Hoagy Carmichael

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer pianist singer actor and bandleader He is best known for composing the music for Stardust Georgia on My Mind The Nearness of You and Heart and Soul four of the mostrecorded American songs of all time American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song The Great Innovators 19001950 that he was the most talented inventive sophisticated and jazzoriented of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century