Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A track from the Reader's Digest 10-LP album, "Magical Melodies for Listening, Dancing, Relaxing, Dining" issued in 1969.
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"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the 1944 Technicolor film musical _Cover Girl_ starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly.
The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but lost out to “Swinging on a Star”, from _Going My Way_.
The song was published in 1944 and sold over 600,000 copies in sheet music in a year.
In 2004 it finished #92 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
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Robert Mandell (22 August 1929 – 25 April 2020) was an American-born British-based conductor. He conducted family and children's concerts, and stage musicals.
Michael William Sammes[1] (19 February 1928 – 19 May 2001)[2] was an English musician and vocal session arranger, performing backing vocals (mostly with his mixed voice choir The Mike Sammes Singers) on many pop music tracks recorded in the UK from 1955 into the 1970s.
According to Spencer Leigh, he sang on more chart successes than any other performer.
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The vinyl LP was played on a Pro-Ject turntable, recorded directly to computer using a NAD digital pre-amp and VinylStudio software then processed to CD-quality using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a vinyl LP takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish.
One side of a six-track-per-side LP therefore takes around ninety minutes to create.
A track from the Reader's Digest 10-LP album, "Magical Melodies for Listening, Dancing, Relaxing, Dining" issued in 1969.
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"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the 1944 Technicolor film musical _Cover Girl_ starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly.
The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but lost out to “Swinging on a Star”, from _Going My Way_.
The song was published in 1944 and sold over 600,000 copies in sheet music in a year.
In 2004 it finished #92 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
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Robert Mandell (22 August 1929 – 25 April 2020) was an American-born British-based conductor. He conducted family and children's concerts, and stage musicals.
Michael William Sammes[1] (19 February 1928 – 19 May 2001)[2] was an English musician and vocal session arranger, performing backing vocals (mostly with his mixed voice choir The Mike Sammes Singers) on many pop music tracks recorded in the UK from 1955 into the 1970s.
According to Spencer Leigh, he sang on more chart successes than any other performer.
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The vinyl LP was played on a Pro-Ject turntable, recorded directly to computer using a NAD digital pre-amp and VinylStudio software then processed to CD-quality using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a vinyl LP takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish.
One side of a six-track-per-side LP therefore takes around ninety minutes to create.
