My mom once told me this was her favorite song, but couldn't remember who sang it. When watching the 5th season, Episode 4, of The Crown, they played it! However, Mom's now 100 years old and wouldn't recognize it if I played it. Doctors are giving her about a month left to live, and I wish she could hear it and remember it one last time. I'm going to play it for her anyway.
@@brentscarborough3700 I always mix this up I've been through this before I get the name of this associated with an instrumental … it just goes Daã Daã Daà Daå DuDuDu Dah Dah Dah Dah DDDaa$ ☎️📞🔦 it must be a Benny Goodman
@@HappyZazzling yeah I think it will stick , it was a magic click to from Hoagey on Wikipedia to Tin Pan Alley being sort of a Tower of Babel of sheet music sort of fell down and some of those artists remained since the late 19th century they have preserved it these 5 brill building took over etc . Then Hoagy is Stoney on on Flintstones or that was first .
It was a lovely thing to do for your mum.. I'm sure somewhere deep inside there's a part of her that remembered! My prayers for you both. To lose your mum....well I can tell you nothing will ever hurt as much.
This was my Dad's favorite song.He was a John Wayne type Bad-assed WWll Marine.He told me that this song was playing the night he met my Mother.Thank you Dad for saving the world...
And to think that this is a 1927 song! Yet it STILL is a treat to hear. Music, good music, NEVER gets old. It helps lift the soul to all that is good, noble, and pure.
@@STho205 Hadn't heard of her before - but followed your lead and checked her out ! Yes, she carries the torch nicely ! From what I've seen so far, she and her musicians and production team certainly do embody the traditions adding their own playful spices. Her vids are refreshingly creative and fun to watch, too... in other words: entertaining ;))
Until The Beatles' "Yesterday", this was the most recorded song in the world. I have loved it all my life and at the age of 88. I still do. England, December, 2024.
Sometimes I wonder Why I spend the lonely nights Dreaming of a song The melody Haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration Oh, but that was long ago Now my consolation is in the stardust of a song Beside a garden wall, when stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale Tells his fairytale Of paradise, where roses grew Though I dream in vain In my heart, it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain Though I dream in vain In my heart, it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain
Stardust is probably the best and most intelligent song ever written all the would be singer's of the era had a go at rendering their version most good but only one did it justice Nat King Cole!!!
Thanks to. The fifth season of the Queen I have rediscovered this gem of a song Timeless classics like this never die and I’m grateful many generations can enjoy this too.
I so remember attending a dance after a rodeo in Pecos Texas in 1970. The band had a trumpet player. A couple, who were my parents age requested this song. I can still see the couples who went through the Great Depression and World War 2 dancing to this song. They were the only ones dancing, maybe less than 15 couples. My parents danced too. I was 18 years old at that time and I remember tearing up. Those people were so into each other and were transported to another time when they were young and in love. My parents, as I am sure all the other couples there that night, are gone now. However, I'll just bet they are still dancing together.💋
europe voted stardust as the top song of the last millenium. it changed music forever due to syncopation. the lyricist, m. parish was from lake charles, louisiana. deeply sophisticated but highly romantic. wonderful
I loved Hoagy Carmichael from watching old movies when I was a child. I was still young when I went to a celebrity golf tournament with my dad and my brother. That’s when I met my “friend” from the movies, Mr. Carmichael. He was so sweet to me. I won’t forget him or his music.
I had to hear this song as just an hour or so ago I walked through the Indiana University campus on a hot summer night, I believe part of the way along the same path Hoagy Carmichael took when this melody came into his head, and then I saw the statue of him at the piano there next to the path at 7th Street. I paused a moment and it is so real, I felt his presence. The sculpture is black and shiny and in the dark night, it almost seemed alive. He has his hands on the piano, with the hat on his head. Sometimes I think about him, about his little sister dying because the family couldn't get her proper care, and how the only fun he had in his life was playing duets on the piano with his mom. I love this man, and feel connected being here where he grew up in Bloomington, Indiana.
It's amazing to consider that he composed this song while he was a young college student, yet he still describes so well the feelings of an older person looking back on a romance of the distant past.
I agree the song is perfection, and his melody is a great achievement. But Hoagy didn't write the words. He wrote the music. Mitchell Parish wrote the beautiful words.
Finally finding Hoagy Carmichael singing, playing piano, whistling, so damn beautiful I am feeling on top of the world. ....always told my friends, decades, I missed my birthdate, I always felt I would have been where I belonged, @ my early 20's, having a great marriage /relationship with a hit man or maybe not so deep, but it never would have made me any less happy, I would have been on top of the world and with the BEST music artists from 1989-1959, anyway.....oh, I do believe every word....thx so much for Hoagy, and every single musician who ran their course with him..
