Editing Hoagy Carmichael (section)

=== Early years ===
On October 31, 1927, Carmichael recorded "[[Stardust (1927 song)|Star Dust]]," one of his most famous songs, at the [[Gennett Records]] studio in [[Richmond, Indiana]], playing the piano solo himself.{{sfn|Kennedy|1994a|pp=8–9}} Carmichael recruited [[Frankie Trumbauer|Frank Trumbauer]] and Bix Beiderbecke, along with members of the [[Paul Whiteman]] Orchestra that included the Dorsey brothers, to play at the late October recording session with him; it is not known which of the orchestra's musicians were at the October 31 session when "Star Dust" was initially recorded.{{sfn|Sudhalter|2002|pp=106–8}}<ref>Carmichael's "One Night in Havana" was released back-to-back with the "Star Dust" recording on Gennett's "Electrobeam" series. See {{harvnb|Kennedy|1994a|p=9}}</ref> New York's [[Mills Music]] published the song as an upbeat piano solo in January 1929 and renamed it "Stardust." (Mills Music republished the song with the addition of Mitchell Parish's lyrics in May 1929.){{sfn|Hasse|1988|p=23}} "Stardust" attracted little attention until 1930, when [[Isham Jones]] and his orchestra recorded it as a sentimental ballad with a slower tempo, the re-timing often credited to the band's arranger, [[Victor Young]]. It became a hit song, the first of many for Carmichael.{{sfn|Kennedy|1994a|pp=8–9}}{{sfn|Sudhalter|2002|pp=139–40}} Its idiosyncratic melody in medium tempo–a song about a song–later became a standard of the [[Great American Songbook]], recorded by hundreds of artists, including [[Artie Shaw]], [[Nat King Cole]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Willie Nelson]], and [[Wynton Marsalis]].{{sfn|Kennedy|1994b|p=138}}{{sfn|Sudhalter|2002|p=123}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/stardust.shtml|title=Stardust|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=December 15, 2016}}</ref>

Carmichael received more recognition after Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded "[[Washboard Blues]]" on [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor Records]] in Chicago in November 1927, with Carmichael singing and playing the piano.{{sfn|Kennedy|1994a|p=8}}{{sfn|Sudhalter|2002|pp=113–114}} Carmichael's "March of the Hoodlums" and Sheldon Brooks's "Walkin' the Dog" were produced from Carmichael's last recording session at the Gennett Records studio on May 2, 1928, with a band he had hand-selected.{{sfn|Kennedy|1994b|pp=132–134}}

In 1929, after realizing that he preferred making music and had no aptitude for or interest in becoming a lawyer (he was sacked from his job at the law firm), Carmichael moved to New York City, where he worked for a brokerage firm during the weekdays and spent his evenings composing music, including some songs for [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] musicals.{{sfn|Sudhalter|2002|p=129}} In New York, Carmichael met [[Duke Ellington]]'s agent and [[sheet music]] publisher, [[Irving Mills]], and hired him to set up recording dates. Carmichael's first major song with his own lyrics was "[[Rockin' Chair (1929 song)|Rockin' Chair]]," recorded by [[Louis Armstrong]] and [[Mildred Bailey]], and eventually with his own hand-picked studio band (featuring Beiderbecke, [[Bubber Miley]], [[Benny Goodman]], [[Tommy Dorsey]], [[Bud Freeman]], [[Eddie Lang]], [[Joe Venuti]], and [[Gene Krupa]]) on May 21, 1930.<ref>{{Harvnb|Sudhalter|2002|pp=129, 131, 143}}</ref>