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A track from the CD compilation "Matt Monro Sings", released in 1991.
Matt Monro recorded this version of the song in 1962 for his album _Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael_ released by Parlophone.
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Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons; 1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer.
Known as "The Man with the Golden Voice" and the "British Sinatra," he performed internationally during his 30-year career and sold a reported 23 million records.
AllMusic has described Monro as "one of the most underrated pop vocalists of the '60s", who "possessed the easiest, most perfect baritone in the business".
Frank Sinatra said of Monro after his death: "If I had to choose three of the finest male vocalists in the singing business, Matt would be one of them. His pitch was right on the nose; his word enunciations letter perfect; his understanding of a song thorough."
Monro's recordings include the UK top 10 hits "Portrait of My Love", "My Kind of Girl", "Softly As I Leave You", "Walk Away", and a cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday". He also recorded several film themes such as "From Russia with Love" for the eponymous James Bond film, "Born Free" for the eponymous film, and "On Days Like These" for The Italian Job.
A vast amount of information may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Monro
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed 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 CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
A track from the CD compilation "Matt Monro Sings", released in 1991.
Matt Monro recorded this version of the song in 1962 for his album _Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael_ released by Parlophone.
___________________________________________
Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons; 1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer.
Known as "The Man with the Golden Voice" and the "British Sinatra," he performed internationally during his 30-year career and sold a reported 23 million records.
AllMusic has described Monro as "one of the most underrated pop vocalists of the '60s", who "possessed the easiest, most perfect baritone in the business".
Frank Sinatra said of Monro after his death: "If I had to choose three of the finest male vocalists in the singing business, Matt would be one of them. His pitch was right on the nose; his word enunciations letter perfect; his understanding of a song thorough."
Monro's recordings include the UK top 10 hits "Portrait of My Love", "My Kind of Girl", "Softly As I Leave You", "Walk Away", and a cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday". He also recorded several film themes such as "From Russia with Love" for the eponymous James Bond film, "Born Free" for the eponymous film, and "On Days Like These" for The Italian Job.
A vast amount of information may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Monro
___________________________________________
This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed 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 CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.




![Long Ago (And Far Away), by Robert Mandell & the Mike Sammes Singers.
A track from the Readers Digest 10-LP album, Magical Melodies for Listening, Dancing, Relaxing, Dining issued in 1969.
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 AFIs 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
Robert Mandell (22 August 1929 – 25 April 2020) was an American-born British-based conductor. He conducted family and childrens 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.
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. Long Ago (And Far Away), by Robert Mandell & the Mike Sammes Singers.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GQOfV4XrykY/mqdefault.jpg)





