Kate Borger celebrates two November birthday celebrants who had major impact on American music in the 20th Century - Hoagy Carmichael (born November 22, 1899) and Johnny Mercer (November 18, 1908)
Carmichael and Mercer wrote songs that are iconic in the American popular songbook. They even wrote more than a dozen tunes together!
Some of their tunes Kate samples include:
Accentuate the Positive; That Old Black Magic; The Nearness of You; Come Rain or Come Shine; How Little We Know; Stardust; Skylark and more.
Hear performances by Sarah Vaughan, Willie Nelson, Curtis Fuller, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald and Hoagy Carmichael, too. "Rhythm-a-ning" on WZUM, The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel. Friday morning at 10 and Saturday from 11 a.m. until noon on WZUM - 101.1 FM or wzum.org streaming worldwide - or talk to your smart speaker and ask her to "Play WZUM!”
Hoagy Carmichael, 1947
Johnny Mercer, William P. Gottlieb Collection c. 1947