Chills abound! Thanks for posting this gem. I'm 69 years old and still I think this was the greatest song ever written ❤❤😊😊😊. Thank you Mr. Carmichael.❤
STARDUST (aka STAR DUST) and my father's famous history. It has been just 18 years since my father, Charles "Bud" Dant, left our world, and recently I was in Manhattan to hear Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks with Peter Mintun, got me thinking about Dad's fascinating early history with the famous song Stardust--certainly, one of the most beautiful and most popular songs (over 1500 recordings) ever written. Hoagy Carmichael wrote the melody in 1929, later having recorded it at the Gennett Recording Studios in Richmond, Indiana. Later lyrics were added by Mitchell Parish. But, as I have heard my own father tell this story many times and which has been recounted in Richard Sudhalter's Stardust Melody ...had it not been for my father's association with Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust may have had a different journey. So indulge me: Just before his college days, Dad went down from his hometown in Indianapolis to Bloomington to play for sorority dances at Indiana University. This was around 1925 and Hoagy was on campus at that time, playing a dance at the Kappa Sig house, his fraternity. He found out about Dad playing on campus and sent out the word for his group to come over after his dance was finished. My father picks up the story: "In front of the house, he had this big open truck, with heavy sides and on it, was the Book Nook's [the local restaurant/bar] piano... ." Hoagy says: "Get on, Bud, we're goin' for a serenade and we're gonna jam." They got rolling with Hoagy at the piano, my father on cornet. He told us about one tune he wrote in Havana, Cuba and they played a bit of that...and then he said: "Bud, here's another good tune we can jam with" "What's the title?" my father asked. "It doesn't have a title. It's just a jam tune," Hoagy said. He starts playing a tune with a medium-fast tempo. My father says "At least it starts on a four (sub-dominant) chord and that makes it a little different." They jammed the tune for 15 minutes as they rolled the truck to one sorority house after another--and they got pretty good with it. Dad continues: "I didn't think too much of it--and I don't think we were always with Hoagy. When we were playing, we couldn't hear him too much," Dad said. The night ended and everyone scattered for home, and nothing much was made or said about that night. The number they were jamming that night? A melody that shortly thereafter would become STARDUST! About three or four years later, my father was urged by Hoagy to come to Bloomington and enroll in Indiana University, and after much argument with my grand parents, Dad decided to head off to school and ended up pledging Hoagy's fraternity, Kappa Sigma even before he became a student! Hoagy Carmichael was a rare musical genus at the piano, inventing songs, playing wildly in his head but as my father said "he couldn't read or write music." As my father recounted: "He had to have me no matter what, because I was the only guy he knew that could write music....and in those days, he would take me down to the Book Nook and buy me lunch." And more often than not, he'd start talking about that song they played on the back of that flat-bed truck some years earlier. "He'd even written out a lyric of sorts," my father said. Couldn't Dant write an arrangement? Dad continued: "I said, Hoagy, I haven't played that tune since that night we first played it. I'd never played the melody before. I don't know the melody or anything. Play it for me. You know what he did? He planked out the chorus of the song, his jazz chorus, his paraphrase on the melody, but not the melody itself," my father said. Finally, my father, if only to lay the matter to rest-agreed to write an arrangement. And that arrangement was the very first time STARDUST had been written onto sheet music. Below is a photograph of Hoagy Carmichael at that very piano in the Book Nook...it was taken on a different day than that fateful day but the date was close to the 1929 date when this happened. The early early history of STARDUST is ripe with stories from many, but this, I believe, is an accurate accounting from my father, whose memory of events was accurate, as I later learned from others who told me stories I had heard.
Thank you for a lovely story. I read once that Hoagy Carmichael said that he always had hundreds of tunes running through his head.. Sadly, I had never heard of him until about 3 years ago, when I was at my mothers, and she was watching an old TV western called “Laramie”. (I had never heard of that, either). But she told me “See that man? He’s Hoagy Carmichael, and he wrote ‘Stardust’.. I had never heard of ‘Stardust’, either, and looked it up. Once I heard it, I recognized the tune from “Sleepless in Seattle”.. Anyway, I’m glad I discovered it, even 90+ years later. It’s beautiful.
@Christopher Dant ~ ~ That is one of the most interesting stories I have ever heard! Thank you for telling it, thank your Father for living it. I was 7 yrs in our HiSchool Band - (4 of us 6th graders were put in to fill out the ranks) When I was a Jr, at one of our football games, during 1/2 time we marched, played a couple songs and started breaking ranks and formed a star. The lights went out, people gasped, we turned on little red lights that were on our hats. We had practiced many weeks to make the straight lines to make that star.! When we finished the people stood giving us a standing ovation! In the Spring of that year we took that to State Contest in Miami, blew everyone away ( we were just a small band from a small town!) BUT we made Superior !! Its not as good as your story but…….
Heard on my parents radio many times in the early 1940s. Waycross,Ga. I was only 5 or 6 but never forgot. Have no access to see The Crown unfortunately. I was just looking up this song to see if it was appropriate for my one day soon funeral. Brings back such memories of a happy childhood. I was one if the lucky ones. And as an adult I can understand so much more what a treasure was Mr Carmichael.
Hoagy's laid back style. Such an incredible talent. He created some timeless music in his lifetime. As long as there is music there will be Hoagy Carmichael.
I’ve heard the name Hoagy Carmichael mentioned while reading an Ian Fleming novel, and again in Dasheill Hammets The Maltese Falcon. Down the rabbit hole I went and ended up here. Not a single regret.
I’m sad. This song came out the year my grandmother was born, I just heard news she might not make it through the night. It’s crazy. Just to see the difference. My grandmother came into this world 94 years ago and this was what it was like.
Hoagy Carmichael had a profound effect on me. When I was a little kid, my mom was into country music, my dad had all of these show tunes. I found Stardust one night on a record and was caught up by it. Later on, I saw To Have and Have Not on tv one night, and I loved it. I had no idea that the guy playing the piano was the same guy that wrote that beautiful song. Even later, I found out that my mother had been an extra in the movie Canyon Passage, which featured another of Hoagy's great songs, Buttermilk Sky. He will always have a special place in my heart. :) Stardust will always be the song I first fell in love with.
The thing that strikes me about Stardust is that of all the many versions I have heard, none are bad. It is such a beautiful, incredibly well written song.
"Paradise where roses grew" -- where you have been since Nov. 2010 -- My Eternal Love -- My Heavenly-Resplendent Wife -- My Barbra Rose. I hope you can hear this from your home in Heaven. Come back for me very very soon. I miss you beyond words. I love you beond Time.
One of the greatest songs ever. A young Hoagy Carmichael was the 'model' for Ian Fleming's James Bond (looks wise). Hoagy had a unique singing style and was very much under rated. A great talent.
