You know of course that STAR DUST was written as a rag-time-tune and was an big instant failure. Shortly afterwards Isham Jones(I think) slowed the tempo to a ballad and MITCHELL PARISH wrote the lyrica, It then became dynamite with >1600 DIFFERENT RECORDINGS through the years...Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Willie Nelson among many others.

The lyrics are beautiful, especially the verse. Sinatra once recorded just the verse.

Mitchell Parish was not a one-shot wonder...he wrote Sophisticated Lady with the Duke, Moonlight Serenade.... Glen Miller's theme song, Stars Fell on Alabama. Syncopated Clock and Sleighride with Leroy Anderson...plus another thousand or so. Of course he had his share of "dogs" like "Yep the Zep Came Over" (the Graf Zeppelin) and "I Wish There Was ao Heaven" 1930.

As you may have noticed, we shared the same surname, which makes sense since he was my father. I try to give him his rightful due whenever I can.

Signed PARISH