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    • Long Ago and Far Away is an album by American singer Tony Bennett, released by Columbia Records in 1958.
    It features a mixture of slow ballads with a few slightly jazzy songs including "It Could Happen to You", "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)", "Long Ago (and Far Away)", and "The Way You Look Tonight".
    On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.


    Reception



    Giving it four stars to indicate "strong sales potential", Billboard described the album as "a fine mood album"
    Cashbox said Bennett "plays a wistful tune on some of the finest wistful melodies ever written.


    Track listing


    "It Could Happen to You" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 2:50
    "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 3:13
    "Long Ago and Far Away" (Kern, Gershwin) – 2:55
    "It Amazes Me" (Coleman, Leigh) – 3:27
    "The Way You Look Tonight" (Kern, Fields) – 3:08
    "Be Careful, It's My Heart" (Berlin) – 2:15
    "My Foolish Heart" (Washington, Young) – 3:09
    "Time After Time" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:55
    "Fools Rush In" (Mercer, Bloom) – 2:09
    "A Cottage for Sale" (Robison, Conley) – 3:04
    "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:32
    "So Far" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) – 3:41
    Recorded on April 7 (#1, 5, 7), April 8 (#2, 11–12) and April 9 (#3–4, 6, 8–10), 1958.


    Personnel


    Tony Bennett – vocals
    Ralph Sharon – piano
    Herbie Mann – flute
    Robert Bai – guitar
    George Van Eps – guitar
    Catherine Gotthoffe – harp
    Dorothy Remsen – harp
    Frank Flynn – vibes
    Buddy Clark – double bass
    Larry Bunker – drums
    William Exiner – drums
    Frank De Vol – conductor


    = Strings

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    Armond Kaproff (#1, 5, 7), Edgar Lustgarten (#1–2, 5, 7, 11–12), Raphael Kremer – violoncello
    Israel Baker, Robert Barene, Sam Freed, Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Mort Herbert, Dan Lube, William Miller, Lou Raderman, Ambrose Russe, Albert Saparoff, Eudice Shapiro, David Frisina (#2, 11–12), Anatol Kaminsky (#2, 3–4, 6, 8–12) Paul Lowenkron (#2, 3–4, 6, 8–12), Victor Arno (#3–4, 6, 8–10) – violin
    Norman Botnick (#2, 3–4, 6, 8–12), G. R. Menhennick (#3–4, 6, 8–10), Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Joseph Reilich, Milton Thomas – viola


    References

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