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Happy birthday to Hoagy Carmichael, who wrote the melodies of "Skylark," "Stardust," "How Little We Know," "Lazy Bones," and "Georgia on My Mind."
You may have seen him in such movies as "To Have or Have Not" and "The Best Years of Our Lives." He won an Academy Award for "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Carmichael, a graduate of the University of Indiana in Bloomington, died on December 29, 1981, at the age of 82.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Happy birthday, Mr. C.!
Posted by: Laura Orem | November 22, 2009 at 12:06 PM