Tex Beneke With The Glenn Miller Orchestra
"Star Dust"
1946
This is not the version recorded by Glenn Miller himself--the one issued on Bluebird 10665 in 1940. Instead, we are hearing a remake recorded by the Miller ensemble soon after Glenn Miller died.
The tenor saxophone solo is by Tex Beneke, who excelled at this sort of improvisation on ballads.
Songwriters are Hoagy Carmichael (music) & Parish Mitchell (lyrics)
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
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night 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
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 fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain
Tex Beneke With The Glenn Miller Orchestra "Star Dust" (1940) Hoagy Carmichael & Parish Mitchell
"Star Dust"
1946
This is not the version recorded by Glenn Miller himself--the one issued on Bluebird 10665 in 1940. Instead, we are hearing a remake recorded by the Miller ensemble soon after Glenn Miller died.
The tenor saxophone solo is by Tex Beneke, who excelled at this sort of improvisation on ballads.
Songwriters are Hoagy Carmichael (music) & Parish Mitchell (lyrics)
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
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night 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
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 fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain
Tex Beneke With The Glenn Miller Orchestra "Star Dust" (1940) Hoagy Carmichael & Parish Mitchell
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