- 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 performed the song 'Yabba Dabba Dabbba-Dabba Do' for the Flintstone's episode 'Hit Songwriters', in which he also played himself. The Song, written by H-B composer Hoyt Curtin, with Hanna & Barbera, is sometimes mistakenly credited to him.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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