Long Ago [and Far Away] by Jerome Kern

[lamsalgado]

Wow, Jerome Kern's wonderful music beautifullysung and played! Many Thx!

[TheNick1951]

Essa letra é perfeita!

[oakroom48]

@TheNick1951 Thank you!

[nancylamottfan]

I love the Maureen McGovern version in which she coupled this song with "All the Things You Are" and made them just the most gorgeous ever.

Soprano Sylvia McNair also did it beautifully, too.

[oakroom48]

@nancylamottfan Thank you.

[highvoice46]

This is a nice piece. Thanks for posting. BTW, who is the singer?

[oakroom48]

@highvoice46 Joan Morris - glad you like it :)

[AnastasioFranco]

Does anyone have the music score for that? I would much appreciate to have a copy

[ilovescarlatti]

Dear lady, thank you for your replay!!!. I like so much your rendition of this piece. I will hear you on other posts.... . Regarding to Mr Kern i love so much his music and i remenber, as a teen ager, that i have been impressed of "the way you look Tonight" by Ray Conniff. I love so much American composers, expecially those which have realized music for movies (.... Mancini, Hermann, Newman, Tiomkin , ...) . Wishes from Italy, Como Lake, Bellagio

[ilovescarlatti]

kern another music genius !!!!

[oakroom48]

It's true - thanks for commenting :)

[SmolderingRuin]

My mother used to play it on the piano. I always liked it. Nice version. Thanks.

[oakroom48]

Thank you so much for commenting!

[jakkitee]

can someone sing this beautiful song without vibrato??

[AnastasioFranco]

@jakkitee what's your problem with vibrato?

[hughmackie]

@jakkitee Jo Stafford, with not much vibrato. Check her version on this site.

[playwrite2000]

From "Cover Girl"???

[megansspark]

beautiful!!! thanks Barbara

[oakroom48]

Hi Megan:) Glad you liked it!! -Barb^^

[FiDiTanzer528]

They sure knew how to write lyrics back then. Music's not bad either. :) Nice to hear Joan Morris again. I wonder if I still have those LPs...

[oakroom48]

I love Morris & Bolcom in these!! Folks didn't get as enthused for this as for All the Things You Are. Hmmm .. ya' can't win 'em all! Thanks for commenting :)

[rogharm]

i am enthused as you perform my favorite song. great voice great arrangement love it. did not hear all the things you are but i love that song too!!! great performance*********you are incorrect you won with me i am a tough self styled uneducated music critic and you get 100%. i know and appreciate quality and this performance has quality!!! how do i find all the things you are? i have the thomas hampson version on my favorites in youtube.

[superdooperstupor]

No better combination than Kern and

Gershwin, as this lovely song proves.

To have a dream come true! Perhaps that will happen if I listen to this performance often enough. "Dream" in this context is restrictive, meaning No Nightmares. I don't want to dream that Dick Cheney is beside me. What a horror! Thank you for posting this, Barbara. The image is a serene choice of soothing, gentle reassurance.

Kestal

[oakroom48]

K, -->dream that Dick Cheney is beside me/ Egad - arrghhh !!! Uh, yes. Definitely restrictive. No nightmares .. ack - ugh - eek !! Thanks for commenting:)

[saiserieht]

Dreamy and lovely!

[oakroom48]

Sounds like lyrics by Ira Gershwin! Thanks for the comment:)

[Glenmed]

Nothing like the good old american song book to banish the headache! We put those dictionaries away and the tablets - and don't we feel good!

Looking to the right of the screen it seems that everyone and his sister has had a stab at this one.

[oakroom48]

Haha!! Yup - regular family affair. I got rid of the headache with Aladdin's lamp ;)

[oakroom48]

ps: Thanks for commenting:)

[patjan92]

Great song, Barbara. Thanks.

[oakroom48]

My pleasure - thanks for commenting:)