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Possibly the greatest standard ever written by anyone was this one by the great Hoagy Carmichael...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IxmMT0wpaU

And almost assuredly, the greatest cover of it ever done was this absolutely beautiful recording of it done by the great Nat King Cole...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPl6IDPTgRk&feature=related


When I was a student at Indiana there was a Greek restaurant at the edge of campus. It wasn't always a Greek restaurant. Many years earlier it had been a bookstore. There was still a grand piano in the corner. It was at that grand piano, a love lorn student named Hoagy Carmichael wrote the immortal 'Stardust' after having just been dumped by his girlfriend.