Hoagy Carmichael

ID: 3076 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Hoagy Carmichael Collection of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University

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Hoagy Carmichael sitting behind a piano in a Gennett Records recording studio, Richmond, Indiana, with the band Hitch's Happy Harmonists

This file appears in: Gennett Records

Gennett Records

By Sue King, Morrison-Reeves Library and Ariana Cieslak

By 1915, the Starr Piano Company decided to start recording the discs to be played on those phonographs: records. Records were first issued under the Starr name until a separate division, Gennett Records, managed by Henry Gennett’s sons Harry,…