Holds the record for longest song title: "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a
Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doing
Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on my Seat-o Hirohito Blues".
Hoagy wrote the song 'Yabba Dabba Dabbba-Dabba Do' for the Flintstone's episode 'Hit Songwriters'.
James Bond Creator Ian Fleming, stated in his 1953 novel Casino Royale,
that 007 bore a striking resemblance to Hoagy
The name Hoagy came from a traveling circus called "The Hoaglands" who lived with his mother while she was pregnant.
Originally went to law school at Indiana University before turning to music.
Judy Garland got her name from a popular song that he wrote in the early
1930s, about a girl whose voice is as fresh as spring.
Pictured on one of a set of four 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps in
the Legends of American Music series, issued 11 September 1996,
celebrating American songwriters. Others honored in this issue are
Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, and Dorothy Fields.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.
Interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
One of the high school auditoriums in Bloomington, Indiana, is named for him.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
One, 1981-1985, pages 130-133. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1998.