Hoagy Carmichael - Sometimes I Wonder

Title: Sometimes I Wonder Artist: Hoagy Carmichael Release Date: 11/16/1999 Label: ASV/Living Era Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 743625534528 Genre: Vocal Music Styles: Show Tunes, Early Jazz, American Popular Song, Cast Recordings, Standards, Traditional Pop, Tin Pan Alley Pop Moods: Reserved, Sentimental, Calm/Peaceful, Poignant, Soothing, Sweet, Gentle, Intimate, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Sophisticated, Springlike, Wistful, Cheerful, Elegant, Innocent, Romantic, Stylish Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Stardust
2. Washboard Blues
3. Rampart Street Blues
4. Rockin' Chair
5. Georgia on My Mind
6. Bessie Couldn't Help It
7. Lazy River
8. Sing It Way Down Low
9. Snowball
10. Lazy Bones
11. One Morning in May
12. Judy
13. Moon Country
14. Two Sleepy People
15. Riverboat Shuffle
16. New Orleans
17. The Old Music Master
18. Don't Forget to Say No Baby
19. Hong Kong Blues
20. Huggin' and Chalkin'
21. I May Be Wrong
22. Ole Buttermilk Sky
23. A Tune for Humming
24. Memphis in June
25. Rockin' Chair

Year Type Label Catalog # 1999 CD ASV/Living Era 5345

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Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael wrote some of the 20th century's most endearing and enduring popular songs. Active as pianist and vocalist and later famous as a character actor in motion pictures, Carmichael left behind a trail of phonograph recordings both timeless and charmingly dated. Living Era's Sometimes I Wonder brings together some of his best work recorded between November 1927 and December 1947. Some of these performances use drawling Southern dialects that typify a sizeable portion of the material composed and performed in the U.S. entertainment marketplace during the first half of the 20th century. The son of an electrician and a movie theater pianist, young Hoagy Carmichael received musical instruction from his mother, Lida Robison Carmichael, in his hometown of Bloomington, IN. He also learned how to swing by hanging out in the cathouses and speakeasies of Indianapolis, developing his technique under the influence of African-American ragtime pianist Reggie Duval. Part of the charm in Carmichael's musical legacy is his unusual singing voice; he hadn't set out to be a vocalist and was at first reluctant to sing at all in front of a microphone. His knack for conjuring pleasant melodies is well documented here and elsewhere; most importantly he would wish for everyone to recognize his primary influence. In -Stardust Road, his first autobiography which was published in 1946, Carmichael immortalized his poetically charged friendship with Bix Beiderbecke, describing the two of them sprawled in front of the phonograph in 1924, sipping caustic prohibition whiskey while listening to Igor Stravinsky's Firebird. Part of the magic of that intimate scenario is present in all of Hoagy Carmichael's best melodies. Living Era's Sometimes I Wonder spans the first two decades of Carmichael's career, documenting his collaborations with some of the most influential jazz musicians of his generation, including the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Red Norvo, Louis Armstrong, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Bubber Miley and, of course, Bix Beiderbecke. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide

Name Credits Abe Lincoln Trombone Albert Nicholas Sax (Alto), Clarinet Arnold Brillhardt Sax (Alto) Arthur Schutt Piano Artie Bernstein Bass Artie Shapiro Bass Benny Goodman Clarinet Bix Beiderbecke Cornet Bobby Guy Trumpet Boyce Cullen Trombone Bruce Hudson Trumpet Bubber Miley Trumpet Bud Freeman Sax (Tenor) Buddy Cole Piano Carl Kress Guitar Charles Strickfaden Sax (Baritone), Sax (Alto) Charlie Holmes Sax (Alto), Clarinet Chauncey Moorhouse Vibraphone Chester Hazlett Clarinet (Bass) Eddie Lang Guitar Ella Logan Vocals Fred Murray Trumpet Gene Krupa Drums Harold MacDonald Vibraphone, Drums Harry Goodman Tuba Henry "Red" Allen Trumpet Hoagy Carmichael Piano, Vocals Irving Brodsky Celeste, Piano J.C. Higginbotham Trombone Jack Mayhew Clarinet, Sax (Alto) Jack Teagarden Trombone Jim Taft Bass Jimmy Dorsey Trumpet, Sax (Alto), Clarinet Joe Tarto Bass Joe Venuti Violin John Cyr Drums Luis Russell Piano Manny Klein Trumpet Maurice Freedman Sax (Tenor) Min Leibrook Sax (Baritone) Mischa Russell Violin Otis Johnson Trumpet Paul Barbarin Drums, Vibraphone Perry Botkin Guitar, Banjo Peter Dempsey Compilation Phil Duffy Design Pops Foster Bass Ray Crick Compilation Ray Lodwig Trumpet Red Norvo Xylophone Scrappy Lambert Vocals Si Zentner Trombone Skeets Herfurt Sax (Alto) Spike Jones Drums Stan King Drums Steve Brown Bass Teddy Hill Sax (Tenor) Tommy Dorsey Trombone Uan Rasey Trumpet Wilbur Hall Guitar Will Johnson Guitar