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The Cafe Songbook
Record/Video Cabinet: Selected Recordings of
"Baltimore Oriole"
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below
include a music-video
of this page's featured song.
The year given is for when the studio
track was originally laid down
or when the live performance was given.)
Performer/Recording Index
(*indicates accompanying music-video)
Notes: This CD (originally an LP) includes "sixteen of Hoagy Carmichael's most rewarding recordings of the 1939-51 period (mostly 1942-47) all of which are his compositions. "Although the exclusion of a personnel listing and even the recording dates is inexcusable, the music overcomes the major oversight. Carmichael, who sometimes leads a trio on these performances when he is not accompanied by an orchestra (including two 1939 numbers with the Casa Loma Orchestra), is heard in prime form on such songs as "The Old Music Master," "Memphis in June," "Riverboat Shuffle," "Georgia on My Mind," "Stardust," "Baltimore Oriole" and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening." This album is worth searching for since the material is not yet readily available on CD. ~ Scott Yanow Whilst perhaps better known as a songwriter, Hoagy was also a hugely successful singer in his own right, unsurprisingly specialising in interpretations of his own work. His own recording career began taking off in 1927 with Stardust, then an instrumental track and to which Mitchell Parish would add lyrics two years later." Personnel: Hoagy Carmichael (vocals, piano). Recording information: 02/25/1939-03/01/1951." Scott Yanow at CD Universe.
Carmichael also recorded Baltimore Oriole for the jazz album Hoagy Sings Carmichael on Pacific Jazz in 1956 on which he appears only on vocals accompanied by Harry "Sweets" Edison, Don Fagerquist, Conrad Gozzo, Ray Linn (trumpet); Al Hendrickson (guitar); Jimmy Rowles (piano, celeste); Ralph Pena, Joe Mondragon (bass); Nick Fatool, Irv Cottler (drums)