"Up a Lazy River"

Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana, just a little more than a month before the turn of the last century, to a hard-working family living in dire poverty. And for all the seeming ease of his many hundreds of tunes — fifty of which were major hits in their day and many of which have taken their rightful place in the Great America…