And that's what traditionally happened when anyone started playing the jaunty bass part of the song "Heart and Soul ... Music by Hoagy Carmichael; lyrics by Frank Loesser. The year was 1938.

“Heart and Soul” even became part of American everyday ... and introducing Carmichael’s work to a new generation. Hoagy ...

The melody was composed by Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael ... After it skyrocketed to number one, “Heart and Soul” launched Carmichael’s career. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington ...

Composed by Hoagland Howard “Hoagy” Carmichael ... Frank Loesser added the incomparable lyric and “Heart and Soul” was born. The song knocked around Paramount Studios until it was recorded ...

Let’s hear two now. Here is Mel Tormé in 1951 with the most enduring song by the duo of Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, “Heart and Soul,” on Afterglow. Two standards from 1938 written ...

“Toni and I were listening to an old Hoagy Carmichael recording of some ... Lazy Bones,” “Georgia On My Mind,” “Heart and Soul,” “Up a Lazy River,” “Two Sleepy People ...

Hoagland Carmichael was born in ... that ‘good for the soul’ country,” he created music that was true to his Hoosier roots. Hoagy’s simple melodies and catchy lyrics had widespread appeal ...

In their current Metropolitan Room gig, "Dreaming of a Song: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael," they ... "Skylark" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). "Heart and Soul" (lyrics by Frank Loesser), as Stritch ...

America's brightest musical stars have queued up to record Carmichael's songs ever since he produced his first hit, Star Dust, in 1927. Many of his most celebrated numbers, such as Heart And Soul ...

Great American Songbook composer, Hoagy Carmichael, (1899-1981) penned many more standards besides the timeless “Stardust" and “Georgia On My Mind..." He also is credited with writing “The Nearness of ...