I was once told i was related to him through my Grandmas side of the family.I heard they used to play this song at the drive end theaters before the movies would play.
Not quite a song about itself, but a meta-song (i.e., a song about an unspecified song, or at least melody) nevertheless. The only song I can think of that's about itself is "Tennessee Waltz".
+daisy evans You are so right Ms. Evans, in fact this is a very complicated piece. Not "Begin the Beguine" complicated, but still pretty damn complicated.
Well said. He captured hearts. Not just by his voice - but his timing and reason behind it. He was okay with helping us unfold memories - as we heard his voice, and tunes ring out. Unforgettable dreams of doom and wonder!
One of those classics that will endure for eons. People will be listening to these songs a thousand years from now. No matter what society will be like, music will always be music.
I just met an older woman tonight in Brunswick Maine that dated this guy. She was a but younger than him when they dated. Buy she just shared his music with me. What a treat.
To the left is a picture of my mom and my grandmother; two of the most extraordinary women I ever knew, and I love and miss them both. "Stardust" was Mom's favorite song, and I loved it even as a little girl. Now I often sing it to my daughters at bedtime. I have a blog, Sadie's Gathering, in honor of my grandmother; hope to have music on it at some point and this song will be among the first. Thank you Mr. Carmichael; and thank you Mr. MacRealt
It is a treat to hear the writer's interpretation of his creation. It swings as smooth as a pendulum, and the melody is a counterpoint to the lyrics/ Vintage brandy.
Thankfully, Mitchell Parish came along and wrote some of the most beautiful lyrics in the English language to complement Hoagy Carmichael’s wonderful composition.
Years ago when I first discovered Hoagy on some of my grandfather's 78's and asked him about Hoagy he said: "When you find Hoagy and his songs it's as if you've uncovered one of music's greatest treasures. You don't want to share him with anyone else, just keep him and his glorious melodies a precious secret". Thats good advice. But today when Cole Porter, Gershwin and Irving Berlin seem to have taken root in people's memories I can hear 'I get along without you very well", or 'Georgia on my mind' or a dozen others and relish the true genius of great songwriter.
To all Hoagy lovers. His 2 books Sometimes I Wonder and The Stardust Road are a must. They not only tell about his life but paint a superb picture of how life was like at that time.
Linda canción y qué bella era Lauren Baccal. La cara de esa mujer era algo precioso. Me ha gustado esta canción desde la primera vez que la esuché tan bien interpretada por el mismo genio que la compuso. Música que de veras vale la pena escuchar tan sentimental y profunda.
I am in love with love songs. This piece of music inspired me and some friends to put on tuxes and sing them to people who were in love, or at least working on it. As a result I spent several years performing love music for an appreciative audience, and of all the hundreds of wonderful love songs we played, “Stardust” was the most requested and beloved song we ever did. Absolutely the best love song of all time. The other guys are gone now, and I treasure the memory of those great musicians and the people who came to hear us play the music they loved. Andy, of Andy Boker & the Polyphonics
When this song originally released as an instrumental my parents fell in love with it and when it released with lyrics *a few months later*, their love for it simply doubled. Going forward, my Dad bought every 78 and 33 1/3 done by any and all musicians/songsters so his collection was massive by the time he passed away in 1977. My nephew, who has a love of early-mid-century music, inherited the collection, having been passed down to his Mom, and it now is in a nice cabinet in Colorado. This version was probably their all-time favorite of all the recordings they had. Absolutely stellar!
Hoagy Carmichael tenía un toque suave tanto para cantar como para tocar y por eso sus canciones y composiciones le llegan a uno. Linda música que he escuchado en tantas otras versiones. Pero me encanta ésta.
I'd never heard this version before I heard it on The Crown. I'd always thought of Nat Cole's classic recording as being the definitive version, but this is just jaw-dropping. I'm so glad I found it.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, LEE ! The very best song ever put down on paper, both lyrics and the simplistic piano, whistling. I have to come and listen each and every day now. Colin James on CBC Radio, has explained why this piece is just that. A TRUE MASTERPIECE. One of only 50 musical pieces in the US Library of Congress. I just can; get enough of it. Bring on the roaring 20's one more time. 2020 Perfect Vision. :)
bruce jenkins wrote about that in his book 'goodbye', about his father, gordon. NKC didn't want to record it but agreed to listen to the arrangement between sets in a club across the street from the studio. by the time he went backstage, he had recorded one of the most played versions, maybe THE most played version. mitchell parish wrote the poetry.
My sister had all of Mom's favorites on CD and played them for her when she was confined with the Alzheimer's No way to know if she recognized them but it seemed to calm her. This song was performed by many greats. Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, the list goes on...
I've just found out this is the tune on my jewellery box my Nanna gave me when she died in 1983 when I was 13. It won't play anymore but the tune is stuck in my head from childhood. So poignant.
Joanne, there are folks out there that can repair your jewellery box. Take the time and the $$ to find someone to fix it, you won't regret it. My daughter had a stuffed bear that was also a music box. It accidentally went through the washing machine.. It went silent. 30+ years later I found the bear and put a new music box in it and gave it to her for Christmas. She didn't understand until I told her to wind it. You would have though I'd given her a bar of gold. Leaky eyes ensued along with stories of her falling to sleep with it playing. The way sound can evoke memories cannot be understated. Get it fixed!
Look at that picture of Hoagy at the piano, and sometimes with the toothpick or wooden match in his mouth -- tell me somewhere in his life singer-songwriter Tom Waits didn't see this picture: saying to himself -- if I combine a Louis Armstrong voice, a Beat poet's mentality with this look -- I'll have a career. I think he succeeded very well, but the original will always be Hoagy. Artists still sing his songs to this very day. Including George Harrison.
