[Dixielandjazz] FW: "Star Dust" (was Standard Keys)

[Hal Vickery]

This is correct.  Parish was a lyricist.  I don't know of any music he composed.

Oddly enough the sheet music I have for a piano solo version of "Moonlight Serenade" (transcribed from Jess Stacy's playing) simply says "By Mitchell Parish and Glenn Miller."  I don't think anyone is going to say Parish wrote the tune for "Moonlight Serenade"...or for "Sleigh Ride" for that matter.

I remember being in a discussion, here or someplace else, a few years ago in which there was a claim that Carmichael stole "Star Dust" (as it was then called) from somebody's father or grandfather, who was so crushed by the the incident that he never wrote another piece of music in his life or some such rubbish.

Hal Vickery

> From: jobriant at garlic.com
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:28:24 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "Star Dust" (was Standard Keys)
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: hvickery_80 at msn.com
> 
> Al Levy wrote:
> 
> > To the best of my knowledge
> > Hoagy did NOT write "Stardust"
> > Hoagy wrote "Sometimes I wonder why" etc 
> > Mitchell Parish wrote the music.
> 
> =================
> 
> According to Wikipedia, it was the other way around:
> 
> 	"Stardust" is an American popular song 
> 	composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael 
> 	with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell 
> 	Parish. ...
> 
> 	Mitchell Parish wrote lyrics for the song, 
> 	based on his own and Carmichael's ideas, 
> 	which were published in 1929.
> 
> Jim O'Briant
> Gilroy, CA
> 
> 
> 
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