Stars Fell on Alabama

"Stars Fell on Alabama" is a jazz standard (music by Frank Perkins, lyrics by Mitchell Parish), written in 1934 and taking its name from a memoir by Carl Carmer published the same year. The memoir's title referred to an 1883 event when a meteor shower occurred in Alabama, while the song uses it in a more metaphorical sense while describing romance in a field.
Frequently recorded, versions include a duet by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as solo versions by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, and Jimmy Buffett.
==References==
*For the Muppet News Flash in The Muppet Show episode 519, The Newsman reports "Stars fell on Alabama last night" (quoting a repeated lyric) before stars land in the newsroom.
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