All artists build on prior art, especially today. Take Joe Cocker and Ray Charles. Like Hoagy, Tom Waits is an American Icon. It's been many years since I heard this version. What jumps out at me is how Hoagy completely revises the songbook version of the melody, something even most 'jazz' singers cannot do. 5 Stars for Hoagy.
Proof that great music is timeless. Willie Nelson did an outstanding job on this song on his album of American Songbook classics that he called Stardust. 70 years after it was written and it was still being covered by leading artists. Hats off to Hoagie for writing such a beautiful tune.
Una vez subí a ver a mi padre, quien trabajaba en su taller y el silbaba esta melodía, ya la había olvidado, hasta hoy que ví la 5ta temporada de Crown y fue un placer volver a recordar
One of those songs that are so good one does not become bored of hearing it. The whistling adds a somewhat personal taste to it and it is very deep and sung with feeling.
I was born in Brazil, land of great composers, but I am very fond about american music. Since I was a child I used to hear the best of american music in the radios of Rio de Janeiro.
Thank you for posting this.I for got what an influence Hoagy had , and still does with True Jazz aficionados and lover of all things good and pure in its musical form! What a Perfect song!!Hoagy was among the greatest, (if not the top 3,or even #1)!!Excellent!!
Hoagy was great, glad you played it for your mom. My mother passed 6 years ago at 101 and loved Hoagy what a great song guy. Remember the best years of our life's movie. That I think is where the video came from. Best to you.
Hoagie Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. From wiki 😀
![Frank Sinatra - "Stardust" Lucky Strike Promo (1943) [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/F13JswrYwMM/mqdefault.jpg)
My mom once told me this was her favorite song, but couldn't remember who sang it. When watching the 5th season, Episode 4, of The Crown, they played it! However, Mom's now 100 years old and wouldn't recognize it if I played it. Doctors are giving her about a month left to live, and I wish she could hear it and remember it one last time. I'm going to play it for her anyway.
Aww I hope she remembers
@@HappyZazzling Thx! Sadly, she didn’t remember it (I didn’t think she would).
@@brentscarborough3700 I always mix this up I've been through this before I get the name of this associated with an instrumental … it just goes Daã Daã Daà Daå DuDuDu Dah Dah Dah Dah DDDaa$ ☎️📞🔦 it must be a Benny Goodman
@@HappyZazzling yeah I think it will stick , it was a magic click to from Hoagey on Wikipedia to Tin Pan Alley being sort of a Tower of Babel of sheet music sort of fell down and some of those artists remained since the late 19th century they have preserved it these 5 brill building took over etc . Then Hoagy is Stoney on on Flintstones or that was first .
It was a lovely thing to do for your mum..
I'm sure somewhere deep inside there's a part of her that remembered!
My prayers for you both.
To lose your mum....well I can tell you nothing will ever hurt as much.
This was my Dad's favorite song.He was a John Wayne type Bad-assed WWll Marine.He told me that this song was playing the night he met my Mother.Thank you Dad for saving the world...
Well thank you to your Dad! Love from England xx
Love Form Germany :D
We need more men like your dad today. ❤️👌🏼🇺🇸
Our dads did it for us! Bless ‘em all! 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Do you mean that your father was a Sea Bee in WWII? They became the Marines. My father was a Sea Bee in Alaska.
This was my father’s favorite song. He passed away in 2004. A Marine Corps veteran of WWII. He loved America.
May he rest in peace. I thank him greatly for his service. God bless you and your family! Take care.
And America loved him. RIP Soldier. 🙏
Sorry hear that may he rest in peace he with angels now
My pops to he was 1930
Am sorry pops R.i.p we will see them again the good people go with the lord
And to think that this is a 1927 song!
Yet it STILL is a treat to hear.
Music, good music, NEVER gets old.
It helps lift the soul to all that is good, noble, and pure.
I never stop listening to these older songs. I love so many of them ❤️
Find Janet Klein and you'll see 20s and early 30s music can be very easy to listen to when mastered with modern equipment.
@@STho205 Hadn't heard of her before - but followed your lead and checked her out ! Yes, she carries the torch nicely ! From what I've seen so far, she and her musicians and production team certainly do embody the traditions adding their own playful spices. Her vids are refreshingly creative and fun to watch, too... in other words: entertaining ;))
Until The Beatles' "Yesterday", this was the most recorded song in the world. I have loved it all my life and at the age of 88. I still do. England, December, 2024.
Sometimes I wonder
Why I spend the lonely nights
Dreaming of a song
The melody
Haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
Oh, but that was long ago
Now my consolation is in the stardust of a song
Beside a garden wall, when stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale
Tells his fairytale
Of paradise, where roses grew
Though I dream in vain
In my heart, it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain
Though I dream in vain
In my heart, it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain
best lyrics EVER
I thought Hoagy wrote that
Stardust is probably the best and most intelligent song ever written all the would be singer's of the era had a go at rendering their version most good but only one did it justice Nat King Cole!!!
Your spot on Nat king Cole
@@jamesodonnell3905 From Wikipedia: ""Stardust" is a popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added by Mitchell Parish in 1929."
Thanks to. The fifth season of the Queen I have rediscovered this gem of a song Timeless classics like this never die and I’m grateful many generations can enjoy this too.
same here, this music just speaks to my soul
what a great soundtrack for the end of margaret and peter's storyline :(
@@Augiee31892 so tragic. Hard to believe this actually happened. Well loosely bas d on the truth.
Indeed, though I prefer the version sang by Nat King C?ole...the song tells perfectly the situation of Margareth back then, very, very sad...
The love Story of princess margaret is so sad 💔💔💔
It was my Dad's favorite song also. He passed away in 2002. One of my fondest memories are of him playing this on the piano.
