Willie Nelson "Stardust"

[@johnjackson8561]

Willie is an American treasure.♥️🇨🇦👍🍻☘️🌲

[@dinoperedetout7464]

Thank you for sharing this. Peace, love, joy and health to you and yours.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Nat King Cole did the very best interpretation of this classic. Willie's version is raw & plantive in an everyman's way. I adore this song. Hats to you, Hoagy.

[@michaelswales4477]

About 50 yrs ago we danced to stardust album and I still remember the great times dancing with the love of my life. Thank You !!!!!!!! Willie, only memories remain

[@ricoricky98]

❤

[@Paqqqman]

Stardust is one of my favorite albums, this songs is a gem!

[@kelvinblogg8558]

Willie takes you there for that moment. Such a beautiful song

[@mdwoods100]

One of the most beautiful songs of all time. :)

[@kenhutley971]

When you lose your loved one to the stars you really do know that this is the best song ever devised by one human being for another.

[@ronaldlohman1246]

Great song...Phenomenal Entertainer.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

I totally agree with you, this is the best song ever written.

[@timhalloran8337]

It's being played at my mom's funeral Saturday. Agreed.

[@MarieSchopac]

I love this song and this man

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I saw Willie live in concert about 30 years ago- cripes, he put on a hell of a show!

[@billnelson9413]

Fantastic! I love this performance.

[@gracamtorres4663]

Fantastic !!

[@michaelochman1953]

The guitar, the voice, the phraseology. The ultimate performance of this song.

[@CongressAdmin]

So many thoughts about this vid. I love how he recognized his performing on land that once belonged to Native people. Yes! The audio is so clear. He’s literally playing for thousands of people, and yet the moment he plucks the first note, it feels like he’s sitting in your room. So intimate. His relaxed phrasing downplays his great musicianship. “Stardust” is a hard song, with lots of awkward intervals and a complicated structure. In his hands, it’s an effortless melody. And don’t get me started on the unadulterated romance of this song. The longing, the respect, and whistfulness of these lyrics instantly conjures, in us all, the memory of someone we’ve lost (romantic or otherwise). Willie is a true American legend, at an echelon reserved for a very very select few. What a gift to have all these recordings and to be able to appreciate whenever we want.

[@JIA1327]

Are you kidding me ? Many times during a song , he'll manage to almost whisper some words.You have to strain to hear what he is saying. You have to put in the words on your own because he barely says them. And he puts an emphasis on certain words that the rest of celebrity mainstream singers do not . And you know very well that he left out the first THIRD of the song. He puts the old Willie Nelson "twist" or "spin" on this and many other songs that screws it all up. He's a good musician , and has a good voice , but he's very unorthodox. Some people like that. I for one do not. As for the Native American Indians that lived in this country for thousands of years before it was taken away from them by force , millions of people don't believe that at all.Just like they don't believe Trump lost the election. And NASA's and other people's delusion about "reaching for the stars" is just that. A DELLUSION. With existing technology , we can barely go to the moon and back. The tragedies of APOLLO , the SPACE SHUTTLE , and recent setbacks of the private company going into space , shows just how infantile , inadequate , and lacking the "space program" really is. To travel to the stars , you would have to travel at the speed of light. Certainly many times the speed of light if you intend to make a round trip to there and back. That's never going to happen. That money and effort and know-how would be best put to use eliminating all of the problems here on EARTH before thinking about wasting it on trips to the stars.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

Willie Nelson himself has Native American ancestry as does Elvis, Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gale, Marty Stuart, Jimi Hendrix, Link Wray...

[@macjeffff]

Magnificent

[@lindakidd9477]

I had no idea Hoagy Carmichael wrote "Stardust". It's a great tune and sung well by Willie Nelson. Thank you, Willie.

[@georgeantonopoulos1597]

Hoagy wrote the music and Mitchell Parrish wrote the lyrics!

[@rosesgustavsson8335]

Fabulous the Manner Willie Nelson🌿🎶🎸🎶 this Song🎶❣

[@helencarson4680]

My favourite Willie Nelson song❤

[@bullitt7544]

Wow this is so powerful. I thought the Tonight Show recording was good. This has tears of pleasure and respect for HHC and Willie like none other.

[@bullitt7544]

My Newest Hero! Simply amazing. It to me only gives the original composition even more or rather an Up-to-Date emotion. Truly the BEST song ever written. Lovely. Thank You for posting.

[@carolekohlschmidt6899]

My mom's favorite song of all time.

[@waggsish]

your mom had great taste in music

[@petrahartwig6685]

One of te best songs❤❤❤❤

[@teddiestayner8001]

I love love love this wonderful, special man.

[@osprey1313]

My favorite song. Thanks for posting

[@Az2013ful]

Perfect!! Thank you so much for this wonderful video.

