Long Ago (and Far Away)
"Long Ago (and Far Away)" | |
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Published | 1944 by Crawford Music |
Songwriter(s) | Ira Gershwin |
Composer(s) | Jerome Kern |
"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics about nostalgia[1] by Ira Gershwin from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and released by Columbia Pictures. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but lost out to “Swinging on a Star”, from Going My Way. The song was published in 1944 and sold over 600,000 copies in sheet music in a year.[2] In 2004 it finished #92 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
In the film it is sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears) to Gene Kelly, and later briefly reprised by Jinx Falkenburg. Charting versions were recorded almost simultaneously by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby,[3] Jo Stafford, and Perry Como.
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Johnny Desmond sang it in German with Glenn Miller and the American Band of the AEF during World War II. It was used as psychological warfare aimed at the German populace and especially the Wehrmacht.[6]
The song was used in the film Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) when it was sung by Kathryn Grayson.
Recorded versions
References
- ISBN 9780879725938.
- OCLC 538209.
- ^ "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #10". 1972.
- ^ a b c d Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research.
- ^ "Internet Movie Database". imdb.com. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
- ^ "Music For The Wehrmacht" (PDF).
- ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved July 31, 2017.