My dad's as well. I've always wondered if he would have liked Willie's version. 😊
I so remember attending a dance after a rodeo in Pecos Texas in 1970. The band had a trumpet player. A couple, who were my parents age requested this song. I can still see the couples who went through the Great Depression and World War 2 dancing to this song. They were the only ones dancing, maybe less than 15 couples. My parents danced too. I was 18 years old at that time and I remember tearing up. Those people were so into each other and were transported to another time when they were young and in love. My parents, as I am sure all the other couples there that night, are gone now. However, I'll just bet they are still dancing together.💋
That's so beautiful
So nice. My parents were from that era also.
So so sweet!
Truly inspired, almost 100 years ago. This song will never die, my respect Hoagy Carmichael. I say your name in 2021.
🖤🎶
And I will say it in 2022!
And I'll whistle the refrain, , 😗🎶🎼🎵
And I will say it in 2023. ❤️ 💙 💜
Could be the best song of the 20th C. Now, almost 100 yrs later, it still speaks to us.
europe voted stardust as the top song of the last millenium. it changed music forever due to syncopation. the lyricist, m. parish was from lake charles, louisiana. deeply sophisticated but highly romantic. wonderful
Stardust is the most recorded song, ever. It truly is timeless.
CORRECT!! My favorite song of all time. It was Bette Davis’ favorite song, too. And I’m a musicologist. An expert on 60 years of music!!
Jump, Van Halen.
Best Song of the Twentieth Century.
Even though I wasn't born when this type of music was popular, I still love it. This was the era of songs that really meant something.
I loved Hoagy Carmichael from watching old movies when I was a child. I was still young when I went to a celebrity golf tournament with my dad and my brother. That’s when I met my “friend” from the movies, Mr. Carmichael. He was so sweet to me. I won’t forget him or his music.
I had to hear this song as just an hour or so ago I walked through the Indiana University campus on a hot summer night, I believe part of the way along the same path Hoagy Carmichael took when this melody came into his head, and then I saw the statue of him at the piano there next to the path at 7th Street. I paused a moment and it is so real, I felt his presence. The sculpture is black and shiny and in the dark night, it almost seemed alive. He has his hands on the piano, with the hat on his head. Sometimes I think about him, about his little sister dying because the family couldn't get her proper care, and how the only fun he had in his life was playing duets on the piano with his mom. I love this man, and feel connected being here where he grew up in Bloomington, Indiana.
we should all be grateful he left law school...
Visit the Hoagy Carmichael Room at IU if you haven’t already. They have the original manuscript of Stardust, his piano, his desk, his Oscar, and more.
It's amazing to consider that he composed this song while he was a young college student, yet he still describes so well the feelings of an older person looking back on a romance of the distant past.
Yes
I agree the song is perfection, and his melody is a great achievement. But Hoagy didn't write the words. He wrote the music. Mitchell Parish wrote the beautiful words.
Very true. But I never thought the lyrics were all that good. Kind of an afterthought to fit the melody, IMHO@@RobertSchechter
Young people think that last week's relationship was a long time ago.
Gracias
Back when there were STANDARDS of EXCELLENCE. REAL music performed by truly outstanding artists.
So very true
"The Crown" brought me here 🥰💜💚
Beautiful song
The Crown brought me here.. beautiful old classic!
Finally finding Hoagy Carmichael singing, playing piano, whistling, so damn beautiful I am feeling on top of the world. ....always told my friends, decades, I missed my birthdate, I always felt I would have been where I belonged, @ my early 20's, having a great marriage /relationship with a hit man or maybe not so deep, but it never would have made me any less happy, I would have been on top of the world and with the BEST music artists from 1989-1959, anyway.....oh, I do believe every word....thx so much for Hoagy, and every single musician who ran their course with him..
that was 1899-........thx
Chills abound! Thanks for posting this gem. I'm 69 years old and still I think this was the greatest song ever written ❤❤😊😊😊. Thank you Mr. Carmichael.❤
Most definitely.
I'm 82 and I think so too.
Let’s have more Hoagy on YT. His voice, his songs, pure magic.
I'm here because this was my beloved father's most favorite song and arrangement. Miss you Daddy - 27 Oct 1989
Stardust , Fantastic melody and lyric ,Unforgettable. Mr. Hoagy Carmichael, Thank you,Merci , Danke , gracias, Obrigado.
From Brazil.
It was once said that at any given time, someone, somewhere in the world was playing Stardust. It was the world's most popular song. Thanks, Hoagy!
The Crown brought me here. However I remember my grandfather talking about Hoagy, but I was to young then to appreciate the song and the voice x
When songs had meaning and love behind them. The voices of the past puts a smile on my face.
Heard this on The Crown. I like it.
STARDUST (aka STAR DUST) and my father's famous history.
It has been just 18 years since my father, Charles "Bud" Dant, left our world, and recently I was in Manhattan to hear Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks with Peter Mintun, got me thinking about Dad's fascinating early history with the famous song Stardust--certainly, one of the most beautiful and most popular songs (over 1500 recordings) ever written. Hoagy Carmichael wrote the melody in 1929, later having recorded it at the Gennett Recording Studios in Richmond, Indiana. Later lyrics were added by Mitchell Parish.
But, as I have heard my own father tell this story many times and which has been recounted in Richard Sudhalter's Stardust Melody ...had it not been for my father's association with Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust may have had a different journey.
So indulge me:
Just before his college days, Dad went down from his hometown in Indianapolis to Bloomington to play for sorority dances at Indiana University. This was around 1925 and Hoagy was on campus at that time, playing a dance at the Kappa Sig house, his fraternity. He found out about Dad playing on campus and sent out the word for his group to come over after his dance was finished. My father picks up the story:
"In front of the house, he had this big open truck, with heavy sides and on it, was the Book Nook's [the local restaurant/bar] piano... ."
