Hoagy Carmichael
native son

Bloomington

Hoagland Howard Carmichael was born 22 November 1899 in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.

He died 27 December 1981 in Rancho Mirage, California, but is buried back in Bloomington, Indiana, his home town.

Hoagy's appeared in motion picture films
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• Johnny Angel (1945)


According to The Smithsonian Institute, Hoagy was composer of the most recorded song in the history of the world, "Stardust". That song was composed in Bloomington, Indiana.

Hoagy's other hits were
• Am I Blue?
• Georgia
• I Get Along Without You Very Well
• In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening -- Oscar for Best Song in Here Comes the Groom
• Lazy Bones
• Memphis in June
• Old Buttermilk Sky
• Skylark
• Small Fry
• The Nearness of You
• Up a Lazy River
  
  
Hoagy Carmichael is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.