It's Been a Long, Long Time ~ unreleased session recording

~ 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.

 

First Edition Summer 1992

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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