Nat King Cole – Stardust

-Artist: Nat King Cole

-peak Billboard position # 79 in 1957

-Words by Mitchell Parish and Music by Hoagy Carmichael originally written as

-“Star Dust” in 1929.

-charted in 1930 by Irving Mills (#20)

-charted in 1931 by Isham Jones (#1), Bing Crosby (#5), Louis Armstrong (#16)

Wayne King (#17), and Lee Sims (#20).

-charted in 1935 by Jimmie Lunceford (#10).

-charted in 1936 by Benny Goodman (#2) and Tommy Dorsey (#8).

-charted in 1939 by Sammy Kaye (#16).

-charted in 1941 by Artie Shaw (#2), Tommy Dorsey (#7), and Glenn Miller (#20).

-charted in 1943 by Baron Elliot (#18) and Tommy Dorsey (#23).

-charted in 1957 by Billy Ward and His Dominoes featuring Jackie Wilson (#12).

-charted in 1962 by Frank Sinatra (#98)

-charted in 1964 by Nino Temple and April Stevens (#32).

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