Stardust (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Stardust
Type = Album
Artist = Willie Nelson


Released = 1978
Recorded = December 3 – December 12, 1977
Genre = Country/Pop standards
Length = 36:43
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Booker T. Jones
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nfkvu3t5an6k link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1679&name=Willie+Nelson link]
* NeuFutur Rating|4|5 [http://neufutur.com/?p=3696 link]
*Pitchfork Media (9.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/144526-willie-nelson-stardust-legacy-edition link]
*"Rolling Stone" (Not Rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/willienelson/albums/album/184692/review/6067773/stardust link]
Last album = 7th
"Waylon and Willie" (with Waylon Jennings)
(1978)
This album = 8th
"Stardust"
(1978)
Next album = 9th
"Willie and Family Live"
(1978)

"Stardust" is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson, consisting entirely of pop standards. A reissue was made in 1999, with two previously unreleased tracks. RS500|257

Track listing

# "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:53
# "Georgia on My Mind" (Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 4:20
# "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin) – 3:34
# "All of Me", (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) – 3:54
# "Unchained Melody" (Hy Zaret, Alex North) – 3:50
# "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 4:35
# "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:36
# "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:25
# "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
# "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:03

Bonus tracks only found on the 1999 reissue:

# "Scarlet Ribbons" (J. Segal and Evelyn Danzig) – 4:30
# "I Can See Clearly Now" (Johnny Nash) – 4:18

Bonus tracks on the 2008 anniversary CD edition:

# "What A Wonderful World" (George David Weiss and Bob Thiele)
# "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams)
# "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (D. Dougherty, E. Reynolds and A. Neiburg)
# "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young)
# "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid)
# "Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
# "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
# "Ole Buttermilk Sky" (Hoagy Carmichael and J. Brooks)
# "That Lucky Old Sun" (Haven Gillespie and Beasley Smith)
# "Little Things Mean A Lot" (E. Calisch and C. Stutz)
# "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman)
# "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon and Harry Warren)
# "Tenderly" (Jack Lawrence and Walter Lloyd Gross)
# "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler)
# "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
# "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent and Matt Dennis)

The "bonus" tracks are taken from other Nelson albums and do not date from the original "Stardust" sessions.

*Track 1: from the album "What a Wonderful World"
*Track 2, 7, 8: from the album "The Promiseland"
*Track 3, 4, 6: from the album "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
*Track 5, 16: from the album "Angel Eyes"
*Track 9: from the album "The Sound In Your Mind"
*Track 10: from the album "Born For Trouble"
*Track 11: from the album "City of New Orleans"
*Track 12: from the album "Without a Song"
*Track 13-15: from the album "One For the Road"

Personnel

*Willie Nelson – vocals, guitar
*Bobbie Nelson – piano
*Paul English – drums
*Rex Ludwig – drums
*Jody Payne – guitar
*Bee Spears – bass
*Chris Ethridge – bass
*Mickey Raphael – harmonica
*Booker T. Jones – organ, piano