Editing Hoagy Carmichael (section)

=== 1950s ===
During the 1950s, the public's musical preferences shifted toward rhythm and blues and rock and roll, ending the careers of most older artists. Carmichael's songwriting career also slowed down, but he continued to perform.{{sfn|Gugin|St. Clair|2015|p=49}}

[[File:Hoagy Carmichael George Gobel 1954.JPG|thumb|Carmichael sharing the ''Saturday Night Revue'' duties with [[George Gobel]], 1953]]

In the early 1950s, variety shows were particularly popular on television. Carmichael's most notable appearance was as the host of ''Saturday Night Review'' in June 1953, a summer replacement series for ''[[Your Show of Shows]]''.{{sfn|Hasse|1988|p=11}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Television in Review |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 8, 1953}}</ref> He was also a regular cast member in the first season of NBC's western TV series ''[[Laramie (TV series)|Laramie]]'' (1959–63), playing the character role of Jonesy the ranch hand.{{sfn|Hasse|1988|p=11}}

As his songwriting career started to fade, Carmichael's marriage also dissolved. He and his wife Ruth divorced in 1955.<ref>Ruth Carmichael later married [[Verne Mason]], a Los Angeles physician. See {{harvnb|Sudhalter|2002|pp=285–87, 318–19, 322}}.</ref>

The ''Johnny Appleseed Suite'', Carmichael's second classical work for orchestra, suffered the same ill fate as his earlier attempt, ''Brown County Autumn''. The suite received little notice and only limited success,{{sfn|Hasse|1988|p=11}} but Carmichael remained financially secure due to the royalties from his past hits. During the 1940s and 1950s Carmichael also wrote more than a dozen songs for children, including "The Whale Song," "Merry-Go-Round," and "Rocket Ship."<ref>{{cite book |author=Hoagy Carmichael and J.P. Miller |title=Hoagy Carmichael's Songs for Children |publisher=Golden Press |location=New York |year=1957 |pages=9–11, 25–29 |oclc=15369706}}</ref>