This song brings back the memories... Not exactly the comedic or unnerving memories. Just the memories. Memories of spending my days with sitting on a seat, gazing into that blue sky. The same sky i saw the day i fell in love with him; the same sky i saw the day when i would read books as i sat next to old friends who seem like strangers in the night now; the same night skies i saw when i spent my night on a cruise ship. All memories i can recall, comforting or not, they're all tied to not only this song, but the wonderful music from the wonderful times in life. As comforting as it may be to recall the encounters, sometimes, it shatters my heart to know there will never be a day where I'll relive what I've lived; and even when you do, you never quite know it until it's over. Those sad days you see now, they become the best memories in your life in the future. Not just because it's the first thought to come into mind, but because of how unique it was to live those days.. Days you'll never quite experience the same way again, whether for the worse or the better. Cherish every last memory with every last person before you get the chance to lose them.
Well said!! At 85 years....ooooh so many memories of ALL kinds... What you wrote can be published--I say that as a retired writer/editor. Thank you for a 'delicious' reminder.
Pienso que es una pieza que va al cielo y regresa con buenas nuevas . Me recuerdo cuando mi hijo estaba hospitalizado y yo repetía esta canción y me calmaba mi inquietud y reconfortaba..el señor mancini debió tener un encuentro del tercer tipo al crear esta pieza tan maravillosa...que dios lo tenga en la gloria...
I rember this song. i was siting on a swing on my aunts front porch and she had the radio on and that was about 1945. IT'S was beatiful then and it's beatiful NOW.........
I keep coming back to Mancini for the sounds I love to hear. Nobody else can make a song sound so good. His impeccable sense of rhythm, and the fact that he always used the best players around, make his music unforgettable.
I love this soft beautiful sound. I'm such a fan of piano music and this was the very first piece of music that I learned to play on the piano. Nothing tops this. Thanks Henry Mancini!
Back in those days, this was one of the many great slow dance music. Wish I could go back in time right now. The pace was so easy then. I miss the romance which is nowhere to be found these days. It seems like today's teens have burnt that bridge.
No better way to hear Star Dust than to hear Mr.Mancini play it for me tonight.This is so lovely. So many recorded this beautiful song. Didn't know Mr.Mancini did too. I love it. Thanks.
Beautiful music and it brings me back lots of sweet memories on my junior and senior high school days which unfortunately were more than 60 years ago and I certainly miss them now!
Each person has his/her own sweet and/or bitter memories in his/her whole life and certainly none of them will ever be the same. It's better that we keep those sweet memories with us and try to forget the bitter ones.
This was the greatness of Hoagy Carmichael long before Henry Mancini ever came along. However, Mancini is one of the greatest. I am amazed by the amount of work he did for music and cinema lovers.
A música STARDUST é uma obra prima com origem nos CÉUS DA INSPIRAÇÃO CELESTIAL. Figurará para sempre entre as grandes melodias norteamericanas embalando os melhores sonhas no coração de quem ouvem com alma e os melhores sentimentos..
The sign is from the old Stardust Casino in Las Vegas, now torn down. But the song was first written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1929....There are so many wonderful recordings of this song, but the best is by the king Nat King Cole. He has a voice as smooth as hot fudge, a classic.
Our music was like salve for the tender heart... the horns, the beautiful longing strings... Mancini's piano... all combined to sooth whatever was bruised. A great big thanks to Hoagy Carmichael who wrote this. Soundtrack of my youth 🎼 🖤
And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of yesterday The music of the years gone by
I would call this genre of music 'studio jazz'....highly arranged, but yet very relaxed, with some room for improvisation..Mancini was the king of this. 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' his best! You'll love it.
Computers are at least good for one thing; they have allowed me to re-live those precious moments that I'd thought once lost. I, until recently had considered that these beautiful sounds be but a distant memory; a perfect moment in past! I'm but only fourty years of age and now feel timeless. Thank-You & God Bless all of us!
What a beautiful, romantic Hoagy Carmichael song! Probably his best. If you enjoy Willie Nelson's version, as I do, let me recommend his wonderful album/CD of standards of the same title. I believe it's his best record. I had the good fortune to see him in concert with Leon Russel, in Atlanta, during their "Two For the Road" tour. As an unannounced guest star, Willie introduced Linda Ronstadt! For an encore, Willie played the whole of his aforementioned "Stardust" album. As he is fond of saying at the start of his concerts, "We'll have a good time tonight. You'll get tired before we do!" Like Hoagy Carmichael, Willie is a wonderful songwriter and musician, a true American treasure.
I use to have that Willie Nelson CD I would love to acquire it again!! Also, His version of Moonlight in Vermont from the same recording is my favorite!!
I love this music, my daughter gets married in couple weeks and im still looking for a song to share or Father Daughter dance to. I really want to dance to this does anyone think its not suitable?
it's perfectly suitable. I used it at my 25th wedding anniversary. Admittedly we did it as part of a spoof production of "War of the Worlds", but it would be a charming slow dance.
My husband and daughter used Stardust as their dance. The gorgeous melody overrides the lamenting lyrics. And even though it's a joyous occasion, there is a tinge of sadness to the father-daughter dance...passage of time kinda thing.
My music students who were "older" than I was would often complain that I was teaching them "young people's music" that they had a hard time relating to. I always asked them what they wanted instead. 100% of them replied without hesitation, "Stardust".
