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Thread #41197   Message #104710
Posted By: Sourdough
13-Aug-99 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: As Time Goes By
Subject: RE: Tune Req: As Time Goes Buy
I don't know whether it is still available anywhere but there is a double album of music from the television series I did with Hoagy - "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop", Songs for Children by Hoagy Carmichael played by Stark Reality. It was published by Ahmad Jamal. It is interesting because it is a group of about a dozen songs by Carmichael that you will never hear anywhere else.

Now that I think of it, the songs were published as sheet music in a softcover book. I have them but the book's in storage (i.e. impossible to get at - might as well be in another galaxy). The title was, I think "Hoagy Carmichael's songs for Children". He wrote them for his own kids when they were small which wold have been in the Fifties. They really are very nice, simple songs that children respond to. Musically, they are more complex than three chords but not so much that kids can't enjoy singing (along with) them. They do have HC's laid back signature style though.

Sourdough