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You Are Never Far Away
( Closing Theme )
- Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by
Allan Roberts
- Roncom Music ASCAP
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- Theme version recorded 1961 ~
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- Arrangements by Joe Lipman and
Jack Andrews
- With Mitchell Ayres and
His Orchestra
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- Recorded May
17th, 1961, at RCA
Victor's Studio A, New York City
- Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
- Recording Time :40 seconds
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- Matrix No. M5PW -
2288 Take 1
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SESSION MUSICIANS
- May 15th & 17th, 1961
- A Hugo & Luigi Production
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- Orchestra
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- Leader: Mitchell Ayres
- Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross
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- Trumpet ~ James Maxwell
- Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow
- Trumpet ~ Melvin Davis
- Trumpet ~ James Milazzo
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- Trombone ~ Robert Alexander
- Trombone ~ John D'agostino
- Trombone ~ Urban Green
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- Sax ~ Harry Terrill
- Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman
- Sax ~ Abraham Richman
- Sax ~ Stanley Webb
- Sax ~ Philip Zolkind
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- Piano ~ Henry Rowland
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- Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola
- Guitar ~ Danny Perri
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- Drums ~ Sonny Igoe
- Drums ~ Arthur Marotti
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- Bass ~ Robert Haggart
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- Harp ~ Margaret Ross
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- Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman
- Violin ~ Mac Ceppos
- Violin ~ Jack Zayde
- Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff
- Violin ~ Harry Urbont
- Violin ~ Max Hollander
- Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff
- Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz
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- Viola ~ Isadore Zir
- Viola ~ Howard Kay
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- Cello ~ Maurice Brown
- Cello ~ Alan Shulman
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- First record releases: ~ the
theme "You Are Never Far Away" has been
recorded several
- times as a closing to Como albums and
used many times during closing and program credits
- for
the Perry Como television shows and specials. It was
recorded as a closing for Perry's first
- full stereophonic album, "Saturday Night With Mr.
C." released as LSO/LOP 1004 in 1958 and
- as a
closing for the 1961 album "Sing to Me Mr. C."
released as LSP/LPM 2390 and it was
- performed on both
"live" albums recorded in 1970 and 1980. The
original 1952 recording
- should have been released in the
1968 RCA Camden compilation "You Are Never Far
Away"
- CAS-2201(e) but inadvertently the short theme
from "Saturday Night With Mr. C." was used
- instead and, adding insult to injury, in monaural or
electronically reprocessed stereo only!
- Unfortunately,
this oversight was not corrected with the compact disc
release either.
-
- Notes: ~ This song has been the
closing theme for Mr. Como's television show from almost
- the time it was first recorded in 1952. Strangely,
though, the full version recording was not
- released by
RCA Victor until it's inclusion in the BMG compact disc
box set
- "Yesterday & Today ~ A Celebration in
Song" more than forty years later.
- On at least one
occasion, perhaps forgetting that he had recorded it, Mr.
Como
- had commented that he might one day record the full
version, and so it was
- with considerable surprise that
the full version emerged in 1993.
-
- Arrangements by Joe Lipman and
Jack Andrews
- With Mitchell Ayres and
His Orchestra
- Recorded May
17th, 1961, at RCA
Victor's Studio A, New York City
- Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
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