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Hoagy's Jazz

on BBC Radio 3

The last of a four-part series focusing on jazz pianist and songwriter
Hoagy Carmichael, one of the unlikeliest stars in the history of showbusiness and the owner of a "non-voice" who became one of the biggest-selling vocalists of the postwar era. Mel Hill asks how someone so devoid of the usual physical attributes of stardom could have achieved such success.
Producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Hill
Producer:
Derek Drescher

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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