stardust

Equals parts ragtime-era sap and Neruda-esque imagery, probably the only song I can feel classy enough requesting from an old school piano player. (I've met two in my life, both in New Orleans, each time with an head lift of "oh yes, I know it" and then a nod of "nice choice, young man")

wikipedia entry under Legacy :

'"Stardust" is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,800 recordings, perhaps the last popular version by Spanky and Our Gang in 1968. In 1956, a nationwide Billboard survey of disc jockeys showed that their number one favorite of all time was the Artie Shaw (1941) recording of Stardust. In 1999, Stardust was included in the "NPR 100",[3] in which National Public Radio sought to list the one hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century. In New Year 2000 the Swedish music reviewers voted it as "the tune of the century", with Kurt Weill's "Mack the Knife" as second. In 2004, Carmichael's original 1927 recording of the song was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.'

Lyrics:

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 were 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

Chorus:

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
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, and 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 you will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of loves refrain.

If Bret can post about his love of The Sound of Music, I can about this... 

:doug @ 8:13 PM

the twenties

72,000 cigarettes
2,000 introductions
100 first kisses
30 women
10 apartments
9 roommates
8 good friends
7 employments
6 vacations
5 funerals
4 weddings
3 careers
2 cars
1 home

one love of my life 

:doug @ 10:48 PM