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]

@JohnnyWykes

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

[JohnnyWykes]

@UkeRichard 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]

@JohnnyWykes

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]

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

[bogeyat3]

Lauren Bacall has a deeper voice than little Hoagy, funny!

[matchmesidney]

@PeterRossi44 Quote from IMDb: Although this legend about Andy Williams and Lauren Bacall is so deeply entrenched that you'll find it repeated even in some film reference books, it's not true. Director Howard Hawks, when asked about this, explained that he had indeed planned to have Andy Williams sing for Bacall, but after hearing Bacall sing during the rehearsals for the scene he abandoned that plan and ended up using Bacall's own voice. (Source: Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride)

[NancyDrewe]

@subg88 Someone actually had to ask that?? I despair of people sometimes. LOL

[PeterRossi44]

I may be incorrect but I believe that a young Andy Williams was OD's the singing Voice for Betty Joan Perske (PKA: Becall)?

[subg88]

@Randidan

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

[subg88]

@jay210592

He means merry or joyous, the original meaning of the word.

[DerekWilliamsMusic]

@73380401 You lie.

[73380401]

@DerekWilliamsMusic

Every time a homosexual person is on television filthy innuendo comes out of their hypocritical mouths so don't start on about offensive words.Keep your shame to yourself and stop parading it around.

[DerekWilliamsMusic]

@MrMudak1000 Indeed we have not destroyed any such thing. If you want English not to evolve, then I take it you talk like Shakespeare? Otherwise, has your education been so limited that you don't understand that many words have different meanings? Like 'hip', 'cool' - do you insist on their literal meanings too?

Gay is (or was until you homophobes repossessed it to abuse us), the *only* positive colloquialism for homosexual. Every single other one is offensive, uncalled for, insulting, like you

[22Burnette]

Wow!

[jay210592]

what does he mean with

... was i gay ...

I can't imagine that he means homosexual.

Sorry for my bad englisch :)