Vol. 18 - Hoagy Carmichael: La Selection 1927-1942

Hoagy Carmichael, L'Art Vocal (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 15, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: L'art Vocal
• ASIN: B0000045HQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,376,525 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stardust [Instrumental]

2. So Tired

3. Harvey

4. Rockin' Chair

5. High and Dry

6. Georgia on My Mind

7. One Night in Havana

8. Bessie Couldn't Help It

9. Lazy River

10. Jewish Boy Blues

11. Come Easy, Go Easy Love

12. Sing It Way Down Low

13. Lazy Bones

14. Judy

15. Two Sleepy People

16. Hong Kong Blues

17. Riverboat Shuffle

18. New Orleans

19. Little Old Lady

20. The Old Music Master

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Sampler of a Good Vocalist (and Better Songwriter), December 30, 2000

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Marc Dolan (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vol. 18 - Hoagy Carmichael: La Selection 1927-1942 (Audio CD)

The contents of this whole series (L'Art Vocal) is worth getting, even if the import prices make you look for the same material elsewhere. If you can stomach the price, however, this is a very good sampler of Hoagy Carmichael. He's not as important an interwar vocalist as many of the others in this series, but he is a wonderful songwriter and you get to hear his interpretations of the songs of this CD. By a brilliant stroke, the compilers have bracketed this album with two very different versions of Carmichael's greatest song, "Stardust." The first is the sweet, clean one, Carmichael "and friends" cut for Gennett in 1927; the second is a much more obviously arranged version from the 1940s. The trip between the two says it all.