Star Dust

Hoagy Carmichael wrote the tune in 1927 in Bloomington, a year after finishing law school at Indiana University, and his friend Stuart Gorrell suggested the title. On October 31, 1927, Carmichael recorded it at Gennett Studios in Richmond, Indiana, as a medium fast instrumental with no words.

Mills Music published it as a piano piece in January 1929. Irving Mills then had Mitchell Parish write lyrics, and the song version came out in May 1929 in C. Isham Jones's slower 1930 recording for Brunswick made it a hit, and Artie Shaw's 1940 record sold about a million copies.