Tex Beneke With The Glenn Miller Orchestra <br /><br />"Star Dust" <br /><br />1946 <br /><br />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. <br /><br />The tenor saxophone solo is by Tex Beneke, who excelled at this sort of improvisation on ballads. <br /><br />Songwriters are Hoagy Carmichael (music) & Parish Mitchell (lyrics) <br /><br />And now the purple dusk of twilight time <br />Steals across the meadows of my heart <br />High up in the sky the little stars climb <br />Always reminding me that we're apart <br /><br />You wander down the lane and far away <br />Leaving me a song that will not die <br />Love is now the stardust of yesterday <br />The music of the years gone by <br /><br />Sometimes I wonder why I spend <br />The lonely night dreaming of a song <br />The melody haunts my reverie <br />And I am once again with you <br /><br />When our love was new <br />And each kiss an inspiration <br />But that was long ago, now my consolation <br />Is in the stardust of a song <br /><br />Beside a garden wall <br />When stars are bright, you are in my arms <br />The nightingale tells his fairy tale <br />A paradise where roses bloom <br /><br />Though I dream in vain <br />In my heart it will remain <br />My stardust melody <br />The memory of love's refrain <br /><br />Tex Beneke With The Glenn Miller Orchestra "Star Dust" (1940) Hoagy Carmichael & Parish Mitchell <br />