Hoagy says: "Get on, Bud, we're goin' for a serenade and we're gonna jam."
They got rolling with Hoagy at the piano, my father on cornet. He told us about one tune he wrote in Havana, Cuba and they played a bit of that...and then he said:
"Bud, here's another good tune we can jam with"
"What's the title?" my father asked.
"It doesn't have a title. It's just a jam tune," Hoagy said.
He starts playing a tune with a medium-fast tempo.
My father says "At least it starts on a four (sub-dominant) chord and that makes it a little different."
They jammed the tune for 15 minutes as they rolled the truck to one sorority house after another--and they got pretty good with it.
Dad continues: "I didn't think too much of it--and I don't think we were always with Hoagy. When we were playing, we couldn't hear him too much," Dad said.
The night ended and everyone scattered for home, and nothing much was made or said about that night.
The number they were jamming that night? A melody that shortly thereafter would become STARDUST!
About three or four years later, my father was urged by Hoagy to come to Bloomington and enroll in Indiana University, and after much argument with my grand parents, Dad decided to head off to school and ended up pledging Hoagy's fraternity, Kappa Sigma even before he became a student!
Hoagy Carmichael was a rare musical genus at the piano, inventing songs, playing wildly in his head but as my father said "he couldn't read or write music."
As my father recounted: "He had to have me no matter what, because I was the only guy he knew that could write music....and in those days, he would take me down to the Book Nook and buy me lunch."
And more often than not, he'd start talking about that song they played on the back of that flat-bed truck some years earlier.
"He'd even written out a lyric of sorts," my father said. Couldn't Dant write an arrangement?
Dad continued: "I said, Hoagy, I haven't played that tune since that night we first played it. I'd never played the melody before. I don't know the melody or anything. Play it for me. You know what he did? He planked out the chorus of the song, his jazz chorus, his paraphrase on the melody, but not the melody itself," my father said.
Finally, my father, if only to lay the matter to rest-agreed to write an arrangement. And that arrangement was the very first time STARDUST had been written onto sheet music.
Below is a photograph of Hoagy Carmichael at that very piano in the Book Nook...it was taken on a different day than that fateful day but the date was close to the 1929 date when this happened.
The early early history of STARDUST is ripe with stories from many, but this, I believe, is an accurate accounting from my father, whose memory of events was accurate, as I later learned from others who told me stories I had heard.
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Thank you so much for sharing with us a bit of fundamental history of this charming tune. Wonderful!
Thank you for a lovely story. I read once that Hoagy Carmichael said that he always had hundreds of tunes running through his head.. Sadly, I had never heard of him until about 3 years ago, when I was at my mothers, and she was watching an old TV western called “Laramie”. (I had never heard of that, either). But she told me “See that man? He’s Hoagy Carmichael, and he wrote ‘Stardust’.. I had never heard of ‘Stardust’, either, and looked it up. Once I heard it, I recognized the tune from “Sleepless in Seattle”.. Anyway, I’m glad I discovered it, even 90+ years later. It’s beautiful.
Simply wonderful,
@Christopher Dant ~ ~ That is one of the most interesting stories I have ever heard! Thank you for telling it, thank your Father for living it. I was 7 yrs in our HiSchool Band - (4 of us 6th graders were put in to fill out the ranks) When I was a Jr, at one of our football games, during 1/2 time we marched, played a couple songs and started breaking ranks and formed a star. The lights went out, people gasped, we turned on little red lights that were on our hats. We had practiced many weeks to make the straight lines to make that star.! When we finished the people stood giving us a standing ovation! In the Spring of that year we took that to State Contest in Miami, blew everyone away ( we were just a small band from a small town!) BUT we made Superior !! Its not as good as your story but…….
The whistling adds a personal touch to the song which is very well played and sung. Very nice to hear, sung and played by the master himself.
Heard on my parents radio many times in the early 1940s. Waycross,Ga. I was only 5 or 6 but never forgot. Have no access to see The Crown unfortunately. I was just looking up this song to see if it was appropriate for my one day soon funeral. Brings back such memories of a happy childhood. I was one if the lucky ones. And as an adult I can understand so much more what a treasure was Mr Carmichael.
Hoagy's laid back style. Such an incredible talent. He created some timeless music in his lifetime. As long as there is music there will be Hoagy Carmichael.
I’ve heard the name Hoagy Carmichael mentioned while reading an Ian Fleming novel, and again in Dasheill Hammets The Maltese Falcon. Down the rabbit hole I went and ended up here. Not a single regret.
Margo and Peter, may your love live on. ♥️
I’m sad. This song came out the year my grandmother was born, I just heard news she might not make it through the night. It’s crazy. Just to see the difference. My grandmother came into this world 94 years ago and this was what it was like.
She lives on. We live on in the memories of those we touched through love.
xx
Yah
This song is a 1979 song
@@rosesran1139no! The song is create in 1927. Recorder by Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day e Nate cole.
the crown brought me here and I'm so glad it did ♥💯
Hoagy Carmichael had a profound effect on me. When I was a little kid, my mom was into country music, my dad had all of these show tunes. I found Stardust one night on a record and was caught up by it. Later on, I saw To Have and Have Not on tv one night, and I loved it. I had no idea that the guy playing the piano was the same guy that wrote that beautiful song. Even later, I found out that my mother had been an extra in the movie Canyon Passage, which featured another of Hoagy's great songs, Buttermilk Sky. He will always have a special place in my heart. :) Stardust will always be the song I first fell in love with.
Great memories. He certainly did write the music but not the beautiful lyrics.
Buttermilk Sky is a kick ass tune.
@@rustybeltway2373 Amen
The thing that strikes me about Stardust is that of all the many versions I have heard, none are bad. It is such a beautiful, incredibly well written song.
I was born in 1965 and my parents were born in the early 20s and I grew up listening to big band and Crooners. It was a good life.
