Am I Blue (1944) Hoagy Carmichael

Am I Blue

Excerpt from "To Have And Have Not" (1944)

Hoagie Carmichael, on piano, sings with Lauren Bacall.

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[JohnnyWykes]

The guitar player is the famous Eddy Lang

[UkeRichard]

Eddie Lang died 11 years before this movie was shot...

[JohnnyWykes]

Quite right - Sorry I forgot that, he died only a couple of years after his friend Bix B. but long before his collabator Joe Venuti - the guy looks and plays like him though - could it be Ivor Mairants (I didn't know he'd ever been in movies tho)

[UkeRichard]

I don't know Ivor Mairants, but a Google search reveals some resemblance so you may well be right. He is playing a 6-strings guitar on every pic that I saw though and the guitarist in this video plays a tenor guitar (4-strings, tuned in fifths). Still, it could be him.

[robertgaudlitz]

living proof, that an original piece can very well BE the worst version of something :)

KEVIN CONROY DID THE BEST INTERPRETATION OF THIS SONG :D

[UkeRichard]

This is far from being an original version. Am I blue was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke and published in 1929.

[subg88]

Hoagy was a genius. Destroyed jazz!? He wrote some of the best jazz tunes of all time!

[iq12212]

the penguin captured this guy and batman remembered this song when in stake out

[speebyda]

Just read a scene in the book Casino Royale and Ian Fleming mentions Hoagy Carmichael as looking like James Bond (or vice a versa).

[Bonnie Speeg]

Hoagy is why we have the state of Indiana.

[John West]

Oscar Levant? Victor Borge? Carmen Cavallero? Peter Duchen? The list is long, my friend.

[John West]

In Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, too. No biggie. Sorry.

[John West]

What did ya expect?  You have heard of Martinique in the West Indies, haven't you? And would you believe that since Martinque is a departemente de france, those "black faces" are citizens of France!

[John West]

After you see Dooley Wilson's appearance in "Casablanca," as the piano cabaret singer, there's that tendency to compare that same piano character of Hoagy Carmichael in "To Have And Have Not." Well, Carmichael tried too hard to be "hip," and he just didn't make it. It's rather embarrassing to watch his attempting so hard in his piano scenes to be "with it." And the toothpick thing just doesn't cut it. Another piano player, however, is still worth watching, MGM star Oscar Levant.

[Brace Raid]

1:14 POKEMON ARPEGGIOS

[theblahman]

James Bond brought me here, Apparently Bonds appearance was originally based on Carmichael.

[Dan Doherty]

Andy Williams, the late

not Lauren