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Long Ago and Far Away
Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedApril 7–9, 1958
VenueRadio Recorders, Los Angeles
GenreVocal jazz
Length35:18
LabelColumbia
Tony Bennett chronology
The Beat of My Heart
(1957)
Long Ago and Far Away
(1958)
In Person!
(1959)

Long Ago and Far Away is an album by American singer Tony Bennett that was released by Columbia in 1958.

Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard[2]

Billboard described the album as "a fine mood album"[2]

Track listing

  1. "It Could Happen to You" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 2:50
  2. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 3:13
  3. "Long Ago and Far Away" (Kern, Gershwin) – 2:55
  4. "It Amazes Me" (Coleman, Leigh) – 3:27
  5. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Kern, Fields) – 3:08
  6. "Be Careful, It's My Heart" (Berlin) – 2:15
  7. "My Foolish Heart" (Washington, Young) – 3:09
  8. "Time After Time" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:55
  9. "Fools Rush In" (Mercer, Bloom) – 2:09
  10. "A Cottage for Sale" (Robison, Conley) – 3:04
  11. "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:32
  12. "So Far" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) – 3:41

Recorded on April 7 (#1, 5, 7), April 8 (#2, 11–12) and April 9 (#3–4, 6, 8–10), 1958.

Personnel

Strings

  • Armond Kaproff (#1, 5, 7), Edgar Lustgarten (#1–2, 5, 7, 11–12), Raphael Kremer – violoncello
  • Israel Baker, Robert Barene, Sam Freed, Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Mort Herbert, Dan Lube, William Miller, Lou Raderman, Ambrose Russe, Albert Saparoff, Eudice Shapiro, David Frisina (#2, 11–12), Anatol Kaminsky (#2, 3–4, 6, 8–12) Paul Lowenkron (#2, 3–4, 6, 8–12), Victor Arno (#3–4, 6, 8–10) – violin
  • Norman Botnick (#2, 3–4, 6, 8–12), G. R. Menhennick (#3–4, 6, 8–10), Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Joseph Reilich, Milton Thomas – viola

References

  1. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Billboard Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums: Long Ago and Far Away" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 70, no. 33. August 25, 1958. p. 26.