"Paradise where roses grew" -- where you have been since Nov. 2010 -- My Eternal Love -- My Heavenly-Resplendent Wife -- My Barbra Rose. I hope you can hear this from your home in Heaven. Come back for me very very soon. I miss you beyond words. I love you beond Time.
The way Hoagy sings it feels so... personal. All the little melodious mannerisms that make whatever he sings uniquely his own. Quite charming!
One of the greatest songs ever. A young Hoagy Carmichael was the 'model' for Ian Fleming's James Bond (looks wise). Hoagy had a unique singing style and was very much under rated. A great talent.
I was once told i was related to him through my Grandmas side of the family.I heard they used to play this song at the drive end theaters before the movies would play.
Deceptively sophisticated. Very complex in its structure. A meta-melody. A song about itself. Beautiful and sad.
Not quite a song about itself, but a meta-song (i.e., a song about an unspecified song, or at least melody) nevertheless. The only song I can think of that's about itself is "Tennessee Waltz".
Harvey Wachtel "A stardust of a song", "my stardust melody" is what he sings, within a song named "Stardust".
+daisy evans You are so right Ms. Evans, in fact this is a very complicated piece. Not "Begin the Beguine" complicated, but still pretty damn complicated.
Well said. He captured hearts. Not just by his voice - but his timing and reason behind it. He was okay with helping us unfold memories - as we heard his voice, and tunes ring out. Unforgettable dreams of doom and wonder!
It’s just a tribute
One of those classics that will endure for eons. People will be listening to these songs a thousand years from now. No matter what society will be like, music will always be music.
Beautiful song expecially from a longest love M and P.
Stardust Movie brought me here Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜
Stardust was my Mom and dad's "Song". They married in 1942 after a 9 year courtship!
I just met an older woman tonight in Brunswick Maine that dated this guy. She was a but younger than him when they dated. Buy she just shared his music with me. What a treat.
To the left is a picture of my mom and my grandmother; two of the most extraordinary women I ever knew, and I love and miss them both. "Stardust" was Mom's favorite song, and I loved it even as a little girl. Now I often sing it to my daughters at bedtime. I have a blog, Sadie's Gathering, in honor of my grandmother; hope to have music on it at some point and this song will be among the first. Thank you Mr. Carmichael; and thank you Mr. MacRealt
I TRULY MISS THIS ERA OF MUSIC !
another love. . .love song. Wish we had composers/singers like him today. romantic and not cheesy/dirty.
It is a treat to hear the writer's interpretation of his creation. It swings as smooth as a pendulum, and the melody is a counterpoint to the lyrics/ Vintage brandy.
Try Billy Wards version. Was in Goodfellas as well.
Thankfully, Mitchell Parish came along and wrote some of the most beautiful lyrics in the English language to complement Hoagy Carmichael’s wonderful composition.
Years ago when I first discovered Hoagy on some of my grandfather's 78's and asked him about Hoagy he said: "When you find Hoagy and his songs it's as if you've uncovered one of music's greatest treasures. You don't want to share him with anyone else, just keep him and his glorious melodies a precious secret". Thats good advice. But today when Cole Porter, Gershwin and Irving Berlin seem to have taken root in people's memories I can hear 'I get along without you very well", or 'Georgia on my mind' or a dozen others and relish the true genius of great songwriter.
A marvellous singer ifound him at 30 years old 60 now still listening
"now my consolation is in the stardust of a song" - one of the best songs ever written
To all Hoagy lovers. His 2 books Sometimes I Wonder and The Stardust Road are a must. They not only tell about his life but paint a superb picture of how life was like at that time.
Linda canción y qué bella era Lauren Baccal. La cara de esa mujer era algo precioso. Me ha gustado esta canción desde la primera vez que la esuché tan bien interpretada por el mismo genio que la compuso. Música que de veras vale la pena escuchar tan sentimental y profunda.
The elegance of simplicity and lyrics beyond compare.
Quality music, like this, will always be great.
I am in love with love songs. This piece of music inspired me and some friends to put on tuxes and sing them to people who were in love, or at least working on it. As a result I spent several years performing love music for an appreciative audience, and of all the hundreds of wonderful love songs we played, “Stardust” was the most requested and beloved song we ever did. Absolutely the best love song of all time. The other guys are gone now, and I treasure the memory of those great musicians and the people who came to hear us play the music they loved.
Andy, of Andy Boker & the Polyphonics
Princess Margaret got me here😁
Me too 😊
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I'm a word connoisseur, Hoagy's words paint a pi ture in our minds, how wonderful!
When this song originally released as an instrumental my parents fell in love with it and when it released with lyrics *a few months later*, their love for it simply doubled. Going forward, my Dad bought every 78 and 33 1/3 done by any and all musicians/songsters so his collection was massive by the time he passed away in 1977. My nephew, who has a love of early-mid-century music, inherited the collection, having been passed down to his Mom, and it now is in a nice cabinet in Colorado. This version was probably their all-time favorite of all the recordings they had. Absolutely stellar!
Hoagy Carmichael tenía un toque suave tanto para cantar como para tocar y por eso sus canciones y composiciones le llegan a uno. Linda música que he escuchado en tantas otras versiones. Pero me encanta ésta.
Yes...👏👌...Greetings from Poland...💫
@@katarzynaschulz953 Well, we agree on this, greetings to You too. Regards.
the crown brought me this beauty ❤️❤️❤️
I'd never heard this version before I heard it on The Crown. I'd always thought of Nat Cole's classic recording as being the definitive version, but this is just jaw-dropping. I'm so glad I found it.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, LEE ! The very best song ever put down on paper, both lyrics and the simplistic piano, whistling. I have to come and listen each and every day now. Colin James on CBC Radio, has explained why this piece is just that. A TRUE MASTERPIECE. One of only 50 musical pieces in the US Library of Congress. I just can; get enough of it. Bring on the roaring 20's one more time. 2020 Perfect Vision. :)
+M P.L You are very welcome, delighted!
