Track Title: Long Ago (and Far Away) Album Title: At the Movies, 60 Great Jazz Classics (disc 3) Prime Artist: Art Pepper Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin (b. Israel Gershvin) Music by: Jerome Kern (J. David K.) From the Film: Cover Girl 1944 (M) Lyrics: INSTRUMENTAL VERSION Long Ago (And Far Away) Sung by Jo Stafford Words by Ira Gershwin and Music by Jerome Kern Charted at # 6 in 1944 Cover versions that same year by Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes (#2), Bing Crosby (#5), Perry Como (#8), Guy Lombardo (#11), and The Three Suns (#16) sung in the movie "Cover Girl" by Nan Wynn dubbing for Rita Hayworth Long ago and far away, I dreamed a dream one day And now that dream is here beside me Long the skies were overcast but now the clouds have passed You're here at last Chills run up and down my spine, Aladdin's lamp is mine The dream I dreamed was not denied me Just one look and then I knew That all I longed for long ago was you {music break} Chills run up and down my spine, Aladdin's lamp is mine The dream I dreamed was not denied me Just one look and then I knew That all I longed for long ago was you |