Stardust (song)
Stardust is the title of a pop song by Hoagy Carmichael in 1927, which became one of the most covered songs of all time and a classic of big band era jazz standard and Evergreen.
Genesis
The song was first composed as a 32- taktiges instrumental piece. Supposedly, the song fell to the law students a Carmichael with an evening walk through the campus of Indiana, as he thought of the suicide note of his students love. Right after that he sat in the student pub Book Nook at the piano in order to audition the melody. The song was recorded for the first time by Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals on October 31, 1927 Gennett Records (catalog # 6311 ) as a jazz song with medium tempo as a B-side. Recording studio was not one of the famous in New York, but the Gennett Records of Richmond ( Virginia). For the recordings he recruited a band leader Emil Seidel and his band, as well as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. Carmichael caught allegedly in the Halloween night the sound engineer Harold Soule by 3 clock at night out of bed, the first take was done by 5 clock. " Hoagy fell backward from his piano stool and said, ' My masterpiece', which it was. " Carmichael was in his own words this inspired by the improvisations Bix Beiderbeckes. First, Stardust was received only moderate after its publication in January 1928, mainly from fellow musicians, some of whom (including Don Redman ) grossed their own version.
Features of the song
Stardust is Alec Wilder According with its unusual song form ABAC and its not easy singable melody " very unusual for a pop song ." After a chromatic upbeat ( hc- cis) the melody is in quarter notes down ( dcafd ), then back up ( FAEE ). Although the song is in C major is listed, the song begins in F major to lead over F minor, E minor and D minor to the dominant in G major.
Expansion of songs
1929 Carmichael worked the song to a slow ballad written by and supposedly now just a Vorstrophe (verses ), for their tune he built on the clock 7 of the chorus with. Mitchell Parish wrote a text to reminiscent of the supposed origins: "Sometimes I wonder why I spent so lonely night dreaming of a song". Irving Mills Hotsy Totsy took with his gear (with Jimmy Dorsey clarinet and piano Carmichael ) Carmichael's new, at its publisher Mills Music Now as Star Dust publicized arrangement of the song on September 20, 1929, and thus came to be released in January 1930 to number 20 of the American charts. On May 15, 1930, the band leader Isham Jones also played the song in an instrumental version, and thus reached on April 18, 1931 the top spot of the charts. His version made Stardust classic. Probably the version of Ben Selvin (1931 ) the first recording with text; Shortly afterwards, Jack Purvis sang with Ted Wallace and his Campus Boys the text. Successful versions of the Bing Crosby (# 15, 1931) and Louis Armstrong (# 16, 1931), the Stardust were his " immortality " secured.
Big-band versions
After the recording of Jimmie Lunceford (# 10, 1935) Stardust was covered to a standard of the big band era and by virtually every reputable bandleader and singer of this generation. Glenn Miller's arrangement was also very successful and reached No. 3 on the charts. Stardust first appeared a title of two bands on both sides of a disk recorded, namely the version of Tommy Dorsey (recorded on April 15, 1936) and Benny Goodman (April 23, 1936), published in May 1936 on Victor # 25320 (# 8 for Dorsey, # 2 for Goodman). Even Sammy Kaye (# 16, 1939), Artie Shaw (# 2, 1941) and Frank Sinatra (# 7, 1941) took part in the success of Stardust. Artie Shaw's version was then the most successful. It was formed on 7 October 1940 ( Victor # 27230 ), was released in December 1940 and reached the second place in the charts. The lyrical trumpet solo by Billy Butterfield at the beginning and Jack Jenney's brilliant trumpet solo at the end give this recording a special touch.
The way to Jazz Standard
The song was also recorded by Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and instrumentalists such as Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli ( on piano ). Show more recordings of Art Tatum Ben Webster to John Coltrane, that out of the pop song a through ball for jazz interpretations was. The popularity remains as versions of Pee Wee Ellis ( 1994) and Philip Catherine show. Even younger musicians like Harry Connick Jr., Lou Donaldson, Ernestine Anderson and Wynton Marsalis have interpreted the Jazz Standard. Some critics see in Stardust the most beautiful love ballad that has ever been written: Parish's haunting text, loneliness and nostalgia evoking, is perfectly integrated into the course of Carmichael's tune.
Statistics
It is equipped with more than 1800 recordings of one of the most frequently rehearsed songs of the 20th century and is in the U.S. to Silent Night and the St. Louis Blues third of the songs most commonly produced. The ASCAP lists 152 versions thereof.