Category: Hoagy Carmichael
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Garcia and The Great American Songbook
Per wiki, The Great American Songbook is “the canon of significant early-20th-century American jazz standards and popular songs“. It is put out by The Great American Songbook Foundation, fittingly enough. I have so damn much to learn about this stuff. It’s just a gaping hole in my (admittedly limited) musicological understanding. I just fell into…
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“Hoagy Carmichael is making a fortune – Jerry Garcia is starving”
So said in August 1969 one David Rubinson, Fillmore Records head who had been a producer at Columbia Records, working with Big Brother, Mike Bloomfield, Moby Grape, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal, and other groups (“if picasso” 1969). It’s a good line. It especially caught my eye because, in sniffing around 12/12/73, I went…