It's Been a Long, Long Time

~ featured in the Motion Picture Musical "I'll Get By"

Music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn , 1945

E.H. Morris & Co. Inc.

With "Como's Little Combo" a section of Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio 2, 155 East 24th Street, New York City

A&R Producer: Ed O. Welker

Recording Engineer: not listed

Recording Time 1:55

Recorded June 18th, 1956 ~ Matrix No. G2PB 5655 Take 3 & 4 ( Comp. )

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

Guitar ~ Danny Perri

Electric Guitar ~ Anthony "Tony" Mottola

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

Drums ~ Terry Snyder

Tenor Sax ~ Abraham Richman

Trumpet ~ James Maxwell

NOT RELEASED

This song was recorded in June of 1956 as one of five tracks during an early session for what would become Perry's September 1957 RCA Victor pop album release "We Get Letters" . Only three songs from this session were eventually used in the album with other tracks recorded in February of 1957. Of the two unreleased songs, only one was released in later years within an RCA Camden compilation. This song is not known to have been released at any time. ( see unreleased listings within the album link )

This song, composed in 1945, had great meaning to returning service personnel and their loved ones at the conclusion of World War II. Fourteen weeks on "Your Hit Parade," five times as # 1, it hap top-of-the-chart records by Bing Crosby, with Les Paul's Trio ( Decca ) and Harry James, with vocal by Kitty Kallen ( Columbia ). It was also heard in the motion picture musical "I'll Get By", a re-make of "Tin Pan Alley," 1950.