Song · Willie Nelson
“Stardust” by Willie Nelson
From the album Stardust (1978)
“Stardust” by Willie Nelson appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2020. It was first released in 1978 on the album Stardust. Its best result is #1247 on the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,881 indie & aaa song of all time.
Willie Nelson reached a long way back for the title song of his 1978 album Stardust, and he put it in the hands of Booker T. Jones, who produced it and wrote the arrangement, with Donivan Cowart and Bradley Hartman engineering.
The song was already half a century old. Hoagy Carmichael started whistling the tune in 1927 after leaving a college hangout in Indiana, built it around the end of a love affair and took the title at a classmate's suggestion; Mitchell Parish put words to it after Mills Music hired Carmichael the following year. By 1940 it was a standard, and it has now been recorded more than 1,500 times, Nelson's version among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1247 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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