You Are Never Far Away

Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Allan Roberts 

Roncom Music ASCAP

 

Theme version recorded 1958 ~

 

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra 

and The Ray Charles Singers

 

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A , 155 E. 24th Street, New York City

Recording Time :35 seconds

 

Recorded March 12, 1958, Matrix No. J2PB-2061 Take 1

 

SESSION MUSICIANS & CHORAL

March 12, 1958 

A&R Joe Reisman

 

Orchestra

 

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

 

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind 

Sax ~ Wolffe Taninbaum 

Sax ~ Stanley Webb 

 

Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow 

Trumpet ~ James Milazzo 

Trumpet ~ Louis Oles 

Trumpet ~ Malven Soloman 

 

Trombone ~ Robert Byrne 

Trombone ~ John D'agostino 

Trombone ~ Thomas Mitchell 

 

French Horn ~ Fred Klein 

French Horn ~ John Barrows

 

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman 

Violin ~ Jack Zayde 

Violin ~ Raoul Poliakin 

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos 

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff 

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz  

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff 

Violin ~ Max Hollander 

Violin ~ Maurice Hershaft 

Violin ~ Samuel Rand 

Violin ~ Harry Glickman 

Violin ~ Harry Urbont 

 

Viola ~ Isadore Zir 

Viola ~ Howard Kay 

Viola ~ Leon Frengut 

Viola ~ Soloman Deutsch 

 

Cello ~ Maurice Brown 

Cello ~ Lucien Schmit 

Cello ~ Harvey Shapiro

Cello ~ Abram Borodkin

 

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

 

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola

Guitar ~ Danny Perri 

 

Drums ~ Ted Sommer 

Drums ~ Philip Kraus

 

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

 

Harp ~ Gloria Agostini

 

Choral

 

Contractor: Ray Charles 

 

EXACT LINE-UP UNIDENTIFIED

 

Trudy Packer 

Sue Singleton

Carla Houston 

Joyce De Young 

Anne Ryan McCord

Bernice Massi 

 

Alan Sokoloff 

James Stuart 

Jack Brown 

Robert Harris 

James Stover 

Robert Spiro

Herbert Davidson 

Robert Hartman 

David Vogel 

Leonard Stea  

 

7½" IPS HALF-TRACK "Saturday Night With Mr. C." CPS-153 STEREO ORTHOPHONIC TAPE JULY 1958

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Saturday Night With Mr. C." LOP / LSO-1004 MONO / STEREO MAY / JULY 1958

Album issue: RCA-UK-LP12 "Dear Perry" RD-27078 MONAURAL 1959

Album issue: Camden-LP12 "You Are Never Far Away" CAS-2201(e) ELECTRONIC STEREO 1968

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Just For You" DPL1-0513 STEREO 1975

Album issue: KELO MUSIC-LP12 "Perry Como" K-TEL NC-503 MONO 1977

Album issue: RCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS-LP12 "The Greatest Hits of Perry Como" DVL2-0362 MONO 1979

 

 

| Album Notes | Session | Digital Finder | 1952 full lyrics version | 1961 Theme | 1970 Theme | 1980 Theme |

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

has commented that he might one day record the full version, and so it was

with considerable surprise that the full version emerged in 1993.

 

Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra 

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A , 155 E. 24th Street, New York City

Recorded March 12, 1958

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