He’s written the words to many of America’s most cherished standards, starting with the classic “Stardust,” with music by Hoagy Carmichael, a song which he said he knew “in his gut” was important.

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The 1934 classic jazz standard, “Stars Fell on Alabama,” originated when the famed lyricist Mitchell Parish noticed a recently published book of that title by former University of Alabama professor ...

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NEW YORK — Mitchell Parish, who put words to Hoagy Carmichael’s “Star Dust” and watched it become the most-recorded song ever written, is dead at 92. Mr. Parish set words to the tunes of some of the ...