44 Years In the past Right now: Willie Nelson Proves His Document Firm Fallacious

Willie Nelson scored one of many greatest successes of his profession with Stardust, an album that his report firm did not even need him to report and launch. Stardust was licensed quadruple platinum on Jan. 9, 1990, after promoting greater than 4 million copies.

Stardust featured Nelson’s interpretations of time-honored songs from the Nice American Songbook, together with classics from Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin and others. The music was a dramatic departure from the Outlaw Nation that had made Nelson well-known, and Columbia Information executives had been by no means enthusiastic in regards to the mission’s adventurous mixture of nation, pop, jazz and folks.

“[It’s] one other a kind of albums that they stated, ‘This isn’t a good suggestion. It prices an excessive amount of cash initially, and these previous songs, no one needs to listen to ‘em anymore,’” Nelson later recalled. “Once more, they had been improper.”

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Launched in April of 1978, Stardust scored Nelson a string of hits with “Georgia on My Thoughts,” “Blue Skies,” “All of Me” and “September Track.” The album reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s Nation Albums chart, and it additionally hit No. 30 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Nelson additionally received Finest Nation Vocal Efficiency, Male, for his rendition of “Georgia on My Thoughts” on the Grammy Awards.

The album went on to make historical past on Aug. 13, 1988, when it marked 10 consecutive years on Billboard‘s Nation Albums chart, and on Jan. 9, 1990, Stardust was licensed quadruple platinum for gross sales in extra of 4 million items,

Stardust went on to promote greater than 5 million copies and remained on the charts for a complete of 540 weeks. The Grammy Corridor of Fame inducted the album into its archives in 2015.

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