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Star Dust
(also,Stardust)
 

Written:
music 1927
lyric 1929

Music by:
Hoagy Carmichael

Words by:
Mitchell Parish

Written for: Independent Publication
(not for a Broadway show, revue, movie, etc.)
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Michael Bublé
(vocal accompaniment by Naturally 7
with Mark Small clarinet solo)

performing

"Star Dust"

at Madison Square Garden, New York
(March 20, 2010)

A Michael Bublé recording of "Star Dust"
with Naturally 7
appears on his album Crazy Love.

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From "Mitchell Parish - The Phantom Lyricist" by Cary Ginell

In 1929, Parish was asked to finish a lyric that had been partially completed. Two years earlier, a young Hoagy Carmichael had written an instrumental that he called "Star Dust." The song was just another dance band number played at a medium tempo, with a melody inspired by the phrasing of legendary cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. A snippet of a lyric had been written by a saxophonist named Wally Wilson that began: "I sometimes wonder why I spend my time dreaming of a song; A melody that haunts my reverie," but that was as far as he got. Parish added to this idea and created one of the classics in all of popular music. It was a song about a song that didn't exist; a completely new idea that would make Mitchell Parish a wealthy man. In Parish's hands, Star Dust had now become a ballad, perfect for everyone from crooners like Bing Crosby to crusty jazz singers like Louis Armstrong. The song was soon being sung by nearly every singer who graced a stage in vaudeville, on record, and radio.
   
   
   
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"Star Dust"


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