Small Fry

Vocal: Mildred Bailey, Music: Hoagy Carmichael, Lyrics: Frank Loesser

With a wink at the boy who’d rather “see the world” than sit at a desk in a schoolroom, I offer you this classic jazzy little tune, “Small Fry,” by the rightly-famed Hoagy Carmichael. Carmichael belonged to a group of American song writers associated with what was called Tin Pan Alley in New York at the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th c…