You Are Never Far Away ( Theme )

Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Allan Roberts 

Roncom Music ASCAP

 

Theme version recorded 1961 ~

 

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

Recording Time :40 seconds

 

Matrix No. M5PW - 2288  Take 1 

SESSION MUSICIANS

May 15th & 17th, 1961

A Hugo & Luigi Production

 

Orchestra

 

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

 

Trumpet ~ James Maxwell

Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow 

Trumpet ~ Melvin Davis

Trumpet ~ James Milazzo 

 

Trombone ~ Robert Alexander 

Trombone ~ John D'agostino 

Trombone ~ Urban Green 

 

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Abraham Richman 

Sax ~ Stanley Webb 

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind 

 

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

 

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola 

Guitar ~ Danny Perri 

 

Drums ~ Sonny Igoe 

Drums ~ Arthur Marotti 

 

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

 

Harp ~ Margaret Ross 

 

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman 

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos 

Violin ~ Jack Zayde 

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff 

Violin ~ Harry Urbont 

Violin ~ Max Hollander 

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff 

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz  

 

Viola ~ Isadore Zir 

Viola ~ Howard Kay 

 

Cello ~ Maurice Brown 

Cello ~ Alan Shulman 

 

 

 

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.

| 1952 full lyrics version | 1958 Version | Digital Finder | 1970 Theme | 1980 Theme | Album Links |

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Second Edition Christmas 1993

Web Page Edition Christmas 1997

25th Anniversary Revision November, 2017

Digital Upgrade August, 2018

May 2022 Revised Edition

 

 

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