[@timothyrobyncoan493]

This is a killer version vocally and elegant solo...in his prime. Willie!

[@ArcoZakus]

Timothy Robyn Coan, "This is a killer version vocally ... " So is this one: "Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael (Ft. Josh Turner)" -- Allison Young kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2m6g2yrfayLpK8

[@timothyrobyncoan493]

@@ArcoZakus Yes indeed. When people are this good...one must listen a second time.

[@lilly6991]

He;s Awsome :)

[@bmccumstie]

Thanks for this clip - love it - we do a tribute to Stardust with a little history and Willie's intro will be great to relate to Australian audiences -we will make sure they know about your clip

[@waggsish]

This is Perfection.

[@janetbowe6642]

Always look angels above and our lord

[@richardpedersen9189]

Thank You, Sir!

[@eunicepaulovich7747]

Stardust na voz de Willie Nelson, fica adorável!

[@gericroft7150]

So beautiful

[@lprajzner]

Love it.

[@worldslargestboard]

so great

[@lilly6991]

Even Still :) I Love this song -

[@The2009tr]

i love this song

[@harvesterofsorrow7492]

2:28 goosebumps

[@theweaponeer1]

Great post!

[@danmcmahon8566]

Larry Brown, thanks for posting this wonderful live rendition of Stardust by Willie. Please tell me in what year this was recorded. Thank you.

[@JustCallMeLoathesome]

I've never seen his guitar in that condition before. Shiny. New.

[@rickwaldron4255]

In star.dust willie makes trigger Cry very well

[@waggsish]

there's another full verse in Hoagy's song... And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of yesterday The music of the years gone by. Sometimes I wonder, how I spend The lonely nights Dreaming of a song The melody Haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago And now my consolation is in the stardust of a song Besides the garden wall, when stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale Tells his fairytale Of paradise, where roses grew Though I dream in vain In my heart it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain.

[@runswithsisors]

when was this. trigger was still in good shape

[@luketracey526]

+tommy gunn that is not trigger...that is just some other classical he was using at the time. He would use another guitar for certain shows because this was his tax problem era (88'-92') and he was afraid they would confiscate his guitar from him.

[@kev40kev]

tommy gunn That isn't Trigger .

[@Hawkswill]

Interesting, thanks!

[@kyleelinesky4180]

this is a tremendous post! What show is this, and is there more video??? Stellar performance by Willie, as usual

[@larrybrown440]

Thanks, this is from "Kenny Dolly and Willie" a NBC special. I also posted a duet with Willie and Kenny playing "Blue Skies", wish I had more video to post, but there might be some out there on the web.

[@pamford1065]

I love Willie I hope he sangs this to Annie every night. He can made trigger sang too.

[@georgemccall8213]

I think of my band teacher andy cousin Mr Wilbur Motley

[@RemoVegas]

I'm Tell'n The ENTIRE WORLD - Willie OWNS This FUCKING SONG... NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE - CAN SING OR PLAY THIS SONG BETTER.. NOT EVEN HOAGY'S ORIGINAL COMES EVEN CLOSE... & I HATE THE SPACE SHIT THEY SNUK IN HERE..!

[@lacyswallows5046]

I have built 7 studios. I have engineered live broadcasts from Megadeath to Ian Anderson. I mention that only so you know I have a bit of credibility. I have a million questions for you. My first is was that live or post. Either way it is VERY impressive. If that was a live mix you are just shy of genius and well deserve that Emmy. It is an impressionistic piece and had to be difficult. Personally I disliked the "rocket man" type accents added. That brings me to..no band? How much was back tracked? I liked the studio arraignment of this better. It was the arrangement not your mix. I was thinking it could have been simply a killer acoustic presentation. But DANG the organ part sells it,

[@larrybrown440]

Lacy Swallows Hi Lacy, thanks for the kind words, although a bit late here's a few answers for you. The show was all live, no back tracking or pre records, and it was mixed at my studio in LA. I agree with you on the "Rocket Man" stuff but love Willie's performance. The organ part was played by Edgar Struble, Kenny Rogers musical director, and yes it sells it ! Best Larry

[@marcholland1554]

Except Willie is actually singing about a huge joint he named Stardust and finished long ago.

[@rust_is_pro]

goomgamginga

[@gabib3277]

The Indians never would've gotten us to the moon.

[@dong1872]

As if "we" needed to go to the moon. Sounds like you are suggesting that Indians are somehow not as intelligent as "us", whoever that is - it's too bad if you think that way, my friend. "We" never would have found a code the Germans couldn't break and thus won WWll, if it were not for the Indians.

[@leapinglouie5908]

Gabi, who knows what the Native peoples of this continent could have achieved if not for your conniving trashy polluting intoxicated ancestors