It was 1833, and the "Night that the stars fell". The Leonid meteor shower is an annual event each August. The 1833 shower in Alabama was no wind and no clouds and so the show was exceptional. Guy Lombardo recorded the first version of the 1934 jazz classic. Jimmy did a version (as did literally a hundred others). I do like Jimmy's version, from an Alabama native.
The Stars Fell On Alabama (music: Frank Perkins; Lyrics: Mitchell Parish):
We lived our little drama
We kissed in a field of white
And stars fell on Alabama last night
I can't forget the glamour
Your eyes held a tender light
And stars fell on Alabama last night
I never planned in my imagination
A situation so heavenly
A fairy land where no one else could enter
And in the center just you and me, dear
My heart beat like a hammer
My arms wound around you tight
And stars fell on Alabama last night
I never planned in my imagination
A situation so heavenly
A fairy land where no one else could enter
In the center just you and me, dear
My heart beat like a hammer
My arms wound around you tight
And stars fell on Alabama last night
What a great song. I remember when the Stars fell on Maine in 1979 or so. But August nights there are frequently cloud free and windless too. As are February nights when you can see the Northern Lights.
But not a lot of great songs from Maine if you discount Rudy Vallee. On a very not-Rudy-Vallee vein, here's the great English singer Vera Lynn ("The White Cliffs Of Dover) sounding like, well, she's not from Alabama but might be from Michigan or somewhere like that. Her biography is worth reading, if you're a regular here.
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The Perseid meteor shower in August as well, always a good one never as good as my first viewing in the Rockies above Gunnison and Taylor lake many years ago
After hearing Vera Lynn sing that song... I like Jimmy Buffet. I really do. He should have left this one alone though...
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