Irving Mills' Orch. plays Carmichael's "Star Dust", 1929

Irving Mills & His Hotsy Totsy Gang - Star Dust (Hoagy Carmichael) Brunswick 1929
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Irving MILLS (1894, New York City -- 1985, New York City) - was born in the Jewish ghetto on the East Side of Jewish parents (his mother and father were born in Odessa, Russia) to become one of the most important composers, song publishers, band and orchestra managers in the Jazz Age. (In 1920/30s he also managed for Duke Ellington and His Orchestra). In the 1920s and early 1930s he would put together his own bands, where he directed, sung and played violin. One of his bands that recorded for Brunswick Records from 1928 to 1930 was called Irving Mills And His Hotsy Totsy Gang and used a collective personnel that had some of the best white jazz musicians of the period in its ranks including Benny Goodman, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Hoagie Carmichael and Joe Venuti among others. He sometimes used Black trumpeter Bill Moore, who had played and recorded with the California Ramblers from 1922 to 1925 who was very light-skinned and was billed as the Hot Hawiian and predated Jelly-Roll Morton in recording with white bands and orchestras. Irving Mills stayed active in the music business into the 1970s and though listed as co-composer on some of the 1920s and early 1930s sheet music and recordings of music composed by Duke Ellington, he most likely had little or nothing to do with composing them.
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Hoagy Carmichael's „Star Dust" (or: „Stardust") is one of the greatest jazz standards in the history. First recorded in 1927 for Gennett (Richmond, Indiana) by Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals was almost destroyed by the owner who thought, the tune wasn't good enough. The song, however, went on from this humble beginnings to be one of the most popular songs of the 20th Century.

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[avdreader1]

It was McCartney who wrote "Yesterday" not Lennon. I like Stardust more than that one.

[avdreader1]

It's Indiana University...

[johnkenilworth]

Stardust is the most 'covered' popular song of all time, beating the druggie Lennon into a poor second place.

[dancoffey]

Hoagy Carmichael was a student at the University of Indiana and walking across campus when this melody came into his head. Fortunately, he knew there was a piano in the student union, so he stopped there, worked out the melody and wrote it down. What would have happened if he hadn't been near a piano?

[roybo1930]

GOD IT`S A SHAME THEY DON`T WRITE SONGS LIKE THIS ANYMORE! This is just BEAUTIFUL INDEED!

[JCJasion]

@merrihew - The sax writing develops on Charmichael's earlier recording and his piano passages, and I feel it's also informed by how Don Redman arranged for reeds.

[sleepypie]

The great Victor Young (When I Fall in Love, 3 Coins in the Fountain, Around the World, Stella by Starlight, My Foolish Heart, Golden Earrings, Love Letters, numerous soundtracks like Shane, Quiet Man, Rio Grande) created the arrangement we mostly know - the "beautiful" one recorded by most great singers/orchestras from the mid-1930's or so to the present. Then again, Hoagy Carmichael, not only a great composer, was also how Ian Fleming envisioned his James Bond character originally.

[JCJasion]

Wonder whether Don Redman had a hand in this particular arrrangement. I realize that the sax passages are likely a transcription of Hoagy's original piano version, but still the voicings... I wonder.

[Corrie121]

Wonderful arrangement and rendition of this fabulous song. All round great presentation, for which you must be commended.

I like this orchestra, and wonder if you have their version of "I Couldn't If I Wanted To".

Thank you for sharing this great post.

[KENPAUL190187]

18-f. i like this vid

soooo nice kY