Stardust (Willie Nelson album)

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Stardust is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson, consisting entirely of pop standards. A reissue was made in 1999, with two previously unreleased tracks. In 2003, the album was ranked number 257 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

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

Bonus tracks only found on the 1999 reissue:

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

Bonus tracks on the 2008 anniversary CD edition:

1. "What a Wonderful World" (George David Weiss and Bob Thiele)
2. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams)
3. "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (D. Dougherty, E. Reynolds and A. Neiburg)
4. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young)
5. "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid)
6. "Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
7. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
8. "Ole Buttermilk Sky" (Hoagy Carmichael and J. Brooks)
9. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Haven Gillespie and Beasley Smith)
10. "Little Things Mean a Lot" (E. Calisch and C. Stutz)
11. "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman)
12. "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon and Harry Warren)
13. "Tenderly" (Jack Lawrence and Walter Lloyd Gross)
14. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler)
15. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
16. "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, 8: from the album What a Wonderful World
• Track 2, 7: 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 Ludwick – drums
• Jody Payne – guitar
• Bee Spears – bass
• Chris Ethridge – bass
• Mickey Raphael – harmonica
• Booker T. Jones – organ, piano