LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

DICK HAYMES & HELEN FORREST

SONGWRITERS: JEROME KERN & IRA GERSHWIN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

LABEL: MCA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1983

"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and released by Columbia Pictures. The music was written by Jerome Kern, and the lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but lost out to “Swinging on a Star”. 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.

In the film it is sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears) to Gene Kelly, and later briefly reprised by Jinx Falkenburg. Charting versions were recorded almost simultaneously by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, and Perry Como.

The Dick Haymes-Helen Forrest recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 23317. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on April 27, 1944 and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.

[Her]

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

[Him]

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

[Her]

Just one look and then I knew

[Him, with her humming along]

That all I longed for long ago

[Both)]

Was you..

CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO

GLENN MILLER

SONGWRITERS: Harry Warren & Mack Gordon

MOVIE: SUN VALLEY SERENADE ,1941

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO

LABEL: RCAVICTOR

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1941

"Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally  recorded as a big-band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in  the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. It is the first ever song to receive a a gold record, presented by RCA Victor in 1942 for sales of 1.2 million copies.

Hi there, Tex, what you say?

Step aside partner, it´s my day

Bend an ear and listen to my version

Of a really solid Tenesse excursion

Pardon me, boy

Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?

Track twenty-nine

Boy, you can gimme a shine

Can you afford

To board a Chattanooga choo choo

I've got my fare

And just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four

Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore

Dinner in the diner

Nothing could be finer

Than to have your ham an' eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar

Then you know that Tennessee is not very far

Shovel all the coal in

Gotta keep it rollin'

Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

There's gonna be

A certain party at the station

Satin and lace

I used to call "funny face"

She's gonna cry

Until I tell her that I'll never roam

So Chattanooga choo choo

Won't you choo-choo me home?

Chattanooga choo choo

Won't you choo-choo me home?

CIVILIZATION

(BONGO BONGO BONGO)

ANDREWS SISTERS & DANNY KAYE

SONGWRITERS: BOB HILLIARD & CARL SIGMAN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: FALLOUT 3

LABEL: BETHESDA SOFTWORKS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1948

"Civilization" is an American pre-pop song. It was written by Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman, published in 1947 later included in the 1947 Broadway musical Angel in the Wings, sung by Elaine Stritch. The song is sometimes also known as "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo (I Don't Want to Leave the Congo)" from its first line of the chorus. The sheet music gives the title as "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)".

Each morning, a missionary

advertises neon sign

He tells the native population

that civilization is fine

And three educated savages holler from a bamboo tree

That civilization is a thing for me to see

So bongo, bongo, bongo,

I don't wanna leave the Congo

Oh no no no no no

Bingle, bangle, bungle,

I'm so happy in the jungle

I refuse to go

Don't want no bright lights,

false teeth, doorbells, landlords,

I make it clear

That no matter how they coax him,

I'll stay right here

I looked through a magazine

the missionary's wife concealed

(Magazine? What happens?)

I see how people who are civilized

bung you with automobile

(You know you can get hurt

that way Daniel?)

At the movies they have got to pay

many coconuts to see

(What do they see, Darling?)

Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel

takes of me

So bongo, bongo, bongo,

he don't wanna leave the Congo

Oh no no no no no

Bingo, bangle, bungle,

he's so happy in the jungle

He refuse to go

Don't want no penthouse,

bathtub, streetcars, taxis, noise in my ear

So, no matter how they coax him,

I'll stay right here

They hurry like savages

to get aboard an iron train

And though it's smokey and it's crowded,

they're too civilized to complain

When they've got two weeks’ vacation,

they hurry to vacation ground

(What do they do, Darling?)

They swim and they fish,

but that's what I do all year round

So bongo, bongo, bongo,

I don't wanna leave the Congo

Oh no no no no no

Bingo, bangle, bungle,

I'm so happy in the jungle

I refuse to go

Don't want no jailhouse,

shotgun, fish-hooks, golf clubs

I got my spears

So, no matter how they coax him,

I'll stay right here

They have things like the atom bomb,

so I think I'll stay where I "ahm"

Civilization, I'll stay right here!

JURA-ME

OSNY SILVA

COMPOSITOR: MARIA GREVER

VERSÃO: OSWALDO SANTIAGO

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: BANDOLINS AO LUAR

GRAVADORA: REVIVENDO

GÊNERO: TANGO

ANO: 1996

Osny Rufino da Silva Gomes(São Paulo, 21 de outubro de 1919 – Praia Grande, 20 de julho de 1995) foi um cantor, compositor e locutor brasileiro.

Oriundo de família humilde (seus pais eram uma governanta e um motorista), Osny nasceu na cidade de São Paulo. Fez o ginásio no Liceu Coração de Jesus e tomou parte no coral Canarinhos Liceanos. Teve aulas particulares de piano e violino. Quando tinha dezesseis anos, seu pai o encaminhou para o serviço militar, como corretivo da vida irrequieta que levava.

Começou no rádio em 1939, como operador na Rádio Educadora (atual Rádio Gazeta). Então tentou ser cantor. Submeteu-se a testes de calouros numa outra emissora, ao lado de Nelson Gonçalves, mas ambos foram reprovados. Todavia, na própria Educadora, viria a substituir um cantor numa emergência e, agradando, obteve outras oportunidades, mas não recebia cachê pela atividade extra.

Todos dizem que é mentira que eu te quero

Porque nunca me haviam visto enamorado

Eu te juro que eu mesmo não compreendo

A razão do meu viver apaixonado

Se estou perto de ti estou contente

Se estou só sinto minh'alma abandonada

Tenho ciúmes até do pensamento

Que possa recordar-te outra pessoa amada

Jura-me nem que passe muito tempo

Lembrarás sempre o momento

Em que eu te conheci

Olha-me com este olhar profundo

Que é a coisa neste mundo

Mais bonita que já vi

Beija-me com um beijo apaixonado

Como nunca foi beijado

Desde o dia em que nasci

Ama-me, ama-me até a loucura

E assim verás a amargura

Que estou sofrendo por ti.