"Riverboat Shuffle" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...

 with lyrics by Irving Mills

Irving Mills

Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...

, Mitchell Parish

Mitchell Parish

Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...

 and Dick Voynow. First recorded by Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.With Louis Armstrong, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s...

 and The Wolverines

The Wolverines

The Wolverines were an American jazz band. They were one of the most successful territory bands of the American Midwest in the 1920s.-History:...

 in 1924, it was Carmichael's first composition and become a Dixieland

Dixieland

Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s.Well-known jazz standard songs from the...

 standard

Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions which are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be...

. The Wolverines released the song as a Gennet 78, 5454-A, in 1924. Bix Beiderbecke recorded a second version of the song in 1927 with Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra which was released as an Okeh 78, 40822. Carmichael later wrote many popular jazz standards, including "Stardust

Stardust (song)

"Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish. Originally titled "Star Dust", Carmichael first recorded the song at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana...

" (1929), "Georgia on My Mind

Georgia on My Mind

"Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...

" (1930) and "Lazy River

Lazy river

A lazy river is a water ride found in many amusement parks or water parks. They are also found at some resorts and recreation centers. It usually consists of shallow pool that flows similarly to a river....

" (1931).

Renditions

• Frankie Trumbauer
  Frankie Trumbauer
  Orie Frank Trumbauer was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played the C-melody saxophone which, in size, is between an alto and tenor saxophone...
  
   and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke (1927), OKEH 40822
• Red Nichols
  Red Nichols
  Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader.Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett describes him as "an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is...
  
   and His Five Pennies (1927), E24225 BRUNSWICK 6820
• Benson Orchestra of Chicago (1925), 32715-4 VICTOR 19688B
• Glen Gray
  Glen Gray
  Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra....
  
   and the Casa Loma Orchestra
  Casa Loma Orchestra
  The Casa Loma Orchestra was a popular American dance band active from 1927 to 1963. From 1929 until the rapid multiplication in the number of swing bands from 1935 on, the Casa Loma Orchestra was one of the top North American dance bands...
  
   (1939), 64962-A DECCA 2398B
• Adrian Rollini
  Adrian Rollini
  Adrian Francis Rollini was a multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music. He played the bass saxophone, piano, xylophone, and many other instruments. Rollini is also known for introducing the goofus in jazz music...
  
   and His Orchestra (1934), 38878 DECCA 265B
• Richard Hitter's Cabineers (1925), SAH4 CLOVER EBS1063
• Muggsy Spanier
  Muggsy Spanier
  Francis Joseph Julian "Muggsy" Spanier was a prominent cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene....
  
   Ragtime Band (1939), 043894-2 BLUEBIRD 10532
• Sidney Bechet
  Sidney Bechet
  Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist...
  
   with Claude Luter
  Claude Luter
  Claude Luter 23 July 1923, Paris – 6 October 2006, Paris) was a jazz clarinetist who also doubled on soprano saxophone.He began on trumpet, but switched to clarinet. He might be best known for being an accompanist to Sidney Bechet when he was in Paris, but he also worked with Barney Bigard...
  
  (1949), BLUENOTE BN568
• Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band, V-DISC 307B1
• Jimmy Joy's St. Anthony's Hotel Orchestra featuring Jimmy Maloney (1925), 9108-A OKEH 40388

External links

• "Riverboat Shuffle" at jazzstandards.com