplication I have and enjoy the music I don't have.

Edited December 20, 2006 by jazzbo

[BruceH]

To me he'll always be "Cricket."

[jazzbo]

I've never seen him in the role, but can imagine that he'd make an impression!

[Matthew]

Well, I'm enjoying this set.

Nice basic compact packaging. Nice notes. Decent sound. I feel the price I paid (fifty-two bucks) is low enough to make me not sweat the duplication I have and enjoy the music I don't have.

Anyone else buy this set? How's the music? Inquiring minds need to know.