Of my interviews over the years, I think my hour-long chat with song writer Hoagy Carmichael is the most important to me now. As the 27-year-old Associated Press correspondent in Las Vegas, I was ...

Hoagy Carmichael's career as one of America's great songwriters is unlike any of his peers. Carmichael, like George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, was born at the tail end of the 19th ...

If you've haven't heard of Hoagy Carmichael, you've at least heard his music. No pianist worth his salt can honestly say he has never been requested to play "Stardust." And that song, first recorded ...

Amarillo-born Mark Seliger was a lonely college freshman at what was then called East Texas State University when he first fell for Willie Nelson’s music. A new girlfriend was visiting Dallas, and he ...

Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. “I know my limitations . . . I’m not a student of music.” But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a ...

“I hate radio,” said Hoagy Carmichael. But in the five weeks since the hit songwriter* went on the air coast-to-coast (Sun. 5:30-5:45 p.m., E.S.T., CBS), radio has threatened more & more to become ...

Imagine a law-school graduate who works on Wall Street but ends up becoming one of America’s most beloved songwriters. That’s the improbable journey of Hoagy Carmichael, the man behind such timeless ...

We Are Stardust addresses notions of interconnectedness, romanticism, transience, and eternality. From scientists like Carl Sagan and Neil Degrasse Tyson to artists like David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, ...

Many albums are musically great. Some albums change music. Willie Nelson’s “Stardust” is one of those albums. Released in 1978, “Stardust” is the archetype for one of the most successful musical ...