STARDUST
WILLIE
NELSON
SONGWRITERS: SONGWRITER:
HOAGY CARMICHAEL & MITCHELL PARISH
COUNTRY:
U.S.A.
ALBUM: WILLIE
NELSON
LABEL: SONY
LEGACY
GENRE: EASY
LISTENING
YEAR: 1978
Stardust
is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson that spans the genres of pop, jazz,
and country music. Its ten songs consist entirely of pop standards that Nelson picked from among his favorites. Nelson asked Booker T. Jones,
who was his neighbor in Malibu at the time, to arrange a version of
"Moonlight in Vermont".
Impressed with
Jones's work, Nelson asked him to produce the entire album. Nelson's
decision to record such well-known tracks was controversial among Columbia executives because he had distinguished himself in the outlaw country genre.
Recording of the album
took only ten days.
Released
in April, Stardust was met with high sales and near-universal positive reviews.
It peaked at number one in Billboard's Top Country Albums and
number thirty in the Billboard 200.
Meanwhile, it charted at number one in Canadian RPM's Country
Albums and number twenty-eight in RPM's Top
Albums. The singles "Blue Skies"
and "All of Me"
peaked respectively at numbers one and three in Billboard's Hot Country Singles.
In
1979, Nelson won a Grammy Award for Best Male
Country Vocal Performance for the song "Georgia on My Mind". Stardust was on
the Billboard's Country Album charts for ten years—from its release until 1988.
The album also
reached number one in New Zealand and number five in Australia in 1980. In
2003, the album was ranked number 257 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
It was originally certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association
of America in December 1978. In 1984, when it was certified
triple platinum, Nelson was the highest-grossing concert act in the United
States. In 2002, the album was certified quintuple platinum,
and it was later inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame class of 2015.
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 wandered
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
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
But that was
long ago
Now my
consolation
Is in the
stardust of a song
Beside the
garden wall
When stars are
bright
You are in my
arms
The nightingale
tells his fairy tale
Of paradise
where roses grew
Though I dream
in vain
In my heart it
always will remain
My stardust
melody
The memory of
love's refrain
When our love
was new
And each kiss an
inspiration
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