I Write The Songs #103 Hoagy Carmichael as songwriter of the week; first aired on Canalside Radio 31st Jan 2017. Now available as a podcast through Mixcloud.

A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

a lyric by Stuart Gorrell on a melody weaved by Hoagy Carmichael

part 1

1. Barbara Dickson, Stardust 4.59 – music in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics in 1929 by Mitchell Parish
2. Simon Cousins, When I’m In My Baby’s Arms 2:52 Simon Cousins – Forgiven Songs 2016
3. Lucinda Williams, Can’t Let Go 3:29 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 1998 Randy Weeks
4. Doug Seegers, Going down to the river, 4.14, 2014
5. Judee Sill Soldier Of The Heart 3:34 Abracadabra: The Asylum Years [Disc 2] Heart Food 1973 Judee Sill
6. Harry Belafonte &Miriam Makeba My Angel (Malaika) 3:15 An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba 1990 Fadhili William

part 2

1. Vintage Trouble, From My Arms 3:01 1 Hopeful Rd. 160 kbps 80 0 1
2. Santana Feat. India.Arie & Yo-Yo Ma, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 6:03 Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time Rock 2010 George Harrison
3. Aynsley Lister Crazy 3:47 Equilibrium Rock, Gnarls Barkley (2006, American soul duo CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse)
4. Little Sparrow, The Swallow Flies 3:03 Wishing Tree 2014 Katie Ware
5. Dark Green Tree, Yearn For Love 3:46 Secret Lives 2014 Brown/Cockburn
6. Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael, Rockin’ chair 3.04, 1929

part 3

1. Asa Fire On The Mountain 4:40 Asa [Asha] 2008 Cobhams Asuquo (Nigeria)
2. James Taylor, Carolina on my mind 3:56 1976
3. Maz O’Connor, Skin
4. Gotye Somebody I used to know ft Timbra 4.03 2012 New Zealand
5. Fiona Apple, Hot Knife 4:02 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do 2012 Fiona Apple
6. Ray Charles, Georgia on my mind, 3.36 1960, Hoagy Carmichael (music), Stuart Gorrell (lyrics) 1930

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