I agree This is the most beautiful song ever written
certainly iconic.. and this is such a wonderful version... I whistle it all the time.. never knowing he did too !
Delighted!
larry johnson Agreed!
Nat King Cole 1950s version is stunning. One of my favorite recordings of this masterpiece.
bruce jenkins wrote about that in his book 'goodbye', about his father, gordon. NKC didn't want to record it but agreed to listen to the arrangement between sets in a club across the street from the studio. by the time he went backstage, he had recorded one of the most played versions, maybe THE most played version. mitchell parish wrote the poetry.
@@davidweinstock4977 Great story, David. Thanks!
-- Hal
Gordon Jenkins, unknown musical hero to romantics everywhere. Run it on your car stereo. If there aren't tears in your eyes, seek professional help.
My sister had all of Mom's favorites on CD and played them for her when she was confined with the Alzheimer's No way to know if she recognized them but it seemed to calm her. This song was performed by many greats. Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, the list goes on...
The great Hoagy, the author of this most beautiful & beloved melody.
I've just found out this is the tune on my jewellery box my Nanna gave me when she died in 1983 when I was 13. It won't play anymore but the tune is stuck in my head from childhood. So poignant.
Joanne, there are folks out there that can repair your jewellery box. Take the time and the $$ to find someone to fix it, you won't regret it. My daughter had a stuffed bear that was also a music box. It accidentally went through the washing machine.. It went silent. 30+ years later I found the bear and put a new music box in it and gave it to her for Christmas. She didn't understand until I told her to wind it. You would have though I'd given her a bar of gold. Leaky eyes ensued along with stories of her falling to sleep with it playing. The way sound can evoke memories cannot be understated. Get it fixed!
i have a music box on a bracelet which plays this 1950's
I love this song so much. I've saved several covers of it on my Old Jazz Playlist done by Lois Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Willie Nelson. All great!
This song is such a beautiful classic. Seems to take you to another world. I could listen to this over and over.
Had a radio show featuring all big band music, these classics never die, especially the immortal "Stardust".
Look at that picture of Hoagy at the piano, and sometimes with the toothpick or wooden match in his mouth -- tell me somewhere in his life singer-songwriter Tom Waits didn't see this picture: saying to himself -- if I combine a Louis Armstrong voice, a Beat poet's mentality with this look -- I'll have a career. I think he succeeded very well, but the original will always be Hoagy. Artists still sing his songs to this very day. Including George Harrison.
You make a great point, Mr. LaStrada! (And a great last name too, if you don't mind this Fellini fan saying so).
All artists build on prior art, especially today. Take Joe Cocker and Ray Charles. Like Hoagy, Tom Waits is an American Icon. It's been many years since I heard this version. What jumps out at me is how Hoagy completely revises the songbook version of the melody, something even most 'jazz' singers cannot do. 5 Stars for Hoagy.
George Harrison died in 2001
You are so right! Hoagy Carmichael and unrecognized genius of Music and sentimental romance!
@@bvoe9843 He is recognized. Not unrecognized.
Proof that great music is timeless.
Willie Nelson did an outstanding job on this song on his album of American Songbook classics that he called Stardust. 70 years after it was written and it was still being covered by leading artists.
Hats off to Hoagie for writing such a beautiful tune.
Perhaps the most beautiful song ever made in history ! ! !
Wonderful song! I heard it on The Crown.👑
This is the Best Version Ever! Dear Hoagy, the miracle of WB back lot music. Thank you for keeping it fresh. Love conquers all. 💕🙏🏻💕
Una vez subí a ver a mi padre, quien trabajaba en su taller y el silbaba esta melodía, ya la había olvidado, hasta hoy que ví la 5ta temporada de Crown y fue un placer volver a recordar
The greatest song about all songs. the stardust of stardust still shines. ⭐️
Who’s here because of The Crown Season 5? It’s too good.
Have been listening to it since way before the Crown but it was nice to hear it there too.😀
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Genius, i love when sings his music, very special rendition. Listen to his phasing, which how he visualized it being done.😢 gone but not forgotten 🎉
This is so beautiful. I’ve listened to it over the years but now for some reason it means so much more to me
I love this. What a wonderful mellifluous voice.
One of those songs that are so good one does not become bored of hearing it. The whistling adds a somewhat personal taste to it and it is very deep and sung with feeling.
I was born in Brazil, land of great composers, but I am very fond about american music. Since I was a child I used to hear the best of american music in the radios of Rio de Janeiro.
This version recalls gentler, more deeply humane time than ours... I love how he changes the melody from the original; it is so creative.
Thank you for posting this.I for got what an influence Hoagy had , and still does with True Jazz aficionados and lover of all things good and pure in its musical form! What a Perfect song!!Hoagy was among the greatest, (if not the top 3,or even #1)!!Excellent!!
I admit , came here for The Crown.
But a beautiful song it is 🤩
Wonderful song and original performance
Chanson préférée de la princesse Margaret ❤️
Hoagy was great, glad you played it for your mom. My mother passed 6 years ago at 101 and loved Hoagy what a great song guy. Remember the best years of our life's movie. That I think is where the video came from. Best to you.
Memories from my childhood, my parents played this when they threw a cocktail party, they and their friends were cool, as is this song.
The man was amazing -- both as a composer and a performer. I miss my youth when I hear this.
Hell!! Who could WHISTLE like that? Damn that was good!
The VERY BEST song ever put down on paper. Thanks
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Hoagie Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. From wiki 😀
MY FAVOURIE SONG...MERCI
One of those perfect songs with perfect music and words!