I've always believed "Stardust" to this day to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The legendary story of “Stardust”’s genesis goes that Hoagy Carmichael was walking around Indiana University’s campus one night in 1927, looking up at the starry sky and thinking about a past love, when the melody came to him. He stepped into a downtown coffee house known as “The Book Nook,” sat down at the piano inside